The only flaw is that some times it can be hard to find a spesific topic even with knowing a few keywords.
Totally agree. But I fixed this by mapping a Google "I'm feeling lucky" search to a Chrome bookmark keyword. Now I just type "w search-terms" and it nearly always teleports me to the right wikipedia page. Like so:
Even more sadly, this is not news. IE has been effectively sabotaging the non-IE community for years. The need to specifically code for IE6 and IE7 due to their crappy compliance with web standards has swallowed immense amounts of global developer effort, which could otherwise have been invested in improving the interwebs for everyone.
That thing was way ahead of its time. But Gates and Balmer killed it. and now Allard is off doing something else...
Yes, it was way ahead of its time. Or in other words, it never existed. It was just a concept. All the PR fluff you saw was just Microsoft's way of saying "we got nothing, but please don't buy an iPad".
Much like Apple's "accidental leaks" of a future 7" miniPad because they're sincerely afraid of the Nexus 7.
Electric blankets are nonsense. You are a 100W radiator. If you're cold, you don't need to apply heat, you need insulation.
Alternatively, you could sleep with someone to double the wattage. I didn't mention this option in my first post because I assumed most Slashdot readers would find this alternative prohibitively expensive.
Just like in the winter you can save a ton on your heating bills if you get an electric blanket. One for the couch and one for the bed. The heat is applied directly to the skin and you're warmer.
Electric blankets are nonsense. You are a 100W radiator. If you're cold, you don't need to apply heat, you need insulation. Go to IKEA (Swedish company, they know how to deal with cold) and get a thicker blanket. A good blanket will have you and your bed warm within 5 minutes of getting in bed.
Still don't believe me? There are lots of sleeping bags on the market for sleeping outdoors in temperatures as low as -40F (= -40C).
[the Higgs field]... then fills the universe and binds to particles giving them mass.
I'm not a physicist, so please correct me if I misunderstood. Are you saying that this field surrounds us and penetrates us, and that it binds the galaxy together?
Considering Sarkozy got only 1% less of the vote than Hollande in the first round, it's far too early to call it. All the folks that voted for other candidates will pick 1 of the 2 in the next round, and considering the massive amount of votes that went to Le Pen...we might very well be seeing more of Sarkozy.
Maybe, but according to exit polls in round 1, the 18% who voted for Le Pen are only leaning 48/31 for Sarkozy over Hollande, while the 11% who voted for Mélenchon are leaning 83/6 for Hollande over Sarkozy. The poll shows Hollande leading by 9 points, 54.5% vs 45.5%.
Who modded this clown up? Almost every statement he makes is plain wrong.
I know my experience with meeting Greenpace activists in Toronto in the 1980's -- all excited by Fuel Cell Technology could not comprehend that the Hydrogen Economy relied on having abundant Nuclear Energy. They were not the brightest lot on the block.
The activists were right, you were wrong. The hydrogen economy doesn't require nuclear. Renewables would do equally well. Electrolyzers aren't very expensive per kilowatt and can run on intermittent electricity. Hydrogen is often pushed as a possible way of solving the whole intermittency issue for solar and wind power.
They also did not seem to understand that Wind Turbines are great bird whackers and kill more birds per year than lit up skyscrappers in Toronto.
I don't know about Toronto but here are the stats for Denmark, which gets 25% of its electricity from wind power. They have about 30,000 annual bird deaths from wind turbines, 1 million from cars, 2 million from window collisions, and 5 million from cats.
the fabrication of solar cells required extremely toxic chemicals such as Selinium and also required large tracts of land
Yes, some types of solar cells use toxic chemicals, but so do lots of other industries. As long as they get recycled there's no huge problem with this. But other solar cell types only use silicon, which is 100% harmless. Land requirements are large compared to nuclear, but tiny compared to bioenergy. Solar cells on just a few percent of the world's deserts could supply all the energy we need, but they could also be distributed over other "dead" surfaces like rooftops, parking lots, roadsides, etc.
From these people I met, if they were representative, I would be surprised that they could calculate any energy efficiencies.
I'm an energy system researcher with no connection to Greenpeace, but the research reports they produce are very good. Did you hear about the recent IPCC "scandal" where some highlighted scenarios originated from a Greenpeace study? That wasn't because the IPCC is partisan, but that at least some parts of Greenpeace do impressive work that gets cited in academic studies.
Like I said, they were not the brightest lot on the block. LoL
The whole point of hybrids is this (at least plug-in hybrids, which is the interesting kind):
For everyday commuting, the cars can run on electricity. This not only means no local air pollution in cities, but potentially much less CO2 emissions as well (because an electric motor is about four times more efficient than a typical gasoline engine). Total system emissions are about on par with ordinary gas cars even if electricity comes from crummy old coal plants, and will improve as we introduce more renewables in the electricity system. In countries with a lot of hydro, nuclear and renewables, this is a huge improvement over gas cars, even today.
Another really interesting aspect of plug-in hybrids is that their battery capacity can (in the future) be used as a distributed electricity reserve (or backup), so that we can integrate a lot more intermittent renewables (i.e solar and wind) into our electricity system than otherwise possible. This can work because very few cars run more than two hours per day, and idle the rest of the time. Of course, this requires a smart grid and flexible electricity prices for consumers, but it can be done. In effect, hybrids can help us closer to a CO2-free electricity system.
Its the future potential of hybrids which is fascinating - the hybrids of today are for enthusiasts. But we should be grateful to these early adopters for building the transport technology of the future.
Since their webpage is slashdotted, here is the official press release from the Church of Kopimism:
The Church of Kopimism is recognized by the state of Sweden
Just before Christmas, the Swedish governmental agency Kammarkollegiet registered the Church of Kopimism as a religious organisation. This means that Sweden is the first country to recognize kopimism as a religion.
The Church of Kopimism have tried to become registered as a religious organisation by Kammarkollegiet for more than a year.
- Since Kammarkollegiet has been strict with formalities, we had to apply three times, a happy Gustav Nipe - board chairman for the organisation - says. He continues, I think it might have something to do with the governmental organisations abiding by a very copyright friendly attitude, with a twisted view on copying.
For the Church of Kopimism, information is holy and copying is a sacrament. Information holds a value, in itself and in what it contains, and the value multiplies through copying. Therefore, copying is central for the organisation and its members.
Being recognized by the state of Sweden is a large step for all of kopimi. Hopefully, this is one step towards the day when we can live out our faith without fear of persecution, says Isak Gerson, spiritual leader of the Church of Kopimism.
The Church of Kopimism is a religious organisation with roots from 2010. The organisation formalizes a community that's been well spread for a long time already. The community of kopimi requires no formal membership. You just have to feel a calling to worship what is the holiest of the holiest, information and copy. To do this, we organize kopyactings - religious services - where the kopimists share information with eachother through copying and remix.
1) Event happens
2) Reporter writes article.
3) Subject editor edits article for content correctness.
4) Copy editor edits article for grammer and style, also writes headline.
5) Article is published online and in print.
a bit of Apple news from late last week that got overshadowed by the headlines about Steve Jobs
1. Discover an embarrassing vulnerability in your OS.
2. Relapse into fatal cancer and resign as CEO, drowning your goof in media noise.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!
You have to admire the guy's genius, dedication, and unmatched PR skills...
You're absolutely right. I simply cannot rationalize how you can love science and yet be a fan of Fox News - the network that is deliberately fanning the flames of science hatred across the country.
I remember I reacted the same way when Disney took over Pixar, but in retrospect that didn't end up too horribly (although the latest Cars sequel is Disney-scary...). Anyway, the "don't break it"-quote shows that EA execs are aware of the risks, so maybe there's some small hope they won't completely fuck up PopCap?
for example: do you think bin laden would be alive or dead right now if the intel that led to him were more widely available?
You're right, he'd probably be alive now. But if widely available intel had forced the government to be more open when we started our underhanded weaponizing and financing of his organization in the first place, he'd probably have been relatively harmless in the grand scheme of things.
I know which of these alternative realities I would choose to live in...
Every day I'm happier I have an ipod touch to do i-stuff with, and a plain ole VM pay as you go phone for that old fashioned "telephone call" functionality. The coolest part is when I drain the ipod battery from screwing around with music / videos / games, I can still do the important stuff like make and receive phone calls. I know people whom absolutely squeal when angry birds fly off with their battery charge and then they can't talk on the phone or text for a couple hours. Lately I've been facetiming thru open wifis instead of making phone calls on my old fashioned cellphone, if everyone I knew did facetime, I'd probably ditch the phone entirely.
I considered modding you +1 funny for making such a good argument and then completely contradicting yourself with your last words, but then I decided to be nice about it and just mock you publicly instead.
"An explosion was heard after 06:14 JST on 15 March in unit 2, possibly damaging the pressure-suppression system, which is at the bottom part of the containment vessel."
"On 30 March, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (JNISA) reiterated concerns about a possible unit 2 breach at either the suppression pool, or the reactor vessel."
"On 27 March, TEPCO reported measurements of very high radiation levels of over 1000 mSv/h in the basement of the unit 2 turbine building"
"On April 11, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency officially raised the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi to Level 7 on the INES scale. This makes Fukushima the second Level 7 "major accident" in the history of the nuclear industry."
Graphics mean NOTHING. Not even worthy of mention. Not even an "it doesn't even look good", like that's the last saving grace of a crap game.
I strongly disagree. Top-rate graphics is a large component of the strange magic that lifts a game from 'very good' to 'absolutely f*cking brilliant'. BUT the graphics don't have to be pretty in the conventional sense, as long as they have *charm*.
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The only flaw is that some times it can be hard to find a spesific topic even with knowing a few keywords.
Totally agree. But I fixed this by mapping a Google "I'm feeling lucky" search to a Chrome bookmark keyword. Now I just type "w search-terms" and it nearly always teleports me to the right wikipedia page. Like so:
http://pastebin.com/QX8t1fwS
(Posted to Pastebin because I can't get the Slashdot message composer to print this correctly.)
Sadly. Damn IE slowing down even non-IE users!
Even more sadly, this is not news. IE has been effectively sabotaging the non-IE community for years. The need to specifically code for IE6 and IE7 due to their crappy compliance with web standards has swallowed immense amounts of global developer effort, which could otherwise have been invested in improving the interwebs for everyone.
Just die already.
That thing was way ahead of its time. But Gates and Balmer killed it. and now Allard is off doing something else...
Yes, it was way ahead of its time. Or in other words, it never existed. It was just a concept. All the PR fluff you saw was just Microsoft's way of saying "we got nothing, but please don't buy an iPad".
Much like Apple's "accidental leaks" of a future 7" miniPad because they're sincerely afraid of the Nexus 7.
Your little brain freeze notwithstanding, that was an exemplary summary of a complex report. The mea culpa is also appreciated.
For those who want to read a little more, there's a very good article over at Ars Technica, which in turn links to the full English report from the Japanese parliamentary inquiry as well as an IEEE Spectrum account of the immediate aftermath.
Electric blankets are nonsense. You are a 100W radiator. If you're cold, you don't need to apply heat, you need insulation.
Alternatively, you could sleep with someone to double the wattage. I didn't mention this option in my first post because I assumed most Slashdot readers would find this alternative prohibitively expensive.
Just like in the winter you can save a ton on your heating bills if you get an electric blanket. One for the couch and one for the bed. The heat is applied directly to the skin and you're warmer.
Electric blankets are nonsense. You are a 100W radiator. If you're cold, you don't need to apply heat, you need insulation. Go to IKEA (Swedish company, they know how to deal with cold) and get a thicker blanket. A good blanket will have you and your bed warm within 5 minutes of getting in bed.
Still don't believe me? There are lots of sleeping bags on the market for sleeping outdoors in temperatures as low as -40F (= -40C).
[the Higgs field] ... then fills the universe and binds to particles giving them mass.
I'm not a physicist, so please correct me if I misunderstood. Are you saying that this field surrounds us and penetrates us, and that it binds the galaxy together?
(Score:6, Awesome)
Facebook Adds 96 Million Shares, Will Privacy Get Worse After IPO?
Another question I've been mulling over lately is: will Kim Kardashian become less private now that she's dating Kanye West?
Considering Sarkozy got only 1% less of the vote than Hollande in the first round, it's far too early to call it. All the folks that voted for other candidates will pick 1 of the 2 in the next round, and considering the massive amount of votes that went to Le Pen...we might very well be seeing more of Sarkozy.
Maybe, but according to exit polls in round 1, the 18% who voted for Le Pen are only leaning 48/31 for Sarkozy over Hollande, while the 11% who voted for Mélenchon are leaning 83/6 for Hollande over Sarkozy. The poll shows Hollande leading by 9 points, 54.5% vs 45.5%.
Who modded this clown up? Almost every statement he makes is plain wrong.
I know my experience with meeting Greenpace activists in
Toronto in the 1980's -- all excited by Fuel Cell Technology
could not comprehend that the Hydrogen Economy relied
on having abundant Nuclear Energy. They were not the
brightest lot on the block.
The activists were right, you were wrong. The hydrogen economy doesn't require nuclear. Renewables would do equally well. Electrolyzers aren't very expensive per kilowatt and can run on intermittent electricity. Hydrogen is often pushed as a possible way of solving the whole intermittency issue for solar and wind power.
They also did not seem to understand that Wind Turbines
are great bird whackers and kill more birds per year than
lit up skyscrappers in Toronto.
I don't know about Toronto but here are the stats for Denmark, which gets 25% of its electricity from wind power. They have about 30,000 annual bird deaths from wind turbines, 1 million from cars, 2 million from window collisions, and 5 million from cats.
the fabrication of solar
cells required extremely toxic chemicals such as Selinium
and also required large tracts of land
Yes, some types of solar cells use toxic chemicals, but so do lots of other industries. As long as they get recycled there's no huge problem with this. But other solar cell types only use silicon, which is 100% harmless. Land requirements are large compared to nuclear, but tiny compared to bioenergy. Solar cells on just a few percent of the world's deserts could supply all the energy we need, but they could also be distributed over other "dead" surfaces like rooftops, parking lots, roadsides, etc.
From these people I met, if they were representative, I would
be surprised that they could calculate any energy efficiencies.
I'm an energy system researcher with no connection to Greenpeace, but the research reports they produce are very good. Did you hear about the recent IPCC "scandal" where some highlighted scenarios originated from a Greenpeace study? That wasn't because the IPCC is partisan, but that at least some parts of Greenpeace do impressive work that gets cited in academic studies.
Like I said, they were not the brightest lot on the block. LoL
... naw, too easy.
Project Iceworm - America's secret cold war plan to build a network of underground missile bases under the Greenland ice cap
Now I know.
The whole point of hybrids is this (at least plug-in hybrids, which is the interesting kind):
For everyday commuting, the cars can run on electricity. This not only means no local air pollution in cities, but potentially much less CO2 emissions as well (because an electric motor is about four times more efficient than a typical gasoline engine). Total system emissions are about on par with ordinary gas cars even if electricity comes from crummy old coal plants, and will improve as we introduce more renewables in the electricity system. In countries with a lot of hydro, nuclear and renewables, this is a huge improvement over gas cars, even today.
Another really interesting aspect of plug-in hybrids is that their battery capacity can (in the future) be used as a distributed electricity reserve (or backup), so that we can integrate a lot more intermittent renewables (i.e solar and wind) into our electricity system than otherwise possible. This can work because very few cars run more than two hours per day, and idle the rest of the time. Of course, this requires a smart grid and flexible electricity prices for consumers, but it can be done. In effect, hybrids can help us closer to a CO2-free electricity system.
Its the future potential of hybrids which is fascinating - the hybrids of today are for enthusiasts. But we should be grateful to these early adopters for building the transport technology of the future.
Since their webpage is slashdotted, here is the official press release from the Church of Kopimism:
The Church of Kopimism is recognized by the state of Sweden
Just before Christmas, the Swedish governmental agency Kammarkollegiet registered the Church of Kopimism as a religious organisation. This means that Sweden is the first country to recognize kopimism as a religion.
The Church of Kopimism have tried to become registered as a religious organisation by Kammarkollegiet for more than a year.
- Since Kammarkollegiet has been strict with formalities, we had to apply three times, a happy Gustav Nipe - board chairman for the organisation - says. He continues, I think it might have something to do with the governmental organisations abiding by a very copyright friendly attitude, with a twisted view on copying.
For the Church of Kopimism, information is holy and copying is a sacrament. Information holds a value, in itself and in what it contains, and the value multiplies through copying. Therefore, copying is central for the organisation and its members.
Being recognized by the state of Sweden is a large step for all of kopimi. Hopefully, this is one step towards the day when we can live out our faith without fear of persecution, says Isak Gerson, spiritual leader of the Church of Kopimism.
The Church of Kopimism is a religious organisation with roots from 2010. The organisation formalizes a community that's been well spread for a long time already. The community of kopimi requires no formal membership. You just have to feel a calling to worship what is the holiest of the holiest, information and copy. To do this, we organize kopyactings - religious services - where the kopimists share information with eachother through copying and remix.
Copy and seed.
1) Event happens
2) Reporter writes article.
3) Subject editor edits article for content correctness.
4) Copy editor edits article for grammer and style, also writes headline.
5) Article is published online and in print.
Note that nobody checks the spelling.
Light is faster than neutrinos, in Soviet Russia!
...
Wow. This so doesn't work, in so many ways
a bit of Apple news from late last week that got overshadowed by the headlines about Steve Jobs
1. Discover an embarrassing vulnerability in your OS.
...
2. Relapse into fatal cancer and resign as CEO, drowning your goof in media noise.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!
You have to admire the guy's genius, dedication, and unmatched PR skills
You're absolutely right. I simply cannot rationalize how you can love science and yet be a fan of Fox News - the network that is deliberately fanning the flames of science hatred across the country.
I remember I reacted the same way when Disney took over Pixar, but in retrospect that didn't end up too horribly (although the latest Cars sequel is Disney-scary ...). Anyway, the "don't break it"-quote shows that EA execs are aware of the risks, so maybe there's some small hope they won't completely fuck up PopCap?
Wow, that should buy them about one-fifth of a reactor!
Slow news day huh?
for example: do you think bin laden would be alive or dead right now if the intel that led to him were more widely available?
You're right, he'd probably be alive now. But if widely available intel had forced the government to be more open when we started our underhanded weaponizing and financing of his organization in the first place, he'd probably have been relatively harmless in the grand scheme of things.
I know which of these alternative realities I would choose to live in ...
Every day I'm happier I have an ipod touch to do i-stuff with, and a plain ole VM pay as you go phone for that old fashioned "telephone call" functionality. The coolest part is when I drain the ipod battery from screwing around with music / videos / games, I can still do the important stuff like make and receive phone calls. I know people whom absolutely squeal when angry birds fly off with their battery charge and then they can't talk on the phone or text for a couple hours. Lately I've been facetiming thru open wifis instead of making phone calls on my old fashioned cellphone, if everyone I knew did facetime, I'd probably ditch the phone entirely.
I considered modding you +1 funny for making such a good argument and then completely contradicting yourself with your last words, but then I decided to be nice about it and just mock you publicly instead.
Looks to me like they were right, the damage was to stuff outside the reactor which was mostly superficial.
From Wikipedia:
"An explosion was heard after 06:14 JST on 15 March in unit 2, possibly damaging the pressure-suppression system, which is at the bottom part of the containment vessel."
"On 30 March, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (JNISA) reiterated concerns about a possible unit 2 breach at either the suppression pool, or the reactor vessel."
"On 27 March, TEPCO reported measurements of very high radiation levels of over 1000 mSv/h in the basement of the unit 2 turbine building"
And the money quote: (source)
"On April 11, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency officially raised the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi to Level 7 on the INES scale. This makes Fukushima the second Level 7 "major accident" in the history of the nuclear industry."
Graphics mean NOTHING. Not even worthy of mention. Not even an "it doesn't even look good", like that's the last saving grace of a crap game.
I strongly disagree. Top-rate graphics is a large component of the strange magic that lifts a game from 'very good' to 'absolutely f*cking brilliant'. BUT the graphics don't have to be pretty in the conventional sense, as long as they have *charm*.
Minecraft graphics has charm. World of Goo graphics has charm. Plants vs Zombies graphics has charm.
The have so much charm they become stunningly beautiful, just like a certain girl I know.
"Remember BrainGate?"
Are the climate skeptics now denying that they have brains?
In a day to day sense, nuclear power is almost as cheap and FAR cleaner than oil.
In a day to day sense, a Porsche 997 is almost as cheap as our Ford Focus. Strangely, my wife won't let me buy one. Women can be so unreasonable.