Does this work outside the US? I've tried to get a TIVO for my parents in Europe, but I could not find any, except with a Sky package. What are others using?
I listened to this set of lectures on the History of Science and thought that I'd probably be some kind of priest, predicting solar eclipses and calculating best paths for Aequaducts etc.
But thinking about it, I found that I'd probably be way too stupid for it - you can't simulate anything. Pretty amazing what these folks did.
It looks promising, but I have not started yet (mainly because the landlord does not appreciate foundry equipment in the appartment).
Their catalog is really cool, they have reprints of documents from 1900, 1800 and before, all obsolete by now, of course, but that's how the Golden Gate and the Titanic were built.
They also have an electrical section, for example, how to make an analog amplifier in a Jar from a speaker and a carbon microphone. Really neat stuff, and I wish I could tinker with it some more.
I understand that in some types of backbone network connections, a pair of Atomic Clocks is synchronized, then one is sent to each end of the connection.
Will it be possible to run these connections at a higher speed with more accurate clocks?
in the 1970's there was a lot of research on Pneumatic Computing. I read a book about that a while back (can't remember the title).
Essentially it worked the same way, plus they had a little "Transistor" where a big airstream would be disturbed if a small control airstream is on.
Obvious advantages of that technology:
- You only need to be able to cut sheetmetal and weld it together
- Not affected by X-Rays unless you melt it (think MAD/Nukes)
- Probably no cooling problems (not sure about this)
I don't think so. I do think the Hospital will be forced to set the max hourly pay rather high.
I understand that currently there are not enough nurses, so, with a system like this one, undesirable shifts will go unfilled or pay will go up (because nobody wants to work certain time slots).
Once pay is (way) up, it hopefully creates enough incentive for more people to study nursing, etc.
A free market with a well trained and (reasonably) flexible work force should be able to work well like that.
One concern I have is that if large parts of the work market use this kind of system, it may possibly amplify boom/bust cycles, because in boom times everyone can ask whatever the market would bear and spend the money, and in bust cycles salaries are decreasing significantly, spending also, deepening the bust cycle. On the other hand, unemployment may be spread out flater (unemployment rate does not go up, but everyone works 1 hour less per week).
CNN Article: As of July 30, there were 17,471 people nationwide waiting for a liver transplant. Last year, 5,671 liver transplants were performed in the country.
Every year there are about 45'0000 deaths from Car accidents alone.
If more people would be registered, that waiting list would shorten dramatically in a year or two, and this guy would not have had to do this to stay alive.
Or do you have other plans for your organs after you are dead?
Interesting enough, when Newton died (after inventing Calculus, general gravity and all that other stuff), he said his greatest achievement in his live was total abstinence.
Economists think that in general, Employees are paid based on their productivity.
If you create lots of value, you get lots of money, if you create less, you get less. On average that must be pretty close to reality, because if you get paid more than what you create, your average company would go bust right away.
Now, if you get "Perks" like Gym, free food etc, that's still coming from your total compensation, and on average just makes your paycheck smaller. That's true for Perks as well as "Free" insurance, Social Security and all the other things that "the employer pays for". If the Employer does not pay for it, you would get that money.
IANAE (I am not an economist)
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It's not really wallpaper, it's a thin sheet of Kapton (1/10th of a millimeter). You can see trough that, so you can paste it on windows, and you can also put it under the carpet and in the crawl space above you.
But I think you are right, people who want security won't use Computers:)
I think one of the major problems in this discussion is that the Stock Options for the CEO types (equivalent of about 1000 employees options, if you count them) can cause wrong and fraudulent reporting in order to sell off the stock.
Individual Employee's options are a great way to retain employees, keeping them motivated and having them think big picture, but they just can't fake the bottom line.
Depends. The company can of course buy stock from the market, trough a buy back program. That allows them to give covered options at very little cost, without any dilution of the stock that is out there.
That probably exists in every country. I doubt for example that US Schoolchildren are taught that from ~1900 to ~1940 Euthanasia fairs where held in the US, and "inferior" people (some voluntarely, some, with mental diseases, involuntarely) would remove themselfs from the Genepool in order to better the average of the US. This was by means of Castration or voluntary abstinence. It seems to have worked since it only rarely gets mentioned (affected people are now dead and have of course left no kids.
I understand this was a reaction to Darwin (survival of the Fittest) and Medicine (we can make you survive even if you are not so fit). People thought it was the right thing to do.
Various believes that are now known to be false have been followed. For example, "criminal properties" where "Inherited", and so criminals often ended up in the "non-voluntary" category. Also, poor people and racial minorities have been affected.
Naturally, the US does not suppress this information. But it's also not pounding it into every schoolchilds head. I believe that happens only in Germany now, with mixed results.
It has some 900 words and sentences in Spanish, English and German with audio, and you can go any way you would like to go (Spanish->German, English->Spanish, or whatever).
It has many more Languages that have only written content and no audio.
It's XML based, so you can add your own content, and it uses OGG Vorbis for sound encoding (so it does not use patented stuff). It has various modes to learn, to test yourself and to practice as well as plugin capabilies.
It comes in.tar.gz, RPM and DEB flavours. And you can download only the.ogg files if you like, or the wav files, mp3 them and put them on your IPod.
(sorry for the redundant post, but this one is better.)
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Does this work outside the US? I've tried to get a TIVO for my parents in Europe, but I could not find any, except with a Sky package.
What are others using?
But thinking about it, I found that I'd probably be way too stupid for it - you can't simulate anything. Pretty amazing what these folks did.
It looks promising, but I have not started yet (mainly because the landlord does not appreciate foundry equipment in the appartment).
Their catalog is really cool, they have reprints of documents from 1900, 1800 and before, all obsolete by now, of course, but that's how the Golden Gate and the Titanic were built.
They also have an electrical section, for example, how to make an analog amplifier in a Jar from a speaker and a carbon microphone. Really neat stuff, and I wish I could tinker with it some more.
According to this slide the Affero GPL is a prototype.
I understand that in some types of backbone network connections, a pair of Atomic Clocks is synchronized, then one is sent to each end of the connection.
Will it be possible to run these connections at a higher speed with more accurate clocks?
make a very loud noise if you try to listen to something while swimming. And it does not matter if you wear earplugs or not.
Does this solve this problem as well, or will I hear a second of bubbles followed by a second of "expected" sound?
in the 1970's there was a lot of research on Pneumatic Computing. I read a book about that a while back (can't remember the title).
Essentially it worked the same way, plus they had a little "Transistor" where a big airstream would be disturbed if a small control airstream is on.
Obvious advantages of that technology:
- You only need to be able to cut sheetmetal and weld it together
- Not affected by X-Rays unless you melt it (think MAD/Nukes)
- Probably no cooling problems (not sure about this)
Of course, it'd be also very slow. And big.
I don't think so. I do think the Hospital will be forced to set the max hourly pay rather high.
I understand that currently there are not enough nurses, so, with a system like this one, undesirable shifts will go unfilled or pay will go up (because nobody wants to work certain time slots).
Once pay is (way) up, it hopefully creates enough incentive for more people to study nursing, etc.
A free market with a well trained and (reasonably) flexible work force should be able to work well like that.
One concern I have is that if large parts of the work market use this kind of system, it may possibly amplify boom/bust cycles, because in boom times everyone can ask whatever the market would bear and spend the money, and in bust cycles salaries are decreasing significantly, spending also, deepening the bust cycle.
On the other hand, unemployment may be spread out flater (unemployment rate does not go up, but everyone works 1 hour less per week).
Every year there are about 45'0000 deaths from Car accidents alone.
Are you a registered Organ Donor?
If more people would be registered, that waiting list would shorten dramatically in a year or two, and this guy would not have had to do this to stay alive.
Or do you have other plans for your organs after you are dead?
If it can be taken down in pieces, like avalanches are, it won't be so destructive.
Should not be too expensive to send some mining experts who'll blow it into small pieces which individually have not much effect.
These are probably machines that do things like take X-Rays, analyze chemicals and other things like that.
Now, of course you'd want those things to be on the network, so that you can email data back and forth.
If these devices go down, it's bad, but it does not kill anyone right away - they are not for firefighting type operations.
I doubt very much that heart-lung type machines are windows and networked. That'd be very stupid.
Just because it's in the Hospital does not mean that it's a "pull the cable and patient is dead" type machine.
Interesting enough, when Newton died (after inventing Calculus, general gravity and all that other stuff), he said his greatest achievement in his live was total abstinence.
Economists think that in general, Employees are paid based on their productivity.
If you create lots of value, you get lots of money, if you create less, you get less. On average that must be pretty close to reality, because if you get paid more than what you create, your average company would go bust right away.
Now, if you get "Perks" like Gym, free food etc, that's still coming from your total compensation, and on average just makes your paycheck smaller. That's true for Perks as well as "Free" insurance, Social Security and all the other things that "the employer pays for". If the Employer does not pay for it, you would get that money.
IANAE (I am not an economist)
It's not really wallpaper, it's a thin sheet of Kapton (1/10th of a millimeter). You can see trough that, so you can paste it on windows, and you can also put it under the carpet and in the crawl space above you.
:)
But I think you are right, people who want security won't use Computers
If you turn it into "block" mode, it will block all frequencies, so your Cell won't work either. Of course, you could get that effect with tin foil :)
This is really cool technology, and pretty simple, too.
If you have the version with Diodes, it blocks 2.4, 5 and 6 frequencies by default.
If you run a current trough the diodes, it'll work like a sheet of copper and block pretty much everything.
But it will have to come down in price before I coat my house with it, it's more than $100 per square foot.
Penguin Computing does this kind of stuff for a living. I think they are an all open source shop, too... There may be others, too.
If you look at the medic view it predicts that the Soldier will drink a small amount of Water in about a minute. I wonder how they do that?
What version did you listen to? I can't seem to find any version with these words. Just "Patriotic" versions.
I think one of the major problems in this discussion is that the Stock Options for the CEO types (equivalent of about 1000 employees options, if you count them) can cause wrong and fraudulent reporting in order to sell off the stock.
Individual Employee's options are a great way to retain employees, keeping them motivated and having them think big picture, but they just can't fake the bottom line.
And guess who's options would definitely go away?
Depends. The company can of course buy stock from the market, trough a buy back program. That allows them to give covered options at very little cost, without any dilution of the stock that is out there.
I understand this Censorship is worth mentioning because the Press was doing it in coordination with the govenment -- voluntarely.
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That's why it is often mentioned.
http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol46no3/article
That's different from a gag-order.
That probably exists in every country. I doubt for example that US Schoolchildren are taught that from ~1900 to ~1940 Euthanasia fairs where held in the US, and "inferior" people (some voluntarely, some, with mental diseases, involuntarely) would remove themselfs from the Genepool in order to better the average of the US. This was by means of Castration or voluntary abstinence. It seems to have worked since it only rarely gets mentioned (affected people are now dead and have of course left no kids.
I understand this was a reaction to Darwin (survival of the Fittest) and Medicine (we can make you survive even if you are not so fit). People thought it was the right thing to do.
Various believes that are now known to be false have been followed. For example, "criminal properties" where "Inherited", and so criminals often ended up in the "non-voluntary" category. Also, poor people and racial minorities have been affected.
Naturally, the US does not suppress this information. But it's also not pounding it into every schoolchilds head. I believe that happens only in Germany now, with mixed results.
It has some 900 words and sentences in Spanish, English and German with audio, and you can go any way you would like to go (Spanish->German, English->Spanish, or whatever).
It has many more Languages that have only written content and no audio.
It's XML based, so you can add your own content, and it uses OGG Vorbis for sound encoding (so it does not use patented stuff). It has various modes to learn, to test yourself and to practice as well as plugin capabilies.
It comes in
(sorry for the redundant post, but this one is better.)
Try lingoteach.org.
GPL language teaching, with audio and all. And it does 900 words of spanish. And some German and others.