Comment Re:what are you going to do? (Score 1) 554
So back to you, what are you going to do when oil runs out in just a century or so?
I will roll over in my grave, ok?
So back to you, what are you going to do when oil runs out in just a century or so?
I will roll over in my grave, ok?
Next to that, we need a system of converting CO2 from the air into a usable fuel, ideally propane, because propane is not a greenhouse gas and inert.
Really? My reading is that the equation for propane combustion is: C3H8 + 5O2 = 3CO2 + 4H20
Maybe propane produces less CO2, pound for pound, than say, coal. (I don't actually know, and don't care to look it up.) But it certainly produces CO2 when burned.
Oh, and anyone who's ever cooked on a propane grill, or used a propane torch, will attest to its distinct non-inertness...
Fire Ants FTW!
That is one of my favorite analogies, and I've never before heard anyone use it besides myself. I grew up in Florida, where I used to kick the tops off of ant hills all summer long. Free entertainment for out-of-school kiddies.
Just be sure to take a few steps back after kicking...
Would you please provide some kind of citations to historical documents to support your assertion?
Unfortunately, a small, aggressive, well-funded minority can always subvert the democratic process.
If by this, you are obliquely referring to the NRA (as the aggressive, well-funded minority), you might take note that right now in Washington State, billionaires are out-spending the NRA (and pro-gun overall) by a ratio of 7 to 1 on an initiative to expand background checks. Well, at least that is what they are calling it. It's a whole lot more than "simply" expanding background checks, but I digress...
Said billionaires include:
Bill and Melinda Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer (gotta love all that Microsoft money slushing around)
Nick Hanauer
oh,
and Michael Bloomberg.
I particularly thrilled at how Ralph Fascitelli of Washington Ceasefire recently invoked the imprimatur of Dan Satterburg (King County prosecutor) as a supporter of I-594, while not mentioning the rest of the state (King county is a little over a quarter of the state's population). This was, of course, to a Seattle audience (who would care about the rest of Washington's population - how?).
Wi-Fi is not a wireless communications standard. IEEE 802.11 is the wireless communications standard. Wi-Fi is a registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance - and industry trade organization. They do publish interoperability agreements and offer "certification" (required to use their trademarks on products), but these should not be confused with the IEEE wireless communications standard.
(rant done - going back to reading now...)
I'd like to take a moment to memorialize a pioneer in this pursuit that probably none of you ever heard of. The name is Jim Lovette. Jim worked with me at Apple in the early 90's. He was a heart-and-soul devotee to the democratization of RF bandwidth for high speed data communications. With Jim's leadership, Apple drafted a petition to the FCC, known as Data-PCS. This was a proposal to allocate spectrum in the U.S. exclusively for use in data communications (as opposed to "voice only" which was the vogue at the time). The Data-PCS petition caused a lot of excitement, but did not result in anything earthshaking as an outcome. Still it started a movement of which this latest step is a grand one in the pursuit of "computing devices talking to each other" being equally important to "people talking to each other." Jim (and our team) were also early promoters of wireless LAN, which we all know today as WiFi. The IEEE 802.11 committee had just formed. Apple's early foray into wireless LAN preceded the availability of IEEE 802.11 (aka WiFi) products, and never made it to market. Apple chose instead to introduce their first wireless LAN products as 802.11b (11 Mbit/sec) WiFi. And over 20 years later, look what it has become?
Jim passed away in 2002, leaving us with a legacy of which few outside the cloistered Wireless LAN industry would even know he contributed so much. Thank you, Jim.
Moore's Law is an expression of exponential growth. All we are seeing is the logical conclusion of applying exponential growth expectations to a real world finite resource (i.e. the fact that atoms have an essential finite size). See Wheat and Chessboard problem for reference.
R'd the F.A. I don't see anywhere it says that a design patent is not a patent.
OTOH, there is USPTO which disagrees with you when they say:
"A patent is an intellectual property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States” for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted.
There are three types of patents. Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.
Note the three types: design, utility, and plant. Design is most assuredly a type of patent.
I built one of these as well, except I added an extension arm off to the side and mounted the control panel on the extension. Otherwise, same outcome.
Now, if only I would use it...
Hydrogen will win the end, we just don't know how yet...
Wow - that is a "faith based" point of view if ever I've seen one.
So police are all armed in the pursuit of killing as many citizens as possible?
The solution is obvious, but not yet available.
We all simply need to carry phasers - set to "stun".
If only...
I'll take a "shot" (pun intentional)
Think of it this way: I'd much rather a suicidal person put a bullet in their own brain pan than to have them swerve into incoming traffic (in which "me" == "incoming").
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
