Posts by hutneab 6 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Apr 2013
Ok, I'll agree that with the economics arguments made here, the use of "massively too high" appears to be wrong. Having read much of the Guardian's output on this issue though, I'm hardly left with the sense that the (incorrect) idea that oil companies are massively-overvalued-based-on-reserves is an especially critical part of their argument; nor does being wrong on that issue substantially weaken their campaign.
Is the author and the Grauniad not furiously agreeing?
The author is saying that the market value of any of these companies pretty much does not reflect the value of today's reserves in 50 years time (i.e. the reserves currently contribute next to nothing to the current market price). The Guardian is saying that in 50 years time, there's no way we can allow those reserves to be used so by then they'll have to be worth nothing.
So, as time passes, the value of *today's* reserves will make up a bigger proportion of the actual market value of these companies, and it should still be next to nothing because we can't allow them to be burnt. Therefore, the value of these companies is going to collapse, and you probably don't want to be caught out when it does happen. If *today's* reserves will never have any substantial monetary value, then why would reserves discovered tomorrow? Thus the absurdity of these companies continuing to spend billions in discovering new sources of fossil fuels.
So despite all the bluster at the start of this article, I don't really see the contradiction.
Good grief. I've just read the manual for that. This is up there with those fake IED detectors that were sold to the Iraqi government. I'm surprised that Buffalo agree to rebadge their SSDs, host the manual, and have anything to do with this at all. I'm also surprised there are any electronics in there at all - you could just pass through the ethernet connectors directly and be done with it. Instead, they seem to have stuffed a router in there. I wonder if it'd run OpenWRT...
Hard disc configuration is only one of a myriad of issues you need to build in to make this an industry leading product.
Most obviously make sure the network connection only accepts CAT 7 cable as that is known to sound better than CAT 5 - http://mobile.extremetech.com/latest/80702-increasing-the-sound-quality-of-your-music-by-switching-from-cat-5-networking-to-cat-7
You should also build in the ability to ambiently condition fields - sadly the go-to after-market product in this genre is discontinued - http://www.lessloss.com/blackbody-p-200.html - but if you could build in these facilities that would certainly be something no competing vendor could match quickly, giving you a clear market lead.
Next, you should probably ship the audioNAS with many specially selected pebbles, and magic tape, so that they can be attached to audio connectors. This substantially increases the soundstage and depth of the audio image. http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm
Finally, be sure to ship your product with super fuses. It's well known how the standard fuse can cause many issues with sonic reproduction and seriously limit bass response. After all: not all 13A fuses let the same amount of current pass. http://www.russandrews.com/product-Russ-Andrews-13A-SuperFuse-1016.htm
If you address all these issues, the reception to your product in the audiophile community will be out of this world.
It's used for AGPS where the A is Assisted. Basically if your phone hasn't locked onto any (or not enough) satellites, you can find your location fairly accurately by looking at the relative strengths of all the wifi networks in range where you are and comparing to a precomputed database.
Presumably these things go out of date though fairly often?
Water expands as it freezes. You could use this expansion to close a mechanical switch or pop out a pin or something, assuming the water is sufficiently sealed in some sort of stretchy (ideally in only one direction) container. Yes, I don't know how far up it gets cold enough for water to freeze, but you could presumably just dilute some salt in there to adjust the height. I'm thinking something like get a piece of copper pipe, seal one end, pour in quite a lot of water, stuff in a cork at the other end. When it freezes, the cork should be forced out. That movement should be enough.
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