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  1. Re:I have to ask... by morcheeba · · Score: 2 · on Hitachi's Water-cooled Laptop

    It's a japan-only model for exactly that reason. It'll be a long wait until it's available in
    Ottawa

  2. Re:weather modeling vs weather display by sporktoast · · Score: 2 · on Weather Channel Sponsors OSS ATI Radeon Drivers

    I've already seen about a half dozen posts talking about The Weather Channel's fleet of O2s and how they are going to be headed for the sunset now that SGI is ending production. I guess that must have come from stats at their website or something. (I use Weather Underground, myself.)

    That's all well and good. No complaints from me about redundant posts or anything.
    What I'd like to know is if anyone has an inside lead on exactly when TWC is going to fire-sale these babies, and how to get dibs!

  3. Wunderground by Asgard · · Score: 1 · on End of the Free Internet

    Just do like Weather Underground did and charge $5/year. Easy to afford, cheap enough for lots of people to subscribe, and doesn't face the user with paying $60/mon just to subscribe to 4 websites.

  4. wunderground.com by ghamerly · · Score: 3, Informative · on Low-Budget Home Weather Stations?
    I've been interested in this since I found out about weather underground, which lets you feed your own weather information (gathered from your instruments) to their site for others to look at. They have thousands of people feeding them information. Besides this, they carry National Weather Service and they have a lot of other information that other sites don't seem to have. However, still being a graduate student, I gasped at the prices for a mid-range personal weather station (~$500, from my brief search).

    See wunderground's page on personal weather stations here .

  5. wunderground.com by ghamerly · · Score: 3, Informative · on Low-Budget Home Weather Stations?
    I've been interested in this since I found out about weather underground, which lets you feed your own weather information (gathered from your instruments) to their site for others to look at. They have thousands of people feeding them information. Besides this, they carry National Weather Service and they have a lot of other information that other sites don't seem to have. However, still being a graduate student, I gasped at the prices for a mid-range personal weather station (~$500, from my brief search).

    See wunderground's page on personal weather stations here .

  6. And the current South Pole temperature is... by TrollMan+5000 · · Score: 0 · on Wearable Computer Expedition Reaches South Pole

    Click here

    Makes me real glad I live in Florida!

  7. BRR!! by Safety+Cap · · Score: 1 · on IceCube Neutrino Telescope

    Check this out before you go: current Antartica weather.

  8. Subscription model that could work (wunderground) by Brian+Stretch · · Score: 3, Interesting · on LWN in Trouble

    Weather Underground has a neat subscription model: pay $5/year and they shut off the ads. Ads are a minor annoyance on my cable modem feed, but I subscribed just because they're my favorite weather site. LWN might want to charge a bit more, and/or make shutting off the ads a user-selectable option (targeted ads can be informative), and definitely offer payment via PayPal as well as credit cards, but it's the most plausible revenue model I've seen.

  9. Weather Underground did it *right* by ChuckRoast · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Salon Goes For Annoying Jump-Through Ads
    The Weather Underground was doing those annoying pop-up ads. However, they went one step beyond and offered an additional option: You can pay $5US/year to get an ad-free login ID. That, my friends, rulz.

    For sites I hit daily, like that one and this one, I'd gladly fork over money to get rid of the annoying ads! I just hope people don't start abusing (sharing) their login ID/Passwords. I'm sure some simple scripting would ferret out those abusers for appropriate treatment.

  10. Re:Been done... by John+Whitley · · Score: 2 · on Salon Goes For Annoying Jump-Through Ads
    If you don't want to see them subscribe to Salon.

    Hear, hear! It's one thing for a site to just have obnoxious ads, but it's wholly another for that site to have a combination of ads and ad-free subscription. I've taken advantage of this already on a couple of sites that I want to support. E.g. Sluggy Freelance (one of my fave webcomics) and The Weather Underground both have ad-free subscription services that I've chosen to use.</Shameless Plug>

    In fact, this is even better for my personal web usage style than ads, because I virtually NEVER click through, except to occasionlly support a site by clicking through! It's ironic that the 'net is my primary source of pre-purchase information, yet web ads rarely if ever play a part in that process.

  11. Too bad it's raining here... by jason_z28 · · Score: 1 · on Total Solar Eclipse

    in Chicago. Here is a cool weather site if anyone is interested:
    Weather Underground
    Jason

  12. aurora-underground.org? by spinfire · · Score: 2 · on Let Your Computer Watch For Auroras!
    What this site needs to become is sort of like a Weather Underground for auroras. It certainly would be nice to know a forecast for stuff like this as it is hard to encounter unless you spend your days staring at the sky (as this guy's computer can).

    Keep up the good work, its neat to see genuinely useful sites like this.

  13. Re:Fighting the wrong company? Question by HerrNewton · · Score: 3 · on Bezos Responds to Tim O'Reilly's Open Letter

    I've never bought anything from their online store, but B&N's campus bookstore arm is quite evil. My school recently released control of its bookstore to B&N. What happened? Textbook shortages, longer lines, and -- worst of all -- much higher prices. Not only did we lose our 10% discount, B&N actually increased prices by another 5% or so if my comparisson shopping is correct.

    And now... now they are building a superstore north of campus, in the middle of friggin nowhere relative to the campus proper and the residence halls. At the very least, it's a several block hike. You may say, "big deal... I can actually get some excercise" but we're talking the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Most people buy their books for the spring semester when they come back after break, first week or second week in January. Last year, 1999, the temps were about -30 without the wind chill and substantially colder. Don't believe me? Check out Jan uary 13, 1999 in North Dakota.



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  14. Hope the honeymoon is going well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on John Carmack on Coding a Linux IP Stack & Winmodem

    Congrats John,
    Hope the weather is nice and the surf is kicking. Itchi

  15. In the latest Scientific American by 1010011010 · · Score: 2 · on Liquid Ocean on Europa?

    http://www.sciam.com/

    Unfortunately, you can't read current articles on-line. Subscribe! It's a great mag.

    One of the interesting bits in the article was that the Russian Vostok [2] outpost in Antartica is right on top of an under-the-ice lake, al-la Europa. They are going to field-test the Europa explorer equipment on it -- satellites and robots. Two robots are proposed; a "cryobot: and "hydrobot". The cryobot would look at the ice and melt a hole down into the water. The hydrobot would look at the water.

    There's also an article at Nasa about life on Europa.