I'm not a wastrel, but I find my way of life much less stressful, not worrying about the $0.01s
Our two entertainment areas combine to use 100W when they are "off" (when no one is watching them).
For the cost of two power strips and having to wait 30 seconds to watch tv, we save around $150/yr on our power bill.
Tack on power savings by making some other relatively minor changes and we save about ~$38/mo ($30 of that is the entertainment center, converting to a low-power home file server, and turning off the rarely used fridge).
Frankly, I prefer keeping an extra $450 in my bank account each year instead of sending it to the power company.
FiOS appears to download it on demand at startup. By the time the STB has booted (about a minute), all the guide data is there.
I keep our non-DVR equipment on a power strip and turn off all devices when we are done watching - saves about 100W total (about $11 / mo for power). Tack on the home server that was replaced with a low power alternative and the spare fridge that we didn't really use and we're down about $30 / mo.
So I'm going to lose connection every time someone stands in between me and the light emitter?
I didn't RTFA, but if the system were based on diffuse, ambient light in the room, then that shouldn't be a problem.
I swear that I remember a similar idea from around 10 years ago where they wanted to use fluorescent lights in much the same way... switch them on and off thousands of times per second and you could use them as a data channel if your device had an optical sensor. By setting the hi and low thresholds appropriately, it didn't matter if the sensor had line of sight or not; the reflected light was enough to keep the data flowing.
I think that article came out right about the same time that the security community realized that many network switches/hubs were vulnerable to snooping by observing their LEDs. I guess one man's bug is another man's feature.
Tyson Foods burned two dozen Mexicans alive in Georgia in the 1980s because they chained the fire exits shut to keep them from stealing chicken parts (a manager spent 2 years in prison for twenty five horrible deaths) and I'll pay MORE for generic meat than buy Tyson.
You are basing your opinion of a whole company and all of its current and future products on the actions of a small group of people who made an error in judgment 20+ years ago? Sounds pretty petty to me.
- Ryan Jacobson Union Carbide, Project Manager Bhopal Division
However a friend of mine who is a balloonist years ago told me what happened when he used a cell phone in flight - chaos!... multiple cell towers cannot easily handle being contacted by a single phone moving 500miles an hour.
Holy shit! What type of balloon was your friend piloting? Was it one of those Led Zeppelins I've heard so much about?
so Wal-Mart had an upper hand to threaten the termination of the non-exclusive deal because that would significantly affect Vlasic the supplier by undercutting its product distribution..
"So Google had an upper hand to threaten the termination of the non-exclusive deal because that would have a significant negative affect on Yahoo revenue, and, in turn, tank their stock."
how can a non-exclusive deal weaken yahoo, they can choose to use a different provider or thier own ads at any point?
Vlasic was in a non-exclusive deal with Wal-Mart:
Vlasic Pickles was roped into a contract with Wal-Mart, in which Wal-Mart sold a 3 gallon jar of whole pickles for $2.97. Wal-Mart sold 240,000 gallons of pickles per week. But the price of the 3 gallon jar was so low, that it vastly undercut Vlasic's sales of 8 ounce and 16 ounce jars of cut pickles; further, Vlasic only made a few pennies per 3 gallon jar. With its profits tumbling, Vlasic asked Wal-Mart for the right to raise the price per 3 gallon jar to $3.49, and according to a Vlasic executive, Wal-Mart threatened that if Vlasic tried to back out of this feature of the contract, Wal-Mart would cease carrying any Vlasic product. Eventually, a Wal-Mart executive said, "Well, we've done to pickles what we did to orange juice. We've killed it"--meaning it had wiped out competitor products. Finally, it allowed Vlasic to raise prices; but in January 2001, Vlasic filed for bankruptcy.source
If you take the Google Maps version and the "screenshot" version into Photoshop, layer them, and set the top layer to "Difference", it is obvious it is a photochop.
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Exactly! And by "exactly", I mean completely wrong.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
So your theory is that the items with the lowest upfront cost will ultimately save you money?
How quaint.
Our two entertainment areas combine to use 100W when they are "off" (when no one is watching them).
For the cost of two power strips and having to wait 30 seconds to watch tv, we save around $150/yr on our power bill.
Tack on power savings by making some other relatively minor changes and we save about ~$38/mo ($30 of that is the entertainment center, converting to a low-power home file server, and turning off the rarely used fridge).
Frankly, I prefer keeping an extra $450 in my bank account each year instead of sending it to the power company.
FiOS appears to download it on demand at startup. By the time the STB has booted (about a minute), all the guide data is there.
I keep our non-DVR equipment on a power strip and turn off all devices when we are done watching - saves about 100W total (about $11 / mo for power). Tack on the home server that was replaced with a low power alternative and the spare fridge that we didn't really use and we're down about $30 / mo.
Thanks, Kill-A-Watt!
I didn't RTFA, but if the system were based on diffuse, ambient light in the room, then that shouldn't be a problem.
I swear that I remember a similar idea from around 10 years ago where they wanted to use fluorescent lights in much the same way ... switch them on and off thousands of times per second and you could use them as a data channel if your device had an optical sensor. By setting the hi and low thresholds appropriately, it didn't matter if the sensor had line of sight or not; the reflected light was enough to keep the data flowing.
I think that article came out right about the same time that the security community realized that many network switches/hubs were vulnerable to snooping by observing their LEDs. I guess one man's bug is another man's feature.
Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
What if we tag it "whatcouldpossiblyglowwrong"?
Been there, done that.
Welcome to Slashdot.
I would imagine that one of the goals of the Semantic Web would be that you would tag your photo with:
wife boat latitude longitude timestamp
and then "dark and stormy night in the Atlantic ocean" could be determined without explicit tags.
You are basing your opinion of a whole company and all of its current and future products on the actions of a small group of people who made an error in judgment 20+ years ago? Sounds pretty petty to me.
- Ryan Jacobson
Union Carbide, Project Manager
Bhopal Division
But the unit did have a kill switch ... and it was set to ON. The designers should have provided clarification in the functional spec.
Holy shit! What type of balloon was your friend piloting? Was it one of those Led Zeppelins I've heard so much about?
That's the exact same mission statement as Generation Investment Management.
"So Google had an upper hand to threaten the termination of the non-exclusive deal because that would have a significant negative affect on Yahoo revenue, and, in turn, tank their stock."
Vlasic was in a non-exclusive deal with Wal-Mart:
Vlasic Pickles was roped into a contract with Wal-Mart, in which Wal-Mart sold a 3 gallon jar of whole pickles for $2.97. Wal-Mart sold 240,000 gallons of pickles per week. But the price of the 3 gallon jar was so low, that it vastly undercut Vlasic's sales of 8 ounce and 16 ounce jars of cut pickles; further, Vlasic only made a few pennies per 3 gallon jar. With its profits tumbling, Vlasic asked Wal-Mart for the right to raise the price per 3 gallon jar to $3.49, and according to a Vlasic executive, Wal-Mart threatened that if Vlasic tried to back out of this feature of the contract, Wal-Mart would cease carrying any Vlasic product. Eventually, a Wal-Mart executive said, "Well, we've done to pickles what we did to orange juice. We've killed it"--meaning it had wiped out competitor products. Finally, it allowed Vlasic to raise prices; but in January 2001, Vlasic filed for bankruptcy. source
cough ... JungleDisk ... cough
Chevy Chase and the estate of Generalissimo Francisco Franco hold joint rights to that meme.
If you take the Google Maps version and the "screenshot" version into Photoshop, layer them, and set the top layer to "Difference", it is obvious it is a photochop.
Actually, the youngest college student graduated when he was 10 years old.
The same thing that happens when a drunk takes out a telephone phone.
I think you mean "Boiling a Frog".
Chumps. They need to step up to the big leagues and use an oscillating Cooling Apparatus.
This is Slashdot; isn't that a given?