Please show me where in the article it says these panels will "produce enough power to pay for themselves before they need replacing." I think the likely hood of that scenario is much greater somewhere with twice as much sunlight.
I agree that this is part of a larger push to reduce the buildings power consumption, which is great for marketing to eco-consious tenants (pretty much everyone nowadays). However, I doubt the viability when something is this short on details. But hey, what are a couple thousand solar panels full of noxious chemicals right? Just a drop in the bucket compared to all the other crap we throw away... And it makes people feel good. Like recycling.
Seems like it would be a lot more efficient to put these on a high rise in Phoenix, with an average of 6.58 hours per day of sunlight. Then again, I'm not a marketing guy for Big WIlly, or "journalist" at inhabitat, so what do I know...
I agree. It is a downward spiral. And the next young hippy looking person that came in probably got even worse service than you. Karmic eh?
Now imagine a scenario where you are judged by something you can't change as easily as your hair style or clothing... As a consumer in that scenario, the only way to stop the cycle is to tip well no matter how bad the service. I think this might keep minorities from trying food outside their comfort zone as they often receive shitty service at new places.
I'd say they are above average, I was pretty terrible. Service industry people make a significant portion of their income via tips. Because of this, they are VERY attuned to which customers tip more or less than average. Generally people with coupons don't tip at the non-coupon rates, as they should (and is usually stated somewhere on the coupon).
If someone comes in and asks "hey, is this coupon cool?" before they sit down and the place has a decent operating procedure, they are pretty much guaranteed the server at the bottom of the totem pole. At the place I worked, minorities, old people, and under 21 year olds were all avoided like the plague by the experienced servers.
I have several friends in the service industry and I just want to share something with the/. crowd that probably takes advantage of groupon offers more than the average Joe.
When you present a groupon, the person serving you automatically thinks a few things about you:
1. You are cheap, and therefore will not tip as much.
2. You are going to receive a service or food at a discounted rate than normal, and therefore will not tip as much.
3. You are more likely to be active on yelp, and therefore will not tip as much. (There is a correlation between tipping and yelping according to my friends)
These friends, who have worked places that did groupon deals, absolutely detested them. In one case, literally to the point of quitting their job. I suspect that some do all kinds of unseemly things to the services and food they provide to the groupon masses.
In closing, I tried it once. Never again. Especially now that I know how much they are detested by the people actually serving you. The last thing you wanna do is fuck with your server. I know because I was one. And believe it or not, there is a disconnect between the owners that make the deals with groupon, and the server who actually brings your food to the table or helps strap on your seat belt.
The spent fuel rods are the most significant threat since they are not in a containment vessel. Your post mentions this but its so poorly worded I had a hard time understanding your point. Regardless, politics from the anti-nuclear crowd (oil companies and the like), the media/entertainment industry blowing radiation out of proportion, and a general misunderstanding of nuclear technology, have led the the public to be extremely NIMBY about nuclear processing facilities. If it wasn't for the politics that arose from those sentiments, there wouldn't be thousands of spent fuel rods laying around the plant. They would be under a mountain somewhere.
So here we are with a technology that is absolutely vital to the progress of humanity, yet the public, politicians, and our media shits all over it and consistently handicaps the technology through oppressive legalities. To me, the political wrangling is the single biggest contributing factor to the crisis occurring in Japan today. The second are the 1960s designs of nuclear plants that require active cooling. There are ways to build passively cooled nukes that will not go critical at power loss. However the facts of nuclear power are so colluded with hype and misinformation that it has so far been impossible to force companies to build that type of reactor, which is significantly more expensive to build.
Rice is in a lot of beers. Pretty much all Asian beers have rice in them. And none of them taste like Zima. Worldwide, more beer is sold with rice in it than without, which if we use popularity as a point of reference, debunks your argument that the definition of beer only has the few ingredients you listed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer#Ingredients
Zima is a type of malt beverage. It also tasted nothing like beer as it had powerful sweeteners. Zima was also never called beer by Coors. Rather, it was marketed as an option for people who don't like beer. Note the past tense, as Zima is no longer produced.
As I mentioned in my first post, the history of beer (including it's original ingredients) is rather boring and redundant to me. The advent of large breweries that take advantage of the economies of scale is far more impactful on my life than what some monks were doing in their basement 500 years ago. If people want to relive how things used to be that's fine with me, but I tire of getting laughed at and lectured at bars by beer snobs. Being told that what you are happily drinking is somehow substandard is annoying and abrasive.
Thank you for helping make my point. Coors light is most definitely a beer, and my beer of choice when i'm out drinking, especially if I'm gonna yorsh. Zima is nothing like it but that won't stop Joe Hipster from telling me they are the same and that coors light sucks.
Critiquing beer has become trendy and those doing the critiquing usually have no idea what they are talking about. "Beer advocates." lol. What constitutes a "good" beer is a matter of opinion, and I think Coors light is just fine for getting drunk.
Now if I wanted to weigh over 300 pounds, I'd start chugging pale ales, stouts, and barley wine. However I think there are better lifestyle options out there, and I don't want mine to be dictated by an elitist regional subculture centered around a fucking beverage.
When I'm starving, dog food tastes just fine. Usually when I need a drink its a similar feeling. Anything will do.
Joe Hipster tends not to understand this need (aka alcoholism) and has plenty of opinions about my lifestyle that he will air loudly to whoever will listen. Sometimes he does so fearlessly, as Joe Hipster doesn't have to fear a punch in the mouth these days, and rarely has money to buy a round to recompense. After all, he just spent $9 on a cup of 14% barley wine which he will undoubtedly proclaim as the greatest beverage to ever have been brewed. Joe Hipster's escape is a world of critique, banter, and elitism.
I don't see Joe Hipster's world as an ends in itself; it is tiring and cyclical. I prefer a darker place with hiccups and dancing elephants. And boobs. Boobs are cool.
I bet I'll get modded troll for this but I gotta say it.
Whats with all the beer snobs nowadays? 10 years ago, I could enjoy a cold Coors Light without having to worry about Joe Hipster giving me crap for drinking it. When I drink a beer, it doesn't have to be an excursion in the history of beer making and I don't need to have the perfect glass for a pilsner. To me, drinking beer is about getting shit faced, usually with friends. I don't give a crap if it tastes less hoppy or has carmel undertones. I usually just want a f*ckin beer, and then I want another one.
Sure, Guinness tastes pretty good, but for me its too heavy. After 5 or 6 I'm ready for a nap. And it has the same alcohol percentage as Coors Light, so it doesn't get you any drunker. It just tastes better (arguably), fills you up more, and costs twice as much. To me the marginal utility I receive from a cheap domestic ($0.50 beer that I can drink 12 of and get shitfaced) is far superior to any import or micro brew if I'm drinking to get drunk. And most of the time, that is exactly why I'm drinking.
I think the tsunami in Indonesia was the cash cow that really showed how much money could be made. And its not through "illegal" means but rather by guys with lots of money who gave largish loans to local authorities in the disaster zones. Essentially they float short term million dollarish loans to local agencies (who are corrupt) within a week or so of the disaster and issue repayment contracts that use the donations (which finally start pouring in a month later), to pay back the loans. They normally get paid back ten fold within a few months. I know because my Grandfather was sadly involved in brokering some of those short term loans back in 2004 in Thailand.
It sickened me then and I decided I was never going to give my credit card to anyone asking for donations. Over 95% of the money goes to massive profits for rich people who floated the short term loans.
It'd be cool if google took users' blacklisting habit as feedback into their algorithm to determine page rank. I'd love to see sites like experts exchange and link farmers get dropped off the first page of results.
But is it a bad thing for innovation? That is the question that slashdotters care most about.
I would argue that yes it is bad for innovation (for a variety of reasons that are scattered throughout this forum), and good for lawyers like yourself who now have one more thing to argue over while charging innovators even more fees and further confuscating the issue of patent reform. After all, true patent reform would mean an end to wealthy IP attorneys who contribute nothing to society. And we can't have that.
Buy a new one every 3 years for $100 and put all your crap on it. br.
Even better, buy two and keep one in a storage bin or at a relatives in case of a fire or something.
Curiously enough and for no good reason, the urinary bladder influences blood pressure. Pressure is lowest when the bladder is empty. As the bladder gradually fills, blood pressure rises. Thus a pressure of 130/80 on an empty bladder may reach 160/90 when the bladder is full enough to send messages of “Please empty.” During urination, the blood pressure then precipitously drops back to 130/80. People whose bladders are never quite empty may carry a pressure which is slightly higher. After treatment and with the resumption o£ complete bladder emptying the pressure falls to normal levels."
My friend worked for them circa 2001-2003. People thought they were going to blow up. Problem is, the kids want shoes that they have heard of. Addidas, Vans, Nike. Screw the environment if you are going to look like a dork.
So if I picked Capcom vs Marvell 3 and Mortal Kombat you would be happy? Hopefully you like side scrolling fighting games eh? Or are RPGs the only type of games that are worthy of your agreement without lambasting the random titles that I picked out of the blue?
Umm, video games are better now than ever. You think Area 51 is better than Call of Duty: Black Ops???
There are thousands of titles on dozens of platforms. Revenue from video game sales (console, PC, handhelds etc...) is much higher now than it ever was in Arcade times. The advent of online multiplayer games has revolutionized the industry nearly as much as console gaming. Because there is so much money and demand involved, more games are being developed now than ever. Hell I think we are pushing 50 million games sold per year just in consoles nowadays. I don't see how a few thousand arcades across the country can have nearly as much of an innovative force as billions upon billions of dollars.
Arcade are quaint, and were a necessity to the industry's early days. They also used to be a social mecca for the nerdy types, hence the nostalgia. Now they will go the way of the dodo bird, as they should. Just let go man. Just. Let. Go.
Slashdot Mirror
And yet they still do a great job pointing out how the majority of recycling programs don't make any sense.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1444391672891013193#
Please show me where in the article it says these panels will "produce enough power to pay for themselves before they need replacing." I think the likely hood of that scenario is much greater somewhere with twice as much sunlight.
I agree that this is part of a larger push to reduce the buildings power consumption, which is great for marketing to eco-consious tenants (pretty much everyone nowadays). However, I doubt the viability when something is this short on details. But hey, what are a couple thousand solar panels full of noxious chemicals right? Just a drop in the bucket compared to all the other crap we throw away... And it makes people feel good. Like recycling.
According to this solar power website, Chicago only gets an average of 3.14 hours of sunlight per day:
http://www.gosolarcompany.com/pv-sizing-sun-hours.html
Seems like it would be a lot more efficient to put these on a high rise in Phoenix, with an average of 6.58 hours per day of sunlight. Then again, I'm not a marketing guy for Big WIlly, or "journalist" at inhabitat, so what do I know...
I agree. It is a downward spiral. And the next young hippy looking person that came in probably got even worse service than you. Karmic eh?
Now imagine a scenario where you are judged by something you can't change as easily as your hair style or clothing... As a consumer in that scenario, the only way to stop the cycle is to tip well no matter how bad the service. I think this might keep minorities from trying food outside their comfort zone as they often receive shitty service at new places.
I'd say they are above average, I was pretty terrible. Service industry people make a significant portion of their income via tips. Because of this, they are VERY attuned to which customers tip more or less than average. Generally people with coupons don't tip at the non-coupon rates, as they should (and is usually stated somewhere on the coupon).
If someone comes in and asks "hey, is this coupon cool?" before they sit down and the place has a decent operating procedure, they are pretty much guaranteed the server at the bottom of the totem pole. At the place I worked, minorities, old people, and under 21 year olds were all avoided like the plague by the experienced servers.
I have several friends in the service industry and I just want to share something with the /. crowd that probably takes advantage of groupon offers more than the average Joe.
When you present a groupon, the person serving you automatically thinks a few things about you:
1. You are cheap, and therefore will not tip as much.
2. You are going to receive a service or food at a discounted rate than normal, and therefore will not tip as much.
3. You are more likely to be active on yelp, and therefore will not tip as much. (There is a correlation between tipping and yelping according to my friends)
These friends, who have worked places that did groupon deals, absolutely detested them. In one case, literally to the point of quitting their job. I suspect that some do all kinds of unseemly things to the services and food they provide to the groupon masses.
In closing, I tried it once. Never again. Especially now that I know how much they are detested by the people actually serving you. The last thing you wanna do is fuck with your server. I know because I was one. And believe it or not, there is a disconnect between the owners that make the deals with groupon, and the server who actually brings your food to the table or helps strap on your seat belt.
The spent fuel rods are the most significant threat since they are not in a containment vessel. Your post mentions this but its so poorly worded I had a hard time understanding your point. Regardless, politics from the anti-nuclear crowd (oil companies and the like), the media/entertainment industry blowing radiation out of proportion, and a general misunderstanding of nuclear technology, have led the the public to be extremely NIMBY about nuclear processing facilities. If it wasn't for the politics that arose from those sentiments, there wouldn't be thousands of spent fuel rods laying around the plant. They would be under a mountain somewhere.
So here we are with a technology that is absolutely vital to the progress of humanity, yet the public, politicians, and our media shits all over it and consistently handicaps the technology through oppressive legalities. To me, the political wrangling is the single biggest contributing factor to the crisis occurring in Japan today. The second are the 1960s designs of nuclear plants that require active cooling. There are ways to build passively cooled nukes that will not go critical at power loss. However the facts of nuclear power are so colluded with hype and misinformation that it has so far been impossible to force companies to build that type of reactor, which is significantly more expensive to build.
Rice is in a lot of beers. Pretty much all Asian beers have rice in them. And none of them taste like Zima. Worldwide, more beer is sold with rice in it than without, which if we use popularity as a point of reference, debunks your argument that the definition of beer only has the few ingredients you listed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer#Ingredients
Zima is a type of malt beverage. It also tasted nothing like beer as it had powerful sweeteners. Zima was also never called beer by Coors. Rather, it was marketed as an option for people who don't like beer. Note the past tense, as Zima is no longer produced.
As I mentioned in my first post, the history of beer (including it's original ingredients) is rather boring and redundant to me. The advent of large breweries that take advantage of the economies of scale is far more impactful on my life than what some monks were doing in their basement 500 years ago. If people want to relive how things used to be that's fine with me, but I tire of getting laughed at and lectured at bars by beer snobs. Being told that what you are happily drinking is somehow substandard is annoying and abrasive.
Thank you for helping make my point. Coors light is most definitely a beer, and my beer of choice when i'm out drinking, especially if I'm gonna yorsh. Zima is nothing like it but that won't stop Joe Hipster from telling me they are the same and that coors light sucks.
Critiquing beer has become trendy and those doing the critiquing usually have no idea what they are talking about. "Beer advocates." lol. What constitutes a "good" beer is a matter of opinion, and I think Coors light is just fine for getting drunk.
Now if I wanted to weigh over 300 pounds, I'd start chugging pale ales, stouts, and barley wine. However I think there are better lifestyle options out there, and I don't want mine to be dictated by an elitist regional subculture centered around a fucking beverage.
When I'm starving, dog food tastes just fine. Usually when I need a drink its a similar feeling. Anything will do.
Joe Hipster tends not to understand this need (aka alcoholism) and has plenty of opinions about my lifestyle that he will air loudly to whoever will listen. Sometimes he does so fearlessly, as Joe Hipster doesn't have to fear a punch in the mouth these days, and rarely has money to buy a round to recompense. After all, he just spent $9 on a cup of 14% barley wine which he will undoubtedly proclaim as the greatest beverage to ever have been brewed. Joe Hipster's escape is a world of critique, banter, and elitism.
I don't see Joe Hipster's world as an ends in itself; it is tiring and cyclical. I prefer a darker place with hiccups and dancing elephants. And boobs. Boobs are cool.
I bet I'll get modded troll for this but I gotta say it.
Whats with all the beer snobs nowadays? 10 years ago, I could enjoy a cold Coors Light without having to worry about Joe Hipster giving me crap for drinking it. When I drink a beer, it doesn't have to be an excursion in the history of beer making and I don't need to have the perfect glass for a pilsner. To me, drinking beer is about getting shit faced, usually with friends. I don't give a crap if it tastes less hoppy or has carmel undertones. I usually just want a f*ckin beer, and then I want another one.
Sure, Guinness tastes pretty good, but for me its too heavy. After 5 or 6 I'm ready for a nap. And it has the same alcohol percentage as Coors Light, so it doesn't get you any drunker. It just tastes better (arguably), fills you up more, and costs twice as much. To me the marginal utility I receive from a cheap domestic ($0.50 beer that I can drink 12 of and get shitfaced) is far superior to any import or micro brew if I'm drinking to get drunk. And most of the time, that is exactly why I'm drinking.
I think the tsunami in Indonesia was the cash cow that really showed how much money could be made. And its not through "illegal" means but rather by guys with lots of money who gave largish loans to local authorities in the disaster zones. Essentially they float short term million dollarish loans to local agencies (who are corrupt) within a week or so of the disaster and issue repayment contracts that use the donations (which finally start pouring in a month later), to pay back the loans. They normally get paid back ten fold within a few months. I know because my Grandfather was sadly involved in brokering some of those short term loans back in 2004 in Thailand.
It sickened me then and I decided I was never going to give my credit card to anyone asking for donations. Over 95% of the money goes to massive profits for rich people who floated the short term loans.
It'd be cool if google took users' blacklisting habit as feedback into their algorithm to determine page rank. I'd love to see sites like experts exchange and link farmers get dropped off the first page of results.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/154416/pleasure-model
FTFA:
"the generated code is clean and concise -- far superior to the Save as HTML feature of Microsoft Word, for example."
Hahaha, not really saying a lot there buddy. My dog can write better HTML than M$ Word.
But is it a bad thing for innovation? That is the question that slashdotters care most about.
I would argue that yes it is bad for innovation (for a variety of reasons that are scattered throughout this forum), and good for lawyers like yourself who now have one more thing to argue over while charging innovators even more fees and further confuscating the issue of patent reform. After all, true patent reform would mean an end to wealthy IP attorneys who contribute nothing to society. And we can't have that.
I've found that people who are "PC fixers" and work for free, tend to screw up more than they fix.
Buy a new one every 3 years for $100 and put all your crap on it.
br. Even better, buy two and keep one in a storage bin or at a relatives in case of a fire or something.
If it does, then the answer is a resounding no. NO. NO!!! NoooOOOOOOooooOOOOOOooooOOOOOOooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paper catches fire around 230 C...
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/LewisChung.shtml
Your silicone should have melted well before the thing goes into combustion...
From http://www.fitnesstipsforlife.com/why-does-blood-pressure-change-throughout-the-day.html:
"The Effect of the Bladder on Blood Pressure
Curiously enough and for no good reason, the urinary bladder influences blood pressure. Pressure is lowest when the bladder is empty. As the bladder gradually fills, blood pressure rises. Thus a pressure of 130/80 on an empty bladder may reach 160/90 when the bladder is full enough to send messages of “Please empty.” During urination, the blood pressure then precipitously drops back to 130/80. People whose bladders are never quite empty may carry a pressure which is slightly higher. After treatment and with the resumption o£ complete bladder emptying the pressure falls to normal levels."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customatix
My friend worked for them circa 2001-2003. People thought they were going to blow up. Problem is, the kids want shoes that they have heard of. Addidas, Vans, Nike. Screw the environment if you are going to look like a dork.
So if I picked Capcom vs Marvell 3 and Mortal Kombat you would be happy? Hopefully you like side scrolling fighting games eh? Or are RPGs the only type of games that are worthy of your agreement without lambasting the random titles that I picked out of the blue?
Umm, video games are better now than ever. You think Area 51 is better than Call of Duty: Black Ops???
There are thousands of titles on dozens of platforms. Revenue from video game sales (console, PC, handhelds etc...) is much higher now than it ever was in Arcade times. The advent of online multiplayer games has revolutionized the industry nearly as much as console gaming. Because there is so much money and demand involved, more games are being developed now than ever. Hell I think we are pushing 50 million games sold per year just in consoles nowadays. I don't see how a few thousand arcades across the country can have nearly as much of an innovative force as billions upon billions of dollars.
Arcade are quaint, and were a necessity to the industry's early days. They also used to be a social mecca for the nerdy types, hence the nostalgia. Now they will go the way of the dodo bird, as they should. Just let go man. Just. Let. Go.