Better than the usual tube announcements:
Archive for November, 2007
No Cause For Concern
Posted in HEH, POLITICS, SECURITY & PRIVACY, WTF? on November 27, 2007 |
Larry Page blogs today: …Our goal is to build 1 gigawatt of renewable energy capacity that is cheaper than coal. We are optimistic that this can be done within years, not decades. If we succeed, it would likely provide a path to replacing a substantial portion of the world’s electricity needs with renewable energy sources. [...]
It’s the Amazon. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) was a nice disruptive strategy. The now much talked about Kindle is merely a distraction from Amazon’s third little disruption – consumers ‘owning’ bandwidth as part of the device purchase rather than having to pay extra on an as-you-go plan. When [...]
Came across this cool site, CARMA, thought I would share: From their site: At its core, Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) is a massive database containing information on the carbon emissions of over 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies worldwide. Power generation accounts for 40% of all carbon emissions in the United States and [...]
If you think electrons infrastructure is and easy update, ethanol may be more difficult. NYC finally turns off the last DC circuits: The direct current conversion in Lower Manhattan started in 1928, and an engineer then predicted that it would take 45 years, according to Mr. Cunningham. “An optimistic prediction since we still have it [...]
Android Schwartz Dalvic
Posted in GEEKDOM, HEH, SHINY, TELECOM on November 14, 2007 |
This should get interesting. On one hand you have Jonathan Schwartz saying this on his blog. On the other you have Google’s Android and their Dalvic VM. Looks like the lawyers (perhaps, heh) and Java programmers are the winners, perhaps all of us as well. Google’s Dalvik VM gives something for everyone, I love it [...]









