The Act only applies to the US though. Many places you can host an exchange. Never heard of tradehill though, so can't tell where they were based.
One of the nice things about bitcoin is that there are no real borders for it. You can trade on any exchange in the world, and use the currencty anywhere without restrictions (so a bit like cash, but without limits on how much you can take out the country, or currency conversion fees, etc...).
Probably because he wasn't deported from a western country? He was deported from one Muslim country (Malaysia) to another (Saudi Arabia). AFAIK Malaysia is very friendly with Saudi Arabia, so it's no surprise they deported the guy back as soon as they could.
Interesting, My rate here was 13p/kwh, now gone up to 16kw/h. My friend who lives down in Toulouse gets 3-5p/kwh. That is a huge difference to me, and I've seen his bill, he wasn't lying. Needless to say I am going to shift one of my computation servers down there for stuff like BOINC etc... and pay him the difference, works out better for me. Quite frankly if he had better internet speeds I'd probably shift all my other servers there too.
I guess it depends on where you live, perhaps if he lived in Paris, or I lived in a smaller UK city, it would be similar. Where in the UK do you currently live (if I may ask)? How much is your power bill?
I just judge it based on my experiences (In London, mostly), which is that the majority of the public is anti-nuclear (and with crazy views on some of it) and the politicians are quite frankly ignoring them and pressing on with nuclear. I can't tell you how many people complained to me about how we are using nuclear power, and the government refuses to change its policy on them, etc, etc...
Much as I don't like the idea of politicians not listening to the masses and doing what they want, I realise that if they didn't do anything we'd have brownouts sometime in the next half-century.
Agreed that the Brits are somewhat more level headed in this then the Germans and Austrians, but I get the impression that is less to do with the people then it is with the leaders not pandering to "social wave du jour" as you succinctly put it:)
Yeah, but since Fukushima they have changed their policy to strictly non-nuclear, and will be shutting down their nuke plants, at which point they will be in an energy deficit.
This is all supposed to be done by 2020, so we'll see what happens then (politicians are big on grand gestures, more-so if they are not in office when they are supposed to be implemented).
Strange world of electricity markets. Sometimes it is better to sell your electricity and buy someone else's, even if you don't have a deficit.
The idea being the the South makes money from them by taking on the risk (perceived or otherwise) of running them in their backyard. Either in increased employment (so local growth) or increased tax revenue for the county, or cheaper electricity for the locals.
Just like France makes good money selling electricity to the UK and Germany (as those two countries have somewhat of a nuclear-phobia, that seems to be increasing). The electricity prices in France are 10% of what I pay in the UK, and I'm on a cheap UK tariff provided by a French electricity company! I'm sure the money goes somewhere...
Then again, I'm not a hardcore gamer, so I guess it all depends on what you want out of a game. The above have given me hours and hours of fun, despite the low-end graphics (indeed I quite like the low end graphics, allows me to play on my phone, or on other underpowered machines, no need for big gaming rig).
Well, considering how hard they are pushing for RFID to be built into every phone as a form of contactless payment (also gets rid of cash, which they love as an idea), we'll be pretty much there in a few years. A mobile phone has become so much part of modern life that many people will still use them, no matter what tracking you stick into them.
Wouldn't surprise me if in a few years they can track everyone with a mobile phone via rfid, and perhaps even get to read their bank balance to see how good a potential customer they could be...
I thought you might be a user at least, and therefore would have some insight on navigating the site for someone just joining. No problem though, thanks for responding:)
Preferably something with an actual usable interface, and not something I want as little to with as possible.;)
Snarkiness aside, I am aware of thingiverse, I just don't like the interface and layout of the website, especially as it does not seem to have a concept of categories. Or if it does I can't find where in the mess of an UI. Navigating the site is an exercise in futility.
unless someone gets a car, takes it apart, turn all components into 3d models and assemblies, and sends those CAD files away to be made by a CNC company.
What is wrong with that method? A lot of replica kit cars (like Lancia, Lamborghini's and Ferrari's) are done by buying (or if you're cheeky, renting) the car you want to replicate, strip it into parts, copy the components into 3D models (and reassemble & return the car if rented/borrowed).
You then use the 3D models to fabricate the parts again. In the case of some kit cars (like the Lancia Stratos) the parts are 100% interchangeable with the original. In other cases the 3D models are adapted to fit a more common car (e.g. Ferrari F355 kit on a Toyota MR2 body).
Interestingly I've not heard much about these kit car manufacturers being shut down, despite the cars being sold for profit and in many cases this has been done for decades. It seems that its legal to reverse engineer cars (or at least nobody has bothered to set precedent against).
Actually I was thinking about that recently when I got my first car. It's old, over 30 years. It's getting to the point where even scrapyards don't have the parts anymore.
A lot of the parts that have broken on it are little ABS plastic thingies, things like plastic mounts for switches, little cogs for opening the heater vents, knobs, etc...
All this is well within the range of the current generation of 3D printers (and I'm sure things will get better on the printer front).
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a single online repository where you could upload parts for others to use? That way it would reduce the effort required in maintaining/upgrading older cars. I can tell you that I'm reaching the point when I've started hand making replacement parts from plexiglass and a dremel. A 3D printer would be a godsend (and when I save up enough I'll probably buy a reprap just for this purpose).
People could even improve on the designs, allowing for even more customisation of their cars.
The metal parts of the car you can't print at the moment, but that's ok, generally any good machine shop will be able to do those parts for you anyway, plus those seem to be the most hard wearing.
What do you think guys? Any site like this out there? Perhaps we should make one?
The old eDonkey, gnutella, gnutella2 etc... networks before Bittorrent are fully distributed. The downside (and why people moved to Bittorrent et all) is because searching was slow (no central index) and because the media companies, unable to shut down the networks or the uploaders, resorted to flooding the networks with bogus mp3 etc.. files (as well as all manner of viruses uploaded by blackhats, and random exe's you'd have to be silly to download tbh).
However, hosting non-infringing content should be fine, and using URI's (i.e. magnet links) you can link to any file you want, it's availability only limited to number of seeders who keep it (which if it's popular, should be enough to sustain it).
Well, the guys at the register are trying (codename LOHAN). Ignoring the humor of it all they are trying to do something pretty cool. If they succeed in proving it as a platform I see no reason why others could not take their success and build on it to the point when we can launch stuff into space.
Don't pick a fight with people who buy bandwidth by the terabit? It's the closest analogy I can think of... (as in both cases, people who have a lot of influence will need lots of ink, or lots of bandwidth, to reach their audience).
And the Skin effect is only a problem at high frequencies (think microwave frequencies, 2+GHz). I think the 22Khz max we can hear will not be affected by things like skin effect.
Men who don't like the fact they can't join in? Or do we work on the pretext that every lesbian is actually secretly bi and up for a little 3-way action?
I'd love to know more about this! Always wanted to know how they connect multiple receivers together. Not just for low frequency em, but things like light etc... Do you know of any DIY projects that did something like this? Would make some nice Friday reading over here:)
I wonder if anyone wrote any OSS software to do the above. It would be cool!
Unfortunately I don't have a strong telephoto in my kit, as I have yet not needed to get one. Now the question is really, should I buy a telephoto (which I could use for other shots if needed) or should I buy a telescope. I will need to get one or the other it seems. A good telephoto will cost me a £few_hundred, so it would be good to know what kind of telescope I can get for the same money.
It is good to know you can resolve Jupiter like that! I'll have to try it when I have a go next time (be it with lens or telescope).
The main reason I wanted the stacking software is because while my SLR can do both high ISO and long exposures, high noise I don't like, and I'm limited in long-exposure to about 15 seconds max. Anything more and everything becomes blurred (due to the earths motion, I never realised how fast the earths movement is until I tried taking 30 second exposures of sky objects).
So my options are either: (a) buy a proper motorised equitorial mount or (b) take multiple higher-iso, shorter exposure shots, and stack them together.
Option (b) seemed like the cheaper option (plus I already have all the kit needed, apart from the software), hence my question. Is there any other way of taking long-exposure shots without needing a fancy mount? I don't know of any, but will admit that I'm still very new at this...
Nice! As someone who would really like to get into Astrophotography, you got any recommendations where to start? I already do photography (so I have a DSLR I can use) but not sure what would be a good starter telescope, and what else I'd need (what stacking software do you use? Is it OSS?).
I just downloaded the video using the "Flashgot" plugin for firefox. Alas, the video only says "This content is unavailable from your location", but I have the flv on my box right now. Try it yourself and see if it works (I presume you can view the actual videos).
wxglade works well with me, and being XML based can work with any language you want (and uses native widgets on all the OS'es, so it always looks well integrated). I use it with Python primarily, but it should work for anything (look on their site for officially supported languages).
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I use it all the time, for editing, for development, for general work, for writing my todo list today. Hell, I sometimes catch myself trying to use VI commands in my web browser, or other GUI programs.
It's actually come to replace all my other stuff, from IDE's to graphical text editors. I'm really happy with it!
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The Act only applies to the US though. Many places you can host an exchange. Never heard of tradehill though, so can't tell where they were based.
One of the nice things about bitcoin is that there are no real borders for it. You can trade on any exchange in the world, and use the currencty anywhere without restrictions (so a bit like cash, but without limits on how much you can take out the country, or currency conversion fees, etc...).
Sounds just like some of the financial trickery you hear about happening in the finance industry, doesn't it?
Probably because he wasn't deported from a western country? He was deported from one Muslim country (Malaysia) to another (Saudi Arabia). AFAIK Malaysia is very friendly with Saudi Arabia, so it's no surprise they deported the guy back as soon as they could.
Interesting, My rate here was 13p/kwh, now gone up to 16kw/h. My friend who lives down in Toulouse gets 3-5p/kwh. That is a huge difference to me, and I've seen his bill, he wasn't lying. Needless to say I am going to shift one of my computation servers down there for stuff like BOINC etc... and pay him the difference, works out better for me. Quite frankly if he had better internet speeds I'd probably shift all my other servers there too.
I guess it depends on where you live, perhaps if he lived in Paris, or I lived in a smaller UK city, it would be similar. Where in the UK do you currently live (if I may ask)? How much is your power bill?
I just judge it based on my experiences (In London, mostly), which is that the majority of the public is anti-nuclear (and with crazy views on some of it) and the politicians are quite frankly ignoring them and pressing on with nuclear. I can't tell you how many people complained to me about how we are using nuclear power, and the government refuses to change its policy on them, etc, etc...
Much as I don't like the idea of politicians not listening to the masses and doing what they want, I realise that if they didn't do anything we'd have brownouts sometime in the next half-century.
Agreed that the Brits are somewhat more level headed in this then the Germans and Austrians, but I get the impression that is less to do with the people then it is with the leaders not pandering to "social wave du jour" as you succinctly put it :)
Yeah, but since Fukushima they have changed their policy to strictly non-nuclear, and will be shutting down their nuke plants, at which point they will be in an energy deficit. This is all supposed to be done by 2020, so we'll see what happens then (politicians are big on grand gestures, more-so if they are not in office when they are supposed to be implemented). Strange world of electricity markets. Sometimes it is better to sell your electricity and buy someone else's, even if you don't have a deficit.
The idea being the the South makes money from them by taking on the risk (perceived or otherwise) of running them in their backyard. Either in increased employment (so local growth) or increased tax revenue for the county, or cheaper electricity for the locals.
Just like France makes good money selling electricity to the UK and Germany (as those two countries have somewhat of a nuclear-phobia, that seems to be increasing). The electricity prices in France are 10% of what I pay in the UK, and I'm on a cheap UK tariff provided by a French electricity company! I'm sure the money goes somewhere...
I quite like Warzone2100 as a RTS
and Wormux (Worms 2 clone).
Then again, I'm not a hardcore gamer, so I guess it all depends on what you want out of a game. The above have given me hours and hours of fun, despite the low-end graphics (indeed I quite like the low end graphics, allows me to play on my phone, or on other underpowered machines, no need for big gaming rig).
Well, considering how hard they are pushing for RFID to be built into every phone as a form of contactless payment (also gets rid of cash, which they love as an idea), we'll be pretty much there in a few years. A mobile phone has become so much part of modern life that many people will still use them, no matter what tracking you stick into them.
Wouldn't surprise me if in a few years they can track everyone with a mobile phone via rfid, and perhaps even get to read their bank balance to see how good a potential customer they could be...
I thought you might be a user at least, and therefore would have some insight on navigating the site for someone just joining. No problem though, thanks for responding :)
Preferably something with an actual usable interface, and not something I want as little to with as possible. ;)
Snarkiness aside, I am aware of thingiverse, I just don't like the interface and layout of the website, especially as it does not seem to have a concept of categories. Or if it does I can't find where in the mess of an UI. Navigating the site is an exercise in futility.
Or am I missing something?
unless someone gets a car, takes it apart, turn all components into 3d models and assemblies, and sends those CAD files away to be made by a CNC company.
What is wrong with that method? A lot of replica kit cars (like Lancia, Lamborghini's and Ferrari's) are done by buying (or if you're cheeky, renting) the car you want to replicate, strip it into parts, copy the components into 3D models (and reassemble & return the car if rented/borrowed).
You then use the 3D models to fabricate the parts again. In the case of some kit cars (like the Lancia Stratos) the parts are 100% interchangeable with the original. In other cases the 3D models are adapted to fit a more common car (e.g. Ferrari F355 kit on a Toyota MR2 body).
Interestingly I've not heard much about these kit car manufacturers being shut down, despite the cars being sold for profit and in many cases this has been done for decades. It seems that its legal to reverse engineer cars (or at least nobody has bothered to set precedent against).
Actually I was thinking about that recently when I got my first car. It's old, over 30 years. It's getting to the point where even scrapyards don't have the parts anymore.
A lot of the parts that have broken on it are little ABS plastic thingies, things like plastic mounts for switches, little cogs for opening the heater vents, knobs, etc...
All this is well within the range of the current generation of 3D printers (and I'm sure things will get better on the printer front).
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a single online repository where you could upload parts for others to use? That way it would reduce the effort required in maintaining/upgrading older cars. I can tell you that I'm reaching the point when I've started hand making replacement parts from plexiglass and a dremel. A 3D printer would be a godsend (and when I save up enough I'll probably buy a reprap just for this purpose).
People could even improve on the designs, allowing for even more customisation of their cars.
The metal parts of the car you can't print at the moment, but that's ok, generally any good machine shop will be able to do those parts for you anyway, plus those seem to be the most hard wearing.
What do you think guys? Any site like this out there? Perhaps we should make one?
The old eDonkey, gnutella, gnutella2 etc... networks before Bittorrent are fully distributed. The downside (and why people moved to Bittorrent et all) is because searching was slow (no central index) and because the media companies, unable to shut down the networks or the uploaders, resorted to flooding the networks with bogus mp3 etc.. files (as well as all manner of viruses uploaded by blackhats, and random exe's you'd have to be silly to download tbh).
However, hosting non-infringing content should be fine, and using URI's (i.e. magnet links) you can link to any file you want, it's availability only limited to number of seeders who keep it (which if it's popular, should be enough to sustain it).
Well, the guys at the register are trying (codename LOHAN). Ignoring the humor of it all they are trying to do something pretty cool. If they succeed in proving it as a platform I see no reason why others could not take their success and build on it to the point when we can launch stuff into space.
Diaspora (https://joindiaspora.com/) comes to mind. Been a beta tester, and so far it's looking good.
Don't pick a fight with people who buy bandwidth by the terabit? It's the closest analogy I can think of... (as in both cases, people who have a lot of influence will need lots of ink, or lots of bandwidth, to reach their audience).
And the Skin effect is only a problem at high frequencies (think microwave frequencies, 2+GHz). I think the 22Khz max we can hear will not be affected by things like skin effect.
Men who don't like the fact they can't join in? Or do we work on the pretext that every lesbian is actually secretly bi and up for a little 3-way action?
I'd love to know more about this! Always wanted to know how they connect multiple receivers together. Not just for low frequency em, but things like light etc... Do you know of any DIY projects that did something like this? Would make some nice Friday reading over here :)
I wonder if anyone wrote any OSS software to do the above. It would be cool!
Hey, thanks for the response!
Unfortunately I don't have a strong telephoto in my kit, as I have yet not needed to get one. Now the question is really, should I buy a telephoto (which I could use for other shots if needed) or should I buy a telescope. I will need to get one or the other it seems. A good telephoto will cost me a £few_hundred, so it would be good to know what kind of telescope I can get for the same money.
It is good to know you can resolve Jupiter like that! I'll have to try it when I have a go next time (be it with lens or telescope).
The main reason I wanted the stacking software is because while my SLR can do both high ISO and long exposures, high noise I don't like, and I'm limited in long-exposure to about 15 seconds max. Anything more and everything becomes blurred (due to the earths motion, I never realised how fast the earths movement is until I tried taking 30 second exposures of sky objects).
So my options are either: (a) buy a proper motorised equitorial mount or (b) take multiple higher-iso, shorter exposure shots, and stack them together.
Option (b) seemed like the cheaper option (plus I already have all the kit needed, apart from the software), hence my question. Is there any other way of taking long-exposure shots without needing a fancy mount? I don't know of any, but will admit that I'm still very new at this...
Nice! As someone who would really like to get into Astrophotography, you got any recommendations where to start? I already do photography (so I have a DSLR I can use) but not sure what would be a good starter telescope, and what else I'd need (what stacking software do you use? Is it OSS?).
I just downloaded the video using the "Flashgot" plugin for firefox. Alas, the video only says "This content is unavailable from your location", but I have the flv on my box right now. Try it yourself and see if it works (I presume you can view the actual videos).
wxglade works well with me, and being XML based can work with any language you want (and uses native widgets on all the OS'es, so it always looks well integrated). I use it with Python primarily, but it should work for anything (look on their site for officially supported languages).
Have a look here if you're interested: http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/
I use it all the time, for editing, for development, for general work, for writing my todo list today. Hell, I sometimes catch myself trying to use VI commands in my web browser, or other GUI programs.
It's actually come to replace all my other stuff, from IDE's to graphical text editors. I'm really happy with it!