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And, in Seattle, runs off hydro power.

...Nuclear, largely, if the charging is done at night.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_glance/states...
The 2008's are being delivered in 2009 because Tesla is so far behind schedule.
Mobile phones to track carbon footprint
The road to Nirvana
I find that I start skimming partway through so that by the end of it I'm just scrolling. Was the last third of this one really about how he's trying his hardest to ignore video game remakes? He even mentions final fantasy! Also, secret remake message to everyone: bionic commando rearmed and wipeout HD are both awesome.
It's time to build Starfleet Academy. We know there are enough VCs around San Francisco to do this! :)
"With that, you're a good-looking, intelligent, well-paid guy. Suddenly you can be a complete jackass and still get laid pretty often."

I disagree. It really depends on your personality. What is called "social ineptitude" isn't always just a lack of ability or experience or skill. I had to realize that the reason I don't get laid is that I don't want to: I feel a so much contempt for most people that I simply would not touch them. Generally, because I think they are superficial, but there must be a deeper cause to that. I think I'll look a bit deeper into psychology/psychiatry, but anyway, the point is that "ineptitude" can and very often IS just a sign of ressentiment, contempt, anger, or hatred felt against other people.

There is a simple test to decide: if, at any point of your life, you liked those philosophers like Nietzsche or Ayn Rand who think altruism is a bad thing, you probably have something like that.
I don't love my 1999 Ford Windstar. When will Tesla come out with a minivan?
Risky, we-can't-fail, all-or-nothing science
"Isn't it time to make room for the people who got it right and have the kind of global vision necessary to lead during such a crisis ?"

I don't see any other country doing that apart from the United States. Maybe power is going to shift a little bit to China since they are the world's lender, but apart from that, i can't envision new changes coming
One missing rule: Don't put unnecessary barriers in front of your users...like forcing them to register before they can comment on your blog.

Also, watch out for glaring spelling errors on your about page: http://guruonrails.com/about

I'm always on the lookout for Rails developers with lots of Experiense!
This is both a good piece of advice and a bad piece of advice. The fact that someone can copy your idea is really not of great concern if you execute well. This is very true. But a business is not all [in] the execution. Execution is important, but if you spend all of your time working on a useless or stupid idea then you have just wasted lots of your time, effort, and possibly money. Execution is only good when you have a decent idea to start with.
Yes, it's especially obvious in the Europe <-> US traffic. It's mostly one way, depending on the time of day.
Curiously enough, many Americans see cars as transportation.

They don't get drivers for the same reason they don't have chefs and other personal assistants.
Picking the right one is the hard part.
I'm not sure about the point of having a car I'd drive only 10 days in a year.

Why not creating a company that leases Tesla cars? and the company would also have a racing circuit nearby. Now, that would be fun.
"... but they don't call it telescope science." - unknown
Yeah ... it's neat with its whole 1 gear thing, instant torque

...The same as a Corvette ZR1 (and also the same price) in third gear.

http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9212...

2009 ZR1 . Max rpm 6500 . Tire Dia 26.4 . Tire Circumference 6.9115' . Rear End 3.42

Gear Ratios Max speed(mph)
1 2.29 65.2
2 1.61 92.7
3 1.21 123.4
4 1.00 149.3
5 0.81 184.3
6 0.67 222.8
It will plug into a standard wall socket, but if you can plug into a 220v socket (like a washing machine) it will charge in half the time.
Zones are inferior to almost every other OS's virtualization/isolation strategy, a fact that Sun seems to be recognizing now. If virtualization is a key part of your IT strategy --- and it is for most large enterprises --- Solaris isn't your OS.
How to write your own custom DataMapper adapter
I will preface this by saying my mother has a PHD in neuroscience and it's application to learning and talking to her we know a lot of the details but little of the complexity's in how the brain functions. Anyway, several years ago I was riding on home from school and saw a bird out the window. Out of boredom and curiosity I just started overlaying everything I know about birds and flight. Everything from it's bone structure to the aerodynamics of flight feathers etc. I blacked out and by the time I was aware again we 10 - 15 minutes had gone by.

I assumed it was probably a good idea to never do that again, but I have a incredibly detailed memory of what I pictured so there is a pull to try it again. My point is I think you can overstress your mind and like overclocking a CPU it becomes less stable as you do so. Our minds are a complex balance of chemical signals which has real limits. I try to get enough sleep and take care of the wetware because I think it's less stable than you might assume. Rest and good food are the basics, but so is balancing how you use your mind and trying to avoid unbalanced behavior.

I have gone all out 12 hour days for long periods, but they seem to lead directly to burnout and depression. Yet, if I don't work really hard after a few months I start feeling useless and slow, so I don't think steady state is the best long term idea. My guess is finding a good cycle where I avoid burn out and feeling useless for long periods but I have periods of extreme activity and rest is my best long term balance. However, I have no idea how this relates to my inner biochemistry.
I could have given a massive list of examples of cars faster than the Tesla but figured "most people" covered me there. I was at NAIAS 2008 during press week and watched Jeff Gordon unveil the ZR1 at GM Style. pics elsewhere on my flickr account.
Bankers don't create wealth they gather it from other people. There are a lot of people going nuts because their ability to do this is breaking down.

So, investment banks might fail, but as long as people don't pull money out of their checking or savings account I don't think the system is losing money. What I expect is happening is a lot of "fake" wealth is being destroyed but I don't think it's a good idea to buy up fake wealth with cash the government is borrowing. Because, as soon as we borrow money people will take money out of the system to buy our bonds which necessitates our buying assets to compensate.
Thankyou again.
Citigroup buys Wachovia
You look around you and realize that everyone and everything you love is going to go away, sooner or later, and you don't believe anything good will replace them.

Isn't that exactly how things are? It's not an illusion, that's just the truth. Most people have simply developed a solid sense of denial so they ignore that until they die - or at least until they get old and all their friends start dying.
I spent much of my fourth grade year with my nose buried in a copy of Getting Started in Electronics from Radio Shack. This definitely brought back a lot of memories.
Only someone who hasn't actually USED zones would say that.

Sun never said that zones were the ultimate in virutalization - which is why they are coming out with XVM (their Xen implementation, basically).

I have made plenty of actual greenbacks with zones.
the Tesla only has 1 gear, which doesn't like going much past 100mph.

It is a 2-speed car. Tesla is planning on performing a recall to upgrade the transmissions of all of the delivered 1-speed cars to 2-speed.

http://www.teslamotors.com/media/press_room.php?id=803
No it is not.

I have run both side by side, and still do run Linux for some customers and Solaris for others. Linux wins on ease of installation and apps available, Solaris wins on just about everything else (better threading, VM pager, etc).

If you have the source code to your application and it runs on both platforms, Solaris will run it better.
I was referring to the Tesla's wide torqueband -- "its whole 1 gear thing". It is not an exclusive feature. A ZR1 can also be driven in 1 gear only and still achieve both 0-60 in 4 seconds and a top speed over 100 mph.
A related paper by Nick Szabo:
"A Formal Language for Analyzing Contracts"
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/contractlanguage.html

Szabo's various other related papers:
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/index.html
and his blog at
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/
Why The Flow Of Innovation Has Reversed
How I Evaluate Strategic Positioning Of Ad Networks
So if google came out against slavery or child molestation that would be a bad thing? I understand that the board has legal obligations, but to say that this is an issue that is even debatable is beyond ridiculous to me. Look at every companies "diversity" shot on their web page or brochure, companies like to show the public that they are caring and compassionate. This is no different.
I understand, I have in no way judged your personal morals in this at all.
Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm
The typical barrier to entry erected by many cartels in the US involves government action. The typical barrier to entry for non-regulated industries, like cocaine manufacture and exporting in Central America, involves firebombing a new market entrant's facilities and executing their families. Imperfect as it may be, I prefer the more heavily regulated version.
In my experience, Solaris zones and VMWare's virtualization offerings are the most solid and reliable virtualization solutions available (VMWare is quite pricey though). Zones are the best game in town when you need OS level virtualization.

There are plenty of things that suck about Solaris -- zones aren't one of them.
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Hi and thanks for the info - what time is the meetup?

Depending on when it is I/and or we will try and make it up there.

Cheers
Yeah we'd be looking to raise in that region - mostly for development costs, with only marginal marketing finance required.

Other, non-competing, players in the industry are already earning well in excess of £50k profit per month. We realise this will require lots of hard work to reach but the market is definitely there.

We're located on the south coast about an hour from London so regular trips up to the city happen anyway...
Bankers don't create wealth

This is a common fallacy. Bankers manage risk in lending, reducing overall risk. This is valuable, i.e. it creates wealth.

If any given Bankers were not performing risk-reduction service for society, they would be outcompeted in the market by their competitors. Therefore, to say that bankers do not create wealth, would be to imply that bankers are in conspiracy to distort the lending market.
Download Project Runway Nature Calls
The remaining contestants head outdoors, to design an outfit of their choice inspired by nature.
When starting a company in the beginning it's really clear what success means: Hitting payroll and staying alive.

Once you clear that hurdle it get's a lot more complicated. No longer is it black and white. Alive or Dead.

It's actually easier to live on the edge, though far less desirable. Things are a lot more clear.
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rising exec is abducted from a Taxi after attending a rooftop party. The team also continues to learn to adjust with their new boss.
Xkcd - Height
VCs and Startups won't be immune to the credit crunch
I'm a UK-based entrepreneur that has raised over 10 rounds of VC from £100k angel rounds to $25M VC rounds for 3 different companies. I've gone through the entire 'should we move to the US?' scenario, and raised money from both European & American investors. I'd be happy to provide some advice - drop me an email (address should be visible in profile) if you're interested.

To answer your question generically, I think it depends a lot about the amount of money you're looking to raise, the sector you are in, and where your key customers/partners are located.
Cool, how long is that time?
One thing to keep in mind also is that if you're just starting to get connected to the scene, which I assume is true since you're asking what's there, you're still several months away from being able to raise money, probably closer to a year if you're starting cold. Angels would definitely be the way to go if you can find your way to them since they're like a mix of mentor and investor.
Computers simply got cheaper. You don't have to be NASA or General Dynamics to afford them.
The vector of innovation has changed. It used to be that innovation started with NASA, flowed to the military, then to the enterprise, and finally to the consumer. Today, it is the reverse. All of the most interesting stuff is being built first for consumers and is tricking back to the enterprise.

The basic premise of the article is wrong. NASA specifically, may not play as large a role as it once did, but (most) innovation is still very much a top-down process. Even twitter (which I've seen hailed as innovative again and again) is just a hack on SMS, which of course was not developed by consumers.

He also seems to be implying that web 2ish "social engineering" has outpaced electrical engineering as a means of innovation, which is at best a confusion between the application layer and underlying technology stack.
Fate of Wachovia: Citigroup buys its bank ops.
I'd be more inclined to use Solaris if there were a virtual machine image I could try out from my present platform of choice. Why doesn't Sun make those available? And without annoying promotional crapplications and trialware asking me to buy when I'm just checking stuff out.
At the moment we're kind of keen on working in SF, but neither of us are totally sold on it yet, we both have a lot of ties to the UK. We'd be giving our idea up, for a while at least, it would be easy to start again - but if we could find funding to stay in the UK I think it would be a better fit for now.

>>isn't a huge problem provided you are compensated in equity
As far as we're aware, there's no equity - just fixed salaries.

I'll drop you an email as well, to see if it's worth talking further...

(South coast based and in London fairly regularly anyway)

Thanks
I'm also located in the UK and I am in contact with a few angels. I can introduce you to them if you wish, I am based in the midlands.
ReichOS: Computing after an Axis victory
I never really accepted Cantor's idea. First off if you have a sequence ...1 and ...0 at infinity they are the same number so saying you flip the last bit does not demonstrate that the above number is not in your set.

It doesn't work like that. You want to show that you can't enumerate all reals, so what do you do? You start enumerating all reals. Then you build a new number, whose Nth bit is different from the Nth bit of the Nth real number. You can do that because you have enumerated them, and we have never talked about an infinite N so we are never flipping the last bit of the last number nor anything similar. We are only flipping the Nth bit of the Nth number. Number 819439243? We flip the 819439243th bit. That's all we do.

What do you do then? Well, you compare that new number you created, with the first number, the second number, and so on. And you see that this number is different to all the other numbers.

What does it mean? That it doesn't matter what your enumeration scheme is, there is at least one number that will always be out of your enumeration scheme, and so your enumeration scheme will fail (so this is an absurd also, as we were supposing that this specific enumeration scheme -that could be any enum scheme- was complete). So you don't have as many integers as reals, so QED.

Secondly, if you take the Integer set and say N = the sum of all numbers > 0 you have counted, then you will never reach N as you go to infinity.

As you see, it doens't matter, as in this proof you never need to do the sum of all numbers.
But is that what happened here? Financial institutions lent money to borrowers who could not afford the loan they were given. The financial institutions packaged up those extremely risky loans to pass the buck on to another institution.

It seems that the institutions did not manage risk. In a very generic view, bankers may have value. But as far as this financial crisis goes, they failed miserably.
This is a huge, huge article for startup folks to read. It starts a little slowly, but after that my interest grew with each paragraph until the conclusion, which was 100% spot-on.
How Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments could be applied to greenhouse gas emissions.
Hi - your email isn't listed in your profile can you drop me a line at: pkill123@googlemail.com

Thanks
Social Media ABC's - N is for Netiquette
What the 21st Century Will Taste Like
I think it was around 8 hours for an empty to full charge on 220v.
The Technology of Memory
That would be dishonest - not to mention a far graver threat to a free society than any legal bugaboo about what constitutes 'marriage.'
This comic is just begging to be turned into a poster.
Hi Adam - you sound like exactly the sort of person we're looking to talk to and provide advice.

Unfortunately your email isn't showing in your profile - can you drop me a line at: pkill123@googlemail.com

Thanks
Sorry I thought it was visible, I'll email you this evening.
It's clear that our financial system is simply unsustainable. What happens when all of the big banks have been rolled up into one, and that one super-bank is on its last legs? Nobody will be around to buy them.
Amazing article. Instead of limiting it to genomics, I would apply this sentiment to nearly all parts of biology. The field needs to grow up and start using the powerful principles of building abstractions and leveraging advanced mathematics like physics did around Newton and before.
A little off topic, but interesting practice for 0.

What are the mathematical ramifications of 0% capital reserves?

This is a good chance to remind the readers that the bailout bill contains a clause to accelerate a 2006 law to 10/01/2008, which allows the Federal Reserve to set reserve requirements for a bank to 0%.
Starts at 7pm, info is on http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=35609456822

If you're in London on Thurs it might be worth attending opencoffee in the morning too. I haven't been for a year but it used to be a good place to meet investors and get advice, should still be the case.

Also next week is FOWA, a good event full of European developers, entrepreneurs and VCs (4% of attendees are VCs). Tickets are cheap if you're a student too.
Read this book: The Art of Start
http://www.guykawasaki.com/books/art-of-the-start.shtml

This might be useful if you want to raise fund from VC.
1) No, it didn't. Citi bought the banking assets of Wachovia.

2) This has already been posted in the appropriate venue: http://www.newmogul.com/item?id=470
I agree wholeheartedly. There's nothing like the thrill of attacking some twisties and pushing it to the limit.

Nobody here is Michael Schumacher, but a manual car with a good sound will damn sure make you feel like him.
" firebombing a new market entrant's facilities and executing their families."

Theft of life and property. Not exactly free market either.
Will Habari Be The Next WordPress?
Microsoft unveils the F# programming language
from what I've seen on the internet and dissecting web cams, you merely need to remove a small piece of glass that filters IR light from the webcam and oula! you have a cheap IR camera.
The quote is about marriage as a social institution. States are known to regulate social institutions within their spheres of influence.
I'm not sure I fully buy this argument.

First of all, it puts down failure as something inferior. Failure is a natural step to success. Calling it a no-brainer devalues its incredibly valuable teachings. I have a chance at being successful in my current start-up in part because of the issues I had in my previous one.

Secondly, it over-simplifies the definition of success. Is wandering the oppressive halls of a Microsoft really success? Sure, for Bill Gates, Microsoft is a success. But it didn't become a success through the oppressiveness of its halls - the most valuable game-changing moves happened long before it was a huge mega-corporation, when it was busy building things like MS DOS and Windows and setting up all the dominos to fall in the right place.

It's an interesting thought overall, but I don't really see the value of applying it so directly to business or careers.
I agree that it's not going to hang with a lot of normal gasoline cars, but considering how far electric cars have come in such a short time (momentarily exclude the fact that there were electric cars in the early 1900s that were an evolutionary dead end), I think that may change before too long.

Also, I believe that monkeying with a manual clutch is a misfeature (witness twin clutch type sequential manuals) and that loud engines are also just a matter of opinion, or only so popular because of the fast cars they represent, not the other way around. I think if/when electric cars are the fastest thing around there will be a lot of car guys who want nothing to do with the current side-effect of performance.

(Also, big ups for track time. I haven't worked up the courage to get out there with mine yet.)
What's your point, consumer-led development doesn't code protocol stacks? True enough, but how important is that? SMS was "a feature of the environment" that Twitter took advantage of. But without SMS it could have used email or IM or Morse telegraph or whatever was to hand. I don't think that supports your argument.
suggestion: remove the brushed gray background on the website, it makes the site look cheap.
"As background, fusion is the physical principle by which the sun produces heat and sunlight as it fuses together hydrogen atoms, not to mention being the chemical reaction that unleashes the H-bomb's lethal and terrifying force."

On reading this I was doubting the value of the article. I shall continue . . .

edit: Later on there is also the following

The exhibit "tried to explain to people how the reactor would work, why it was a good thing (no radioactive waste left after the reaction, for one, and no greenhouse gases are produced) and why it was hard to do."

I'm getting out of my depth here but it was my understanding that thermal fusion releases large numbers of neutrons which lead to the containment vessel to slowly become radioactive. I would love to be corrected.
Final paragraph:

"Sometimes your research should be based not on how glorious success might be, but on how little you will have lost if you screw up."

Fair enough. But -- there should be outliers. Apollo. Hubble. Manhattan Project. Genome Project. There's a ton of small, incremental science being funded in the US. There should also be some big, ambitious science. Both approaches are valid and useful.

And this probably applies to startups as well.
> The vector of innovation has changed. It used to be that innovation started with NASA, flowed to the military, then to the enterprise, and finally to the consumer.

Huh? NASA didn't produce much innovation. Bell Labs did. Edison did. GE did. Heck, even GM and Ford had their day. NASA - not so much.

Even if we restrict ourselves to innovation by govt organizations, NASA is behind at least two of the national labs.