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From the report linked to in the article, the data was collected when users went to a site (pcpitstop.com) and allowed their computers to be scanned so that the software could find "performance improvements" and make suggestions for their machine. Although I'm sure it was buried in the fine print of the TOS, I wonder how many people realized they were allowing this type of information to be sold to data mining and/or marketing companies.

My grandparents had a treadmill that didn't use electricity, however. Theoretically, one could make a treadmill generate electricity (presumably using an incline), but it wouldn't be as efficient as a stationary cycle or other device would be.

I live in an apartment (unfortunately making the devices somewhat impractical in the first place) and walk to work. Also, I should point out that when I'm talking about "my" electrical needs, I'm referring to the ones I actually pay for - i.e., I'm not counting the power I use when I'm at work. At home, I rarely use air conditioning. Probably the single biggest consumer of electricity in my apartment is my refrigerator. I've forgotten how many kilowatt-hours I tend to use in a month, but I believe it's less than 1/day (IIRC, I use about 20 KwH/month - but your figure of 20/day means I'm going to have to look that up when I get home).

Also, doing a little Google search, I found a bike that claims to generate 400 watts, and a pedal device that claims to generate up to 1000 watts. Of course, I have no idea how sustainable those powers are.

This is true. I had seen survey results that showed that "coolness" was like fifth place in the list of reasons that people bought an iPod. But marketing is still important. The only marketing I have seen for direct competitors (i.e. non-phones) was one billboard for a Creative Zen. That's it. Otherwise, the most that most people that knew that there were competitors was at the store.

Survey story & chart:
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/11/emw3053 91.htm
http://www.emediawire.com/prfiles/2005/11/01/30539 1/chart19.gif

This is true. I had seen survey results that showed that "coolness" was like fifth place in the list of reasons that people bought an iPod. But marketing is still important. The only marketing I have seen for direct competitors (i.e. non-phones) was one billboard for a Creative Zen. That's it. Otherwise, the most that most people that knew that there were competitors was at the store.

Survey story & chart:
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/11/emw3053 91.htm
http://www.emediawire.com/prfiles/2005/11/01/30539 1/chart19.gif

In other words, WW007D?

I want a Minox B. No, I don't want to pay for an *actual* Minox; don't have enough banks robbed yet. Also, tiny film cassettes, finicky jewel-like mechanisms, etc.

What I want is a modern, digital, Minox-alike that is:

a) The size of a fat thumb or however you'd describe one of these: http://www.kameramuseum.de/1minox/minox-b.html

b) Not notably ugly and lo-res like this: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/prweb195 316.htm

(The size of that thing is OK, though, but it's ugly in colors and shape; I could overlook those things, or cover all the but lens with a paper bag, if the resolution wasn't so poor.)

c) more brick-like than some of Sony's smallest, which otherwise are quite nice; I don't like the roundedness of some of the U-Series, but the the U50 (swivel and all) is close to a digital Minox. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Sony/sony_ds cu50.asp I like that it uses AAA batteries, too; a single AA would be even better than 2 AAAs, but life isn't perfect. Maybe I'll find a good deal from eBay on a U50 ...

timothy

Yeah Hydropower is hard to beat .

The dam on the columbia is a monster : Grand Coulee Dam :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulee_dam

Largest hydroelectricity generator in the United States, third largest in the world.

http://www.emediawire.com/prfiles/2005/02/22/21158 3/CycoGrandCouleeDamTurbine.jpg

Those are ppl walking on ONE of the turbines .

Pretty awesome when u consider the scale .

Ex-MislTech

I'm sorry, however the use of your storyline is not covered under copyright.
However, had you chosen to patent it, you would have a case.
Have a nice day.

I believe you are mistaken in your analys.

It doesn't mean it "sounds simular to psychology 101" it is what you think to read. It's just flattering you praise my ability to recognise psychological patterns and making an analogy as accurate it makes you suspect I speak out of experience or am writing from my subcontious.

There was no personal information in my post, but mostly it seems most slashdotters seem to relate best to "highschool dynamics" and analogies relating to that. I do not speak in terms of "smarter", "the whole school", cause I haven't been there in quite a while. I don't mirror myself to my "popularity" to define myself or to place myself into society (nor my intelligence, nor my education, nor my possesions).

As a matter of fact when you get into the "real world" (I'm assuming you're a highschool kid) popularity matters not. The results you deliver matter, your actions and how you take care of your family and people who have value in your life and not how "cool" people think you are.

You don't have to agree persé, people disagree, not everyone thinks the same. Doesn't mean the other has "unresolved social issues" when one doesn't share your views or misses the motivation of certain comments which imply IE-usage is down and decling. Exact percentages are impossible to show. Cause ofcourse windowsupdate will have a near 100% usage IE browsers.

Now, you say "You cannot neglect 80%" (as that seems to be your point). You cannot neglect that 20% goes out to actively download a browser when one is installed in the OS already, which caused IE to win the browserwars. In my view Microsoft is trying to stop people migrating away and implementing features which weren't planned to keep up.
So to you, Microsoft has remained its identity of "staying steady on front in a dominating position" when they sortof lost interest before?

1: Tamiflu doesn't cure the disease, it "treats" the flu, meaning it lessens the symptoms of it. One of the reasons people die from the flu is their lymph system becomes so clogged due to immunological response they literrally cease breathing and die, which is why tamiflu helps as it lessens the response and keeps most people from dieing.

2: How can the bird flu develope a resistance to it, especially since it isn't an epidemic yet? How many people have been infected? How many DECADES did it take for us to get antibiotic-resistant bacteria? The article bases it's premise on 2 people dieing. Is that thorough research?

3: Donald Rumsfield has lots of stock in the company which produces tamiflu, so there is a polticial reason for the BBC to talk about it.

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/11/emw3044 11.htm

4: Allright, now I'v been reading the peanut butter factory material (conspiracy nut --> nuttier than a tin of PB --> Get a bunch of them together...Peanut butter factory) for quite some time, mabye 3 or 4 years. See this finely tuned BS detector, notice the flashing lights and buzzing sounds indicating a positive affirmation?

Notice how they build you upto the conclusion in the first "paragraph" of worldwide pandemic by stating how many people have died? Then they go onto talk about how some guy happened to die from bird flu when being given tamiflu and it not curing him.

But here's the kicker; the last 2 paragraphs call for...guess? More funding for big pharma and reassuring us we're protected by the government.

The BBC has done this stuff before, and they'll do it again. Usually their reporting is pretty good, but sometimes they crank out a cowpatty like this.

5: And for those of you who are afraid of bird flu, it's a hoax. The WHO has been yelling at the top of it's lungs for YEARS about a worldwide pandemic coming out of chinese chicken feedlots and nothing has come yet. Has it happened? Yep, several times infact, and it comes every year right when our bodies shut down vitamin D production due to less light decreasing our immunity to said diseases. It comes from foreign countries who already have regular flu, and it mutates in feedlots and in sweatshops year round and you get it from opening that nice new fresh third-world-smelling toy truck or consumer electronic. Is a massive worldwide plague going to happen? It's on such a low order of probability that it might as well not happen.

I personally am a believer in preperation for any event, but letting the government take care of you is hogwash, which is why they're encouraging people not to worry about it and let them take care of it. Because if canadian geese begin turning up dead all over the place (good riddance; it's overdue) in the USA due to birdflu, then bush will have his martial law because it's a pandemic; the laws are already in place, they were passed SPECIFICLALY DUE TO bird flu if you check around a few months ago. And it'll eventually find it's way over here mind you, they know it and we know it. As birds migrate from China to Europe (and have already) they'll pass it along to birds there which'll pass it along to birds here somehow; chicken feed, imported chicken, ect. They want people so afraid of dieing by going out doors that they'll do anything the government says to survive.

I'm not sure who's next in the direct line of the spammish succession, but there are certainly enough acknowledged royal bastards to pass the throne to, if need be. (I'm not sure if King Al Ral has any jewels to turn over.)

The recounts not happening correctly is not from a lack of effort. In fact, quite a bit of effort is being used by the Ohio election supervisors to keep any irregulatities under the table.

Until they are indicted.

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/9/emw28492 6.htm

The second link in the summary links to eMediaWire which has Spammer Sues Spam Victim, Continues Spamming Him as the headline.

Look Here

but it's not all that useful if you want to have some more control over what is played.

You might want to check out the Keyspan Express Remote for the Airport Express. Just announced today, it plugs into your AE and you can control it. It might be what you're looking for.

While everyone is scrambling to prevent another Florida incident, these people are questioning the results even if we get it perfect. They want to measure the accuracy of the voting system itself by comparing it to a virtual election using approval voting.

I'd seen a few or more articles about other dynamically reconfigurable chips such as this until now. In which point is IBM's one different from others? Making a single chip autonomic in itself is only about packing, I suppose.

Schedule II (look at Methylphenidate and Coacaine)

Wellness resources.

Problems with ritalin

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/1/emw97845 .htm should provide some ammo they can understand.