I know you were speaking ironically, but I've hired goats for old-field recovery (rehabbing a field site that infilled with exotic shrubs like english/eurasian privet, honeysuckles, multiflora rose, buckthorn, russian and autumn olive).
They bring in the goats, stake them with a 15-20' chain and let them eat to their heart's content. You're paying for transportation to the site, veterinary care, water, and supplemental feed (the food quality is so bad, the goats can starve to death packed full of roughage).
We did a chunk of land like this, and a chunk of land with volunteers with swedish axes, saws, and loppers. The goats did a more thorough job and MUCH faster (and you didn't have to burn a brush pile after). The only downside to the goats is they're non-selective... you can't leave any nice native species you find (bye bye hazelnut!).
Hm, only 675 days? Crichton wasn't supposed to find his way back to earth for real until the 4th season (unless you count when he accidentally showed up before he left).
Concentrating all that sunlight on a dark object (solar cell) in space, and the only way to get rid of the heat is by radiating it... I just don't see how it's possible.
The more interesting tidbit in this release, to me, is that he's apparently planning to do larger-format Li cells in the new battery factory. I can't imagine doing grid-level storage in something like a billion 18650 cells (a million of them is roughly 10 mWh)... at some point you're going to need to produce something more like this (about the equivalent of 700 18650s): http://www.ev-power.eu/Winston...
Seems like the dumbest design for a ship of war possible.
Huge, nigh-unstoppably powered, armored, and defended ship. Let's put the bridge in a thin shell at the end of a pylon so everyone can have windows, I guess?
I'd have buried it deep in the middle of the ship and used some of that magic future technology, or even normal today-technology HD video feeds from redundant points all over the hull.
Ironic, because the base model used to be available without A/C or even a radio in some models. Now everything is all bundled together and you don't have the stripper option anymore.
My dad used to have an F100. Headliner was optional (bare metal roof), no A/C, no heater fan, no radio, manual trans, if seatbelts weren't government-mandated, it wouldn't have had those either.
Look at the cheapest model F150 now. Auto standard, A/C, cargo light, 4 speaker stereo, DRLs, etc.
Just give me a skin with some freaking windows borders.
I loved Opera 12 and I'm dying for Vivaldi to bring back that vibe, but I stop using it after 10 minutes every time because I accidentally click windows behind it because there are NO BORDERS.
If the new mobile mail app is part of their big push, then they're in trouble.
That thing is DOG slow on a Nexus 5 (a quad core phone with 2gb RAM). I can't even imagine how crap it is on anything older. Every time they push it back on me, I have to go to settings->classic mail experience.
Not to mention the fact I have to use the browser version instead of their app due to mysterious random "oops your battery is dead" moments and the ridiculous number of permissions their app wants.
And can we talk about reliability? 50-50 whether the desktop site loads videos correctly, they seem to have 4 different commenting systems with the same backend (one of which never shows comments), and constant "oops, server error" issues. This last block I'm separating because the crapitude predates her, but Yahoo can't seem to code its way out of a wet paper bag.
Yes, this is the world Intel fanboys have been awaiting when they crow about the imminent demise of AMD in every benchmark suite I've seen.
I buy all AMD no matter what, just to keep the CPU market a market, not a monopoly. Sadly, since their fab spin-off and the downsizing of their R&D department, they probably are in a death spiral now...
Ours has a whole section with lots of drawers of resistors, transistors, 555 timers and other miscellaneous silicon. They've also got tons of electronics kits, irons, tips, solder, wire strippers, etc.
You could easily walk in there with no electronic equipment/parts and walk out with everything needed to build "something" from bare parts, or buy a kit or a raspberry pi (!).
It's super close to an existing Sprint store, so I'll be sad to see it close down:(
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On a related note, my father's iPad overlays every webpage he tries to load with a phony virus warning.
How he managed to install that kind of malware, I have no idea... but clearly they will keep building better idiots.
Then why are you even posting in this story?
You opened up a story about a device targeting someone else's needs to carp about how it sucks because it targets someone else's needs?
Looks like a nice device to me, a step sideways from an iPad.
I know you were speaking ironically, but I've hired goats for old-field recovery (rehabbing a field site that infilled with exotic shrubs like english/eurasian privet, honeysuckles, multiflora rose, buckthorn, russian and autumn olive).
They bring in the goats, stake them with a 15-20' chain and let them eat to their heart's content. You're paying for transportation to the site, veterinary care, water, and supplemental feed (the food quality is so bad, the goats can starve to death packed full of roughage).
We did a chunk of land like this, and a chunk of land with volunteers with swedish axes, saws, and loppers. The goats did a more thorough job and MUCH faster (and you didn't have to burn a brush pile after). The only downside to the goats is they're non-selective... you can't leave any nice native species you find (bye bye hazelnut!).
Sam
Hm, only 675 days? Crichton wasn't supposed to find his way back to earth for real until the 4th season (unless you count when he accidentally showed up before he left).
Sam
How do you get rid of the heat, though?
Concentrating all that sunlight on a dark object (solar cell) in space, and the only way to get rid of the heat is by radiating it... I just don't see how it's possible.
Yup.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
This reminds me way too much of that terrible Sly Stallone Judge Dredd movie. "I can't believe I watched it."
The robot food cart that rolls down the hall saying "Eat recycled food. It's good for the environment and okay for you. "
That IS shocking.
The amount of packaging overhead must be insane to make a bazillion little round cells and fit them in a square box like that.
The more interesting tidbit in this release, to me, is that he's apparently planning to do larger-format Li cells in the new battery factory. I can't imagine doing grid-level storage in something like a billion 18650 cells (a million of them is roughly 10 mWh)... at some point you're going to need to produce something more like this (about the equivalent of 700 18650s):
http://www.ev-power.eu/Winston...
Seems like the dumbest design for a ship of war possible.
Huge, nigh-unstoppably powered, armored, and defended ship. Let's put the bridge in a thin shell at the end of a pylon so everyone can have windows, I guess?
I'd have buried it deep in the middle of the ship and used some of that magic future technology, or even normal today-technology HD video feeds from redundant points all over the hull.
Ironic, because the base model used to be available without A/C or even a radio in some models. Now everything is all bundled together and you don't have the stripper option anymore.
My dad used to have an F100. Headliner was optional (bare metal roof), no A/C, no heater fan, no radio, manual trans, if seatbelts weren't government-mandated, it wouldn't have had those either.
Look at the cheapest model F150 now. Auto standard, A/C, cargo light, 4 speaker stereo, DRLs, etc.
Yeah, but you can still spend 4 hours looking for it.
Just give me a skin with some freaking windows borders.
I loved Opera 12 and I'm dying for Vivaldi to bring back that vibe, but I stop using it after 10 minutes every time because I accidentally click windows behind it because there are NO BORDERS.
Ugh.
Farscape did this best:
Crichton: "Don't move! Or I'll fill you full of....little yellow bolts of light!"
Is it just me, or does this movie sound EXACTLY like Short Circuit, but with the "grittified, modernized" feel to it?
Sam
Damn that Bush/Obama newspeak "manslaughter."
They even traveled back in time and got Ben Jonson off light with his conviction of it in 1598.
ROFL
If the new mobile mail app is part of their big push, then they're in trouble.
That thing is DOG slow on a Nexus 5 (a quad core phone with 2gb RAM). I can't even imagine how crap it is on anything older. Every time they push it back on me, I have to go to settings->classic mail experience.
Not to mention the fact I have to use the browser version instead of their app due to mysterious random "oops your battery is dead" moments and the ridiculous number of permissions their app wants.
And can we talk about reliability? 50-50 whether the desktop site loads videos correctly, they seem to have 4 different commenting systems with the same backend (one of which never shows comments), and constant "oops, server error" issues. This last block I'm separating because the crapitude predates her, but Yahoo can't seem to code its way out of a wet paper bag.
It's a baked casserole, most commonly made from egg noodles... but even more!
Ah, but you "audition" a brand new loaf of bread by tenderly squeezing it, then smelling its subtle aromas, then becoming physically intimate with it.
Sam
Yes, this is the world Intel fanboys have been awaiting when they crow about the imminent demise of AMD in every benchmark suite I've seen.
I buy all AMD no matter what, just to keep the CPU market a market, not a monopoly. Sadly, since their fab spin-off and the downsizing of their R&D department, they probably are in a death spiral now...
Sam
journalctl -f... use whatever tool you want. Just like using tail -f, but eebil because it contains systemd code?
It's the meta-news.
Kit contents:
One (1) bear-poking stick. Yew laminate with polyurethane coating.
One (1) pair running shoes. New Balance model 990v3.
Please specify shoe size in the ordering drop down menu.
Ours has a whole section with lots of drawers of resistors, transistors, 555 timers and other miscellaneous silicon. They've also got tons of electronics kits, irons, tips, solder, wire strippers, etc.
You could easily walk in there with no electronic equipment/parts and walk out with everything needed to build "something" from bare parts, or buy a kit or a raspberry pi (!).
It's super close to an existing Sprint store, so I'll be sad to see it close down :(
Sam