Think of the cost of keeping a 100 mile cable cryogenically cooled. I know it would be a lot. The idea is that if you have to switch to a hydrogen based economy anyway (assume fuel cell cars and stuff), and your going to have to distribute it somehow, then you should combine that with the upgrade to the power grid infrastructure since your going to have to cool that somehow as well. I don't see anything like this happening for a very long time though. As for fiber, I live in Boulder Colorado, which has a pretty fat pipeline going to it (NOAA NIST NCAR are all here). And yet, I gotta pay 50 bucks a month for broadband from the cable company because I have no other real options, other than paying 40 or so for DSL. Its not like there isn't a market for better service, its that the cable and telecom companies can collude so they don't have to offer any reasonable alternative. And as long as there isn't an alternative, there isn't any incentive for them to improve anything.
"As an outsider looking in, I'm counting on the IT community for ideas and support as this comic strip goes forward," said Gorfinkel, who goes by the name nickname Gorf. Send in some stories! Also, MSFT is just sponsoring (as is Seagate), so I wouldn't be too concerned about their editorial influence.
Cant we have both? Here is what I envision: Lets move the power grid to an underground superconducting material (I know there are issues with this, but I don't see any that couldn't be overcome). Were gonna have to keep that pretty cold right? So that gives us an opportunity to move to a hydrogen economy in the same step too. Another nice thing about superconductors is that we can also transmit information over them, close to lossless, more bandwidth than we could feasibly take advantage of for a while. I'm sure it would cost quite a bit more than 100B$ but I think it might be worth it. Its like christmas, in disneyland and with strippers! On another note, I gotta agree it probably isn't a good idea to put the government in charge of this.
"There's a very short leap between implanting a [cochlear] device and one that lets you receive data directly from the Net," Gives a new meaning to getting worms! or to catching a virus. and generally seems a little more intrusive than a cochlear implant. None the less, if the pr0n industry can take advantage of this, I'm sure it will be ubiquitous.
Assembly is for wussies! Real men code with punch cards. And we had to walk barefoot in the snow uphill both ways to the lab just to test our programs. Seriously dude, there are some pretty good compilers out there nowadays. jump on the bandwagon. all the cool kids are doin it.
Other lawbreaking (such as the allegations against telcos and whatnot) can still be dealt with - that is a separate issue. Leave out there, don't sweep it under the rug... but don't use it as a means of obstructing our national defense, either. RTFT (the last T is for Title). The other law breaking, these allegations against the telcos is the topic at hand today. Not a "separate issue" but the issue at hand. I do not believe the parent posters intent is to use that as a means of obstructing our national defense, I think his point is that if a corporation has willingly and knowingly aided the government in committing a crime, we should be able to punish them. Both sides are actively trying to use this topic as a political tool to gain leverage with their bases, its just that we shouldn't let that get in the way of protecting our right to prosecute a corporation which has broken the law.
Why not come up with an ACTUAL WORKING SOLUTION to the problem terrorism, as was the original topic of this discussion? This was not the topic of this discussion. again, RTFT.
Do you think I could patent the business model of patent trolling? Then sue all the companies needlessly tying up our legal and patent systems with this crap. Just a thought... maybe Ive just been at work too long.
Ok, so a very few high-end phones equipped with GPS If you have a GSM phone, it has a GPS chip in it. Its required. The idea is if you call 911 from your cell they gotta know where you are. Mostly they will do triangulation (faster and more reliable) but that isn't always an option. Back to the topic at hand though, this is a dumb idea. I live pretty close to rocky flats (where they used to make all the plutonium triggers for nukes). Its got a fair amount of radiation coming out of it. Has for many years. The remediation wasn't even good enough to be called 1/2 assed. I would assume that a consistent source like that would trigger this sort of a system a fair amount. Or say your on a farm in North Dakota, and you happen to walk over one of the missile silos up there? Would the system be smart enough to know "oh thats one of the nukes we know about and don't have to worry about"?
Repeat many many times and you get a separation of a special line. Or perhaps not.... what I mean is that the trait may spread through the population, then speciation may occur through another method, such a geographical separation of a group (see Darwin's Finches). Or the trait may be so bad ass that it will spread through the whole population effectively leaving the entire species changed, but perhaps not different enough to call a new species. On to the matter at hand, I do not believe you interpret the finding correctly. It was a verification that Natural Selection is what drives evolution and not A Competing Theory (which ID folk is only a theory BECAUSE IT IS FALSIFIABLE as just happened). By random mutation in the offspring we would expect to see a wide variety of mutations, the idea was that over time, these sorts of random mutations would move the overall population toward whatever mutations were effective vs. Natural Selection, which is what you describe and what was verified by these folks (and was what I learned in high school bio too).
you have to come up with a way to get people to use more expensive forms of energy. That may be something you could get to work in the US. But in the developing world they are investing in the cheapest energy they can get (usually coal, usually without any standards, and at least in China, in droves). The US really hasn't invested in nuclear for more than 35 years. Its not because its too expensive (we have no problem here in Colorado paying 10 cents / kW for wind), its because nuclear has a serious PR problem. I'm not talking about improving efficiency either. What I was trying to say was we need to develop new sources of energy, they need to be renewable, we need to make them cheap and they shouldn't be pumping out greenhouse gasses. Not for our use really, but so that we can sell these sorts of innovations to the developing world. Energy markets in China and India are exploding, and for a while at least they are going to continue that rapid growth. If we can tap into that need, and grow that market here, we will undoubtedly see a good return on investment. I say, we make that investment now. If we can make it work here first, the developing world will follow our lead.
I picture this scene: Mom:"now little timmy, don't be afraid about your first flight. If you get afraid, the government will know, come and get you, and the TSA is going to have to put you on the probulator." Timmy:"Ahhhhhhhhh....." - runs in fear TSA Agent (big burly trick named 'Molly'):"Now just hold still, the probulator is designed to be minimally intrusive, oh and i hope you haven't eaten in the last 48 hours, cause if you have.... well i just hope you didn't" Timmy:"Ahhhhhhh!!!!" Mom:"Timmy, what did you eat beats and rotten baby food!?!?"
I can appreciate that. And when learning Spanish I too found the lack of such a word in the English language perturbing. And I swear I wasn't trying to be a language nazi. But I couldn't help myself. While I have no problem with you using the word, when an AC spouts off some gibberish about "Evolution is just a theory" I'm gonna have to call the douche bag out.
The very occasional teaching of ID in public classrooms is probably not even a factor. But I guess confronting real problems isn't as much fun as kicking religious people, is it? But remember ID is a "genuine" "certified" "scientific" "theory", and has nothing to do with religion right? Isn't that the argument for putting it in schools? Everything else in your post is absolutely correct, why you felt the need to throw in the last little bit of flame confounds me.
When did we all conspire to repeat the meme that the engineering job market sucks? I don't know, but I don't like it one bit. I remember when I had just graduated high school, and decided to go to into engineering I was thinking to myself "at least I'll get a job when I graduate". What do you know, at graduation I got a call for an interview. On graduation day, while at the ceremony no less I set up the interview for the job I have now. There will always be demand for engineers, and competition from overseas only helps. Contrary to all the mumbo jumbo about the US moving to a service economy, that isn't going to happen. We can't support our country by all doing each others laundry and making each other sandwiches. I think the first thing we need to fix is the rampant anti-intellectualism in our country. Since when did it become a Very Bad Thing to be educated? Its like we've decided as a society that its just too hard to compete in the global economy, so lets all just give up. I think thats just a tremendous load, and will do more to hurt us than help us. You know why the U.S. is such a dominant force in the global economy? Because were good at it. There are resourceful innovators here, in tech and in business. Now we are charged with developing the next generation of such innovators, and we are failing miserably. We have to ask ourselves, why? And more on point, how do we fix this? I don't believe that our education system is so broken as to be beyond repair. We need to fix it. We know we need to fix it. And B.S. standardized tests, No Child Left Behind, the laundry list of other federal and state crap isn't helping. You know what worked in the past might just work again. Maybe we should try another "space race" style program. There's nothing like a little healthy competition to get people pumped up about science education. Any ideas for what we could try this time? I don't think going back to the moon is gonna do it. I think we gotta get something new on the plate, and our little energy crisis might just be the problem to solve. We all know that global warming is going to be an issue, and we need to start curbing emissions just as soon as we can. So lets set a lofty goal, by 2050 lets cut the carbon footprint of the US by 1/2. Thats practically impossible. Were gonna have to get some wicked bad ass engineers on this one, and if we set this as a goal soon we might just see a push for more homegrown US engineers. This should put pressure on schools to improve science education, and students will be more engaged in science. Colleges would have more research money, especially in the basic sciences and engineering, allowing kids to get some more scholarship money so it might even be cheaper to become an engineer instead of a liberal arts major or finance grad (right now engineering is a little more expensive). Just a thought.
Can (or should) the RIAA member companies actually pay the fine - in which case we're talking much larger sums? This is a great question. Will the member companies use the RIAA like an umbrella company saying that the liability is the RIAA's or will they take responsibility for filing these frivolous suits? More to the point, these suits are filed as Record Label vs. some poor joe not as RIAA vs. right? This case is Atlantic vs. Anderson, is Atlantic responsible for the damages? It would certainly seem to me that the RIAA cant claim all the liability when Atlantic's name is on the suit. Any Lawyers out there who know whether the RIAA can be used as an umbrella to protect the label from liability in this kind of litigation?
7 pins, but just 4 wires going in (unless you got a 3.3V line too which is not necessary on the bulk of SATA drives). The 7 pins make it hot swapable, you can just yank power to a drive, and it doesn't hose the whole thing. I do failure analysis on hard drives all day (its my job), and for me it is about the best part of the SATA spec (since I don't have to reboot machines just to throw a different drive in for testing). On another note, I'd guess this is also why it took so long to come out with an eSATA power spec that would work, since occasionally it matters whether you pull the SATA cable or the power cable first. Pulling power first is generally the way to go, as sometimes if you pull the SATA cable first the machine will get pissed, and you gotta reboot as your SATA controller will just sit there waiting to hear back from the drive that no longer has a connection.
During spin up there are fairly significant current spikes, which could I suppose cause some interference. Of course at that point there isn't any data transfer other than wait for ready from the SATA controller. So it could cause some issues. My question is will this still be hot swappable, which in my view is the main advantage to eSATA.
If anyone can convince their IT department that their iPhone is for work, more power to you. But somehow I think they aren't going to be fooled by its email capability. They know your using it to watch movies and TV shows in your cube (at least thats what Ive been using mine for).
You make some valid points, however you miss the crucial improvement photovoltaics offer over traditional energy distribution, namely it is much easier to distribute capacity. Are you going to purchase a home coal power plant any time soon? Obviously not, but if you could drop 1$/W and quit paying your electricity bill you just might have too consider it. With 1$/W you could pay off your system fairly quickly (as compared to other methods of generation at least, Ive even heard numbers as small as 4 years). When you consider the incentives many states have for solar, it becomes especially interesting. Places like MA and CO I know you can sell back what you produce, and since solar generation is generally peaking at the same times as peak use, it can be quite profitable. Granted solar power isn't going to replace electric utilities any time soon, and nobody expects there to such a dramatic shift away from traditional power generation. However, suplimenting existing capacity with solar (particularly when done in a distributed model, where each home can act as an independent utility, selling back unused capacity to the utility) can certainly change the game in the energy market. It may not be a fair assumption to say that electric cars wont be solar powered.
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Logo. Maybe we can't really call it a game, but when I tried it for the first time I thought it was awfully fun! Then again, Ive always enjoyed math and programming just a little too much for most peoples comfort. But there was a turtle! You got to tell him where to go! I sure as hell thought it was a game at the time.
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I know it would be a lot. The idea is that if you have to switch to a hydrogen based economy anyway (assume fuel cell cars and stuff), and your going to have to distribute it somehow, then you should combine that with the upgrade to the power grid infrastructure since your going to have to cool that somehow as well.
I don't see anything like this happening for a very long time though.
As for fiber, I live in Boulder Colorado, which has a pretty fat pipeline going to it (NOAA NIST NCAR are all here). And yet, I gotta pay 50 bucks a month for broadband from the cable company because I have no other real options, other than paying 40 or so for DSL. Its not like there isn't a market for better service, its that the cable and telecom companies can collude so they don't have to offer any reasonable alternative. And as long as there isn't an alternative, there isn't any incentive for them to improve anything.
Send in some stories! Also, MSFT is just sponsoring (as is Seagate), so I wouldn't be too concerned about their editorial influence.
Cant we have both?
Here is what I envision:
Lets move the power grid to an underground superconducting material (I know there are issues with this, but I don't see any that couldn't be overcome). Were gonna have to keep that pretty cold right? So that gives us an opportunity to move to a hydrogen economy in the same step too. Another nice thing about superconductors is that we can also transmit information over them, close to lossless, more bandwidth than we could feasibly take advantage of for a while. I'm sure it would cost quite a bit more than 100B$ but I think it might be worth it.
Its like christmas, in disneyland and with strippers!
On another note, I gotta agree it probably isn't a good idea to put the government in charge of this.
Gives a new meaning to getting worms!
or to catching a virus.
and generally seems a little more intrusive than a cochlear implant. None the less, if the pr0n industry can take advantage of this, I'm sure it will be ubiquitous.
But somehow I just don't think its gonna happen..... Oh well, a man can dream cant he?
Assembly is for wussies! Real men code with punch cards. And we had to walk barefoot in the snow uphill both ways to the lab just to test our programs. Seriously dude, there are some pretty good compilers out there nowadays. jump on the bandwagon. all the cool kids are doin it.
Why not come up with an ACTUAL WORKING SOLUTION to the problem terrorism, as was the original topic of this discussion? This was not the topic of this discussion. again, RTFT.
Do you think I could patent the business model of patent trolling? Then sue all the companies needlessly tying up our legal and patent systems with this crap. Just a thought... maybe Ive just been at work too long.
If you have a GSM phone, it has a GPS chip in it. Its required. The idea is if you call 911 from your cell they gotta know where you are. Mostly they will do triangulation (faster and more reliable) but that isn't always an option.
Back to the topic at hand though, this is a dumb idea. I live pretty close to rocky flats (where they used to make all the plutonium triggers for nukes). Its got a fair amount of radiation coming out of it. Has for many years. The remediation wasn't even good enough to be called 1/2 assed. I would assume that a consistent source like that would trigger this sort of a system a fair amount. Or say your on a farm in North Dakota, and you happen to walk over one of the missile silos up there? Would the system be smart enough to know "oh thats one of the nukes we know about and don't have to worry about"?
As a liberal commie pinko... amen brother. If only I had mod points.
Or perhaps not.... what I mean is that the trait may spread through the population, then speciation may occur through another method, such a geographical separation of a group (see Darwin's Finches). Or the trait may be so bad ass that it will spread through the whole population effectively leaving the entire species changed, but perhaps not different enough to call a new species.
On to the matter at hand, I do not believe you interpret the finding correctly. It was a verification that Natural Selection is what drives evolution and not A Competing Theory (which ID folk is only a theory BECAUSE IT IS FALSIFIABLE as just happened). By random mutation in the offspring we would expect to see a wide variety of mutations, the idea was that over time, these sorts of random mutations would move the overall population toward whatever mutations were effective vs. Natural Selection, which is what you describe and what was verified by these folks (and was what I learned in high school bio too).
That may be something you could get to work in the US. But in the developing world they are investing in the cheapest energy they can get (usually coal, usually without any standards, and at least in China, in droves). The US really hasn't invested in nuclear for more than 35 years. Its not because its too expensive (we have no problem here in Colorado paying 10 cents / kW for wind), its because nuclear has a serious PR problem. I'm not talking about improving efficiency either. What I was trying to say was we need to develop new sources of energy, they need to be renewable, we need to make them cheap and they shouldn't be pumping out greenhouse gasses. Not for our use really, but so that we can sell these sorts of innovations to the developing world. Energy markets in China and India are exploding, and for a while at least they are going to continue that rapid growth. If we can tap into that need, and grow that market here, we will undoubtedly see a good return on investment. I say, we make that investment now. If we can make it work here first, the developing world will follow our lead.
I picture this scene:
Mom:"now little timmy, don't be afraid about your first flight. If you get afraid, the government will know, come and get you, and the TSA is going to have to put you on the probulator."
Timmy:"Ahhhhhhhhh....." - runs in fear
TSA Agent (big burly trick named 'Molly'):"Now just hold still, the probulator is designed to be minimally intrusive, oh and i hope you haven't eaten in the last 48 hours, cause if you have.... well i just hope you didn't"
Timmy:"Ahhhhhhh!!!!"
Mom:"Timmy, what did you eat beats and rotten baby food!?!?"
I can appreciate that. And when learning Spanish I too found the lack of such a word in the English language perturbing. And I swear I wasn't trying to be a language nazi. But I couldn't help myself. While I have no problem with you using the word, when an AC spouts off some gibberish about "Evolution is just a theory" I'm gonna have to call the douche bag out.
But remember ID is a "genuine" "certified" "scientific" "theory", and has nothing to do with religion right? Isn't that the argument for putting it in schools?
Everything else in your post is absolutely correct, why you felt the need to throw in the last little bit of flame confounds me.
I don't know, but I don't like it one bit. I remember when I had just graduated high school, and decided to go to into engineering I was thinking to myself "at least I'll get a job when I graduate". What do you know, at graduation I got a call for an interview. On graduation day, while at the ceremony no less I set up the interview for the job I have now. There will always be demand for engineers, and competition from overseas only helps.
Contrary to all the mumbo jumbo about the US moving to a service economy, that isn't going to happen. We can't support our country by all doing each others laundry and making each other sandwiches. I think the first thing we need to fix is the rampant anti-intellectualism in our country. Since when did it become a Very Bad Thing to be educated? Its like we've decided as a society that its just too hard to compete in the global economy, so lets all just give up. I think thats just a tremendous load, and will do more to hurt us than help us. You know why the U.S. is such a dominant force in the global economy? Because were good at it. There are resourceful innovators here, in tech and in business. Now we are charged with developing the next generation of such innovators, and we are failing miserably. We have to ask ourselves, why?
And more on point, how do we fix this?
I don't believe that our education system is so broken as to be beyond repair. We need to fix it. We know we need to fix it. And B.S. standardized tests, No Child Left Behind, the laundry list of other federal and state crap isn't helping.
You know what worked in the past might just work again. Maybe we should try another "space race" style program. There's nothing like a little healthy competition to get people pumped up about science education. Any ideas for what we could try this time? I don't think going back to the moon is gonna do it. I think we gotta get something new on the plate, and our little energy crisis might just be the problem to solve. We all know that global warming is going to be an issue, and we need to start curbing emissions just as soon as we can. So lets set a lofty goal, by 2050 lets cut the carbon footprint of the US by 1/2. Thats practically impossible. Were gonna have to get some wicked bad ass engineers on this one, and if we set this as a goal soon we might just see a push for more homegrown US engineers. This should put pressure on schools to improve science education, and students will be more engaged in science. Colleges would have more research money, especially in the basic sciences and engineering, allowing kids to get some more scholarship money so it might even be cheaper to become an engineer instead of a liberal arts major or finance grad (right now engineering is a little more expensive). Just a thought.
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This is a great question. Will the member companies use the RIAA like an umbrella company saying that the liability is the RIAA's or will they take responsibility for filing these frivolous suits?
More to the point, these suits are filed as Record Label vs. some poor joe not as RIAA vs. right? This case is Atlantic vs. Anderson, is Atlantic responsible for the damages? It would certainly seem to me that the RIAA cant claim all the liability when Atlantic's name is on the suit. Any Lawyers out there who know whether the RIAA can be used as an umbrella to protect the label from liability in this kind of litigation?
7 pins, but just 4 wires going in (unless you got a 3.3V line too which is not necessary on the bulk of SATA drives). The 7 pins make it hot swapable, you can just yank power to a drive, and it doesn't hose the whole thing. I do failure analysis on hard drives all day (its my job), and for me it is about the best part of the SATA spec (since I don't have to reboot machines just to throw a different drive in for testing).
On another note, I'd guess this is also why it took so long to come out with an eSATA power spec that would work, since occasionally it matters whether you pull the SATA cable or the power cable first. Pulling power first is generally the way to go, as sometimes if you pull the SATA cable first the machine will get pissed, and you gotta reboot as your SATA controller will just sit there waiting to hear back from the drive that no longer has a connection.
During spin up there are fairly significant current spikes, which could I suppose cause some interference.
Of course at that point there isn't any data transfer other than wait for ready from the SATA controller. So it could cause some issues. My question is will this still be hot swappable, which in my view is the main advantage to eSATA.
If anyone can convince their IT department that their iPhone is for work, more power to you. But somehow I think they aren't going to be fooled by its email capability. They know your using it to watch movies and TV shows in your cube (at least thats what Ive been using mine for).
You make some valid points, however you miss the crucial improvement photovoltaics offer over traditional energy distribution, namely it is much easier to distribute capacity. Are you going to purchase a home coal power plant any time soon? Obviously not, but if you could drop 1$/W and quit paying your electricity bill you just might have too consider it. With 1$/W you could pay off your system fairly quickly (as compared to other methods of generation at least, Ive even heard numbers as small as 4 years). When you consider the incentives many states have for solar, it becomes especially interesting. Places like MA and CO I know you can sell back what you produce, and since solar generation is generally peaking at the same times as peak use, it can be quite profitable. Granted solar power isn't going to replace electric utilities any time soon, and nobody expects there to such a dramatic shift away from traditional power generation. However, suplimenting existing capacity with solar (particularly when done in a distributed model, where each home can act as an independent utility, selling back unused capacity to the utility) can certainly change the game in the energy market.
It may not be a fair assumption to say that electric cars wont be solar powered.
Your totally right..... I don't think Ive had enough coffee yet this morning.
Is clear the song must be:
Were sailors on the moon
we carry a harpoon
Or I'll go build my own lunar lander! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the lunar lander! And the blackjack! Ah, screw the whole thing.
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Logo. Maybe we can't really call it a game, but when I tried it for the first time I thought it was awfully fun! Then again, Ive always enjoyed math and programming just a little too much for most peoples comfort. But there was a turtle! You got to tell him where to go! I sure as hell thought it was a game at the time.