I have a solar powered Casio Data Bank watch. What it does is to charge the battery, which keeps the watch accurate. There's a small 3 bar charging/battery level indicator on it. Works very well, even under house lights.
Keep in mind that there are some solar panels that can be recycled. I'm collecting the small panels from solar garden lights that people throw away (mainly because the rechargeable batteries have died). They also contain a small circuit board, a light sensor and an LED. The circuit board has inputs and outputs for charging, (typically 3v) and illuminating. What's interesting for me though is that I'm going to get a few, connect them into series that will charge a battery, the output of which will be hooked to a large capacitor which in turn will be connected to an electric 'fence' to keep the snails away from my tomato plants during the night. If it works, then I'll patent it and become exceedingly wealthy on the sales. Back to the topic though, you could remount these mini panels into any kind of frame you want, folding or otherwise and charge a spare laptop battery. It would be cheap and fun to do especially if you're good with a soldering iron.
Jetsons (I was wrong with 1968), ran from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963. Looks like The Jetsons beat Star Trek by 4 years: The Original Series... debuted in the United States on NBC on September 8, 1966.
So unless Flash Gordon, Jet Jackson, Rocket Man or Superman had laptops then the Jetsons win hands down.
Utter Crud. In 1968 the Jetsons had laptops (back of cereal boxes) and that is about as close to it as it got. Maybe Kay was watching TV at the time.....
Agree. Google can't find anything unless there are links to it from an outside source. If the links are very few and you don't SEO on purpose, then it's hidden from Google eyes. In fact, I know websites that use this for anonymity.
Do you have anything as sophisticated as this? The Ministry for State Security, known as the Stasi, which acted as East Germany's secret police and intelligence agency throughout the Cold War, used odour recognition to keep tabs on potential dissidents.
They often collected the samples surreptitiously - breaking into homes to steal suspects' underwear, or by wiping down chairs used during interrogations.
So you have to co-ordinate between local, state, and federal agencies on election day.
If you mean do Australians vote for State and Federal governments on the same day? No. All GP is saying is that the Electoral Commission is responsible for counting votes for all levels of government, but not on the same day. It's an administrative department responsible for the bread-and-butter functionality of everything to do with elections from registering candidates, finding polling officials, polling places, setting equitable rules for 'How To Vote' cards, examines political donations, collects and stores electoral rolls for the whole nation etc without preference to candidate. They are totally transparent. They also count the votes.
To get rid of the electoral college, you would have to get rid of the States I'm no expert on USA constitution and voting structure and I'm not ignorant, but many democratic countries don't have an equivalent to the electoral college. I can't see the problem in each State voting in a Govenor, giving the ability for each elected Govenor to be a presidential candidate. That's one option approaching 1 vote/citizen.
because the forefathers didn't realize elections would come down to two canidates (sic) and Citizens in less populated state have more of a vote than citizens in more populated states. Three times now, that has meant the candidate who more citizens voted for did not get the presidency.
Firstly, what is wrong with Party Politics is a lack of choice. If you vote for Bush - you vote for Republican policies, even though you may disagree with a minority of them. If you vote for Kerry, then you vote for Democrats policies in toto. Why? Many voters have to take the bad with the good. Voters also has to accept the endorsed vice presidential candidate as well. Maybe nothing can be done about this.
Secondly, 1 vote/citizen is possible and works very well in Australia. There are problems like Preferential voting and Proportional voting that skews figures, but not as bad as the electoral college system. That isn't transparent at all. For example, if Obama, Clinton, McCain, Paul, Palin and other candidates for the presidency were run independently (no party politics involved, no set policies, no electoral college), then who will win? Who's the best person for the job? I always go back to the democratic foundations of ancient Athenian Greece where it was one vote per citizen and there was true debate in the town forum and citizens voted on potsherds with the mark of the person they wanted. Simple and effective.
Over 200 videos starts to get to be a pain in the butt without a good media management system. Personally, I'd prefer to be able to archive the discs down in the basement somewhere and free up the space in my living room.
That's my problem also. My wife is an avid dvd buyer (I don't know where she's getting the money for them) and that's all she watches except a bit of satellite. I particularly scrounge the sales bins, while she gets the full priced stuff. Although I started to rip to divx, I worked out that I need about 600hrs+ of ripping time and a few old laptops and a decent management software to drive everything. Someone needs to produce network capable TVs. I think there's one or two manufacturers out there that do wireless ones, but hardwired is fine too.
While I found the installment nice, the reader broke so many things that after reading it I uninstalled the reader and therefore the book.
Same for downloaded mobile games. Pay $ for a game then find a few months later that you have to master reset the mobile as it's gone funky. This wipes out the game as well. Consumers can't backup the game or other purchased content so they are screwed. Why do they do this? Because no mobile game company wants their product transferable. Same with your ebook content. That's the real problem with DRM. You don't buy content these days, you buy content with DRM which effectively means you don't own the rights to it. 90% of the consumers out there don't know this and don't care about this until they want to rip it or copy it so they can archive the original somehow. But for DVD, that doesn't matter anymore as the proliferation of the $2 DVD shows. A piece of plastic with some shiny foil is much cheaper to make than reels of mylar, casing, mechanisms and assembly that VHS requires. So they pound out these DVDs for almost nothing and they are winning, because it's a lot more convenient to buy the package= disk+shell+pretty pictures, than download it and set up equipment/software to see it on screen. With multiple TV/monitors in homes nowadays, it's much easier to move a disk from player to player than network a home.
What is more apparent to me is that there is a stratification between DVD and BluRay. Sure, if you want top viewing experience on a large screen, then go BluRay. If you just want to watch the movie then DVD is fine. Archiving BluRay isn't going to make a huge world wide difference in how the general DVD viewing public react to that. They'll still be watching cheap DVDs.
Just watching the program, I had the impression that they caught everything, but Skeptoid's Brian Dunning has pointed out some discrepancies between the 'historical records' {grin} and the brothers' recordings. I should correct my original post and change 1959 to 1957 as Judicia's starting point. All in all you just have to be impressed at the resourcefulness and inventiveness of these brothers who turned out to be the public's third eye in the secret space race. I miei complimenti !
Good point. I saw a documentary recently that detailed the work of 2 Italian brothers who made receiving dishes and captured satellite signals from 1959 onwards and could actually work out wavelengths by the size of the antenna on one if they saw a picture. Eventually they flew to NASA in the mid 60s' who confirmed their findings. They were even able to determine if USSR/USA sent up any spy satellites etc just by scanning the RF. I just can't find a link about them.
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Nice Work! Even in the short term, if a mobile phone was designed with a smattering of solar cells, it would certainly extend its use/day.
I have a solar powered Casio Data Bank watch. What it does is to charge the battery, which keeps the watch accurate. There's a small 3 bar charging/battery level indicator on it. Works very well, even under house lights.
Keep in mind that there are some solar panels that can be recycled. I'm collecting the small panels from solar garden lights that people throw away (mainly because the rechargeable batteries have died). They also contain a small circuit board, a light sensor and an LED. The circuit board has inputs and outputs for charging, (typically 3v) and illuminating.
What's interesting for me though is that I'm going to get a few, connect them into series that will charge a battery, the output of which will be hooked to a large capacitor which in turn will be connected to an electric 'fence' to keep the snails away from my tomato plants during the night.
If it works, then I'll patent it and become exceedingly wealthy on the sales.
Back to the topic though, you could remount these mini panels into any kind of frame you want, folding or otherwise and charge a spare laptop battery. It would be cheap and fun to do especially if you're good with a soldering iron.
Damn! Now I have to look up wikipedia....
Jetsons (I was wrong with 1968), ran from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963.
Looks like The Jetsons beat Star Trek by 4 years:
The Original Series... debuted in the United States on NBC on September 8, 1966.
So unless Flash Gordon, Jet Jackson, Rocket Man or Superman had laptops then the Jetsons win hands down.
Utter Crud. In 1968 the Jetsons had laptops (back of cereal boxes) and that is about as close to it as it got. Maybe Kay was watching TV at the time.....
Doesn't really work without knowing its name does it?
why host it on the Web at all?
Access.
I prefer apathetic anger. That way I just don't give a damn.
Agree. Google can't find anything unless there are links to it from an outside source. If the links are very few and you don't SEO on purpose, then it's hidden from Google eyes.
In fact, I know websites that use this for anonymity.
Do you have anything as sophisticated as this?
The Ministry for State Security, known as the Stasi, which acted as East Germany's secret police and intelligence agency throughout the Cold War, used odour recognition to keep tabs on potential dissidents.
They often collected the samples surreptitiously - breaking into homes to steal suspects' underwear, or by wiping down chairs used during interrogations.
The samples were then stored in glass jars, each carefully labelled with details of whom the sample came from. Some of the jars are now on display at the Stasi museum in Berlin.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6683803.stm
Earth vs the Spider is the more thoughtful movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282178/
I suggest we all go selectively breed and send our offspring to face trials of horrors.
Could we send the telephone sanitizers first?
I, of course, was going to pick you up on that... Apology accepted.
So you have to co-ordinate between local, state, and federal agencies on election day.
If you mean do Australians vote for State and Federal governments on the same day? No.
All GP is saying is that the Electoral Commission is responsible for counting votes for all levels of government, but not on the same day.
It's an administrative department responsible for the bread-and-butter functionality of everything to do with elections from registering candidates, finding polling officials, polling places, setting equitable rules for 'How To Vote' cards, examines political donations, collects and stores electoral rolls for the whole nation etc without preference to candidate. They are totally transparent.
They also count the votes.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/114176/philips_shows_networked_tv_home_theater.html is what I saw.
I wouldn't want that on wireless though. I stream video on wireless and works ok, but slows down everything else if I'm not careful.
Oops! My goof. I was ostracized from my Ancient History class.
As for the rest? I hate that practicalities often ruin a great concept.
To get rid of the electoral college, you would have to get rid of the States
I'm no expert on USA constitution and voting structure and I'm not ignorant, but many democratic countries don't have an equivalent to the electoral college.
I can't see the problem in each State voting in a Govenor, giving the ability for each elected Govenor to be a presidential candidate. That's one option approaching 1 vote/citizen.
because the forefathers didn't realize elections would come down to two canidates (sic)
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Citizens in less populated state have more of a vote than citizens in more populated states. Three times now, that has meant the candidate who more citizens voted for did not get the presidency.
Firstly, what is wrong with Party Politics is a lack of choice. If you vote for Bush - you vote for Republican policies, even though you may disagree with a minority of them.
If you vote for Kerry, then you vote for Democrats policies in toto. Why? Many voters have to take the bad with the good. Voters also has to accept the endorsed vice presidential candidate as well. Maybe nothing can be done about this.
Secondly, 1 vote/citizen is possible and works very well in Australia. There are problems like Preferential voting and Proportional voting that skews figures, but not as bad as the electoral college system. That isn't transparent at all.
For example, if Obama, Clinton, McCain, Paul, Palin and other candidates for the presidency were run independently (no party politics involved, no set policies, no electoral college), then who will win?
Who's the best person for the job?
I always go back to the democratic foundations of ancient Athenian Greece where it was one vote per citizen and there was true debate in the town forum and citizens voted on potsherds with the mark of the person they wanted. Simple and effective.
Over 200 videos starts to get to be a pain in the butt without a good media management system. Personally, I'd prefer to be able to archive the discs down in the basement somewhere and free up the space in my living room.
That's my problem also. My wife is an avid dvd buyer (I don't know where she's getting the money for them) and that's all she watches except a bit of satellite. I particularly scrounge the sales bins, while she gets the full priced stuff. Although I started to rip to divx, I worked out that I need about 600hrs+ of ripping time and a few old laptops and a decent management software to drive everything.
Someone needs to produce network capable TVs. I think there's one or two manufacturers out there that do wireless ones, but hardwired is fine too.
Eh? What did you say???
Now why don't they just put a heater into it and use it as fuel? Make more sens than throwing it away.
I wish we would move onto ^X
I'm sick of the ^H and ^W
While I found the installment nice, the reader broke so many things that after reading it I uninstalled the reader and therefore the book.
Same for downloaded mobile games. Pay $ for a game then find a few months later that you have to master reset the mobile as it's gone funky. This wipes out the game as well. Consumers can't backup the game or other purchased content so they are screwed. Why do they do this? Because no mobile game company wants their product transferable. Same with your ebook content. That's the real problem with DRM. You don't buy content these days, you buy content with DRM which effectively means you don't own the rights to it. 90% of the consumers out there don't know this and don't care about this until they want to rip it or copy it so they can archive the original somehow.
But for DVD, that doesn't matter anymore as the proliferation of the $2 DVD shows. A piece of plastic with some shiny foil is much cheaper to make than reels of mylar, casing, mechanisms and assembly that VHS requires. So they pound out these DVDs for almost nothing and they are winning, because it's a lot more convenient to buy the package= disk+shell+pretty pictures, than download it and set up equipment/software to see it on screen.
With multiple TV/monitors in homes nowadays, it's much easier to move a disk from player to player than network a home.
What is more apparent to me is that there is a stratification between DVD and BluRay.
Sure, if you want top viewing experience on a large screen, then go BluRay. If you just want to watch the movie then DVD is fine.
Archiving BluRay isn't going to make a huge world wide difference in how the general DVD viewing public react to that. They'll still be watching cheap DVDs.
That's them. 'Space Hackers' eh? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F_67UAaG70
Just watching the program, I had the impression that they caught everything, but Skeptoid's Brian Dunning has pointed out some discrepancies between the 'historical records' {grin} and the brothers' recordings.
I should correct my original post and change 1959 to 1957 as Judicia's starting point.
All in all you just have to be impressed at the resourcefulness and inventiveness of these brothers who turned out to be the public's third eye in the secret space race.
I miei complimenti !
Good point. I saw a documentary recently that detailed the work of 2 Italian brothers who made receiving dishes and captured satellite signals from 1959 onwards and could actually work out wavelengths by the size of the antenna on one if they saw a picture.
Eventually they flew to NASA in the mid 60s' who confirmed their findings. They were even able to determine if USSR/USA sent up any spy satellites etc just by scanning the RF.
I just can't find a link about them.