Actually, it means even stupid Americans have better sense than to stick their fingers into a 240V outlet. We sure as hell wouldn't trust our made in china coffee makers to NOT burn our freakin houses down.
Don't even get me started on the 50Hz thing.
run on the electrical equivalent of three standard-size coffee-makers.
don't take it personally, this whole coffee maker analogy really pisses me off.
For some of them they have figured out that a $35 fax machine doesn't break as often as the $350 computer their friends are using. Also the employees tend to spend a lot less time faxing porn back and forth.
Is it just me, or has GMail strayed pretty far from its original purpose
Not if you consider GMail's original purpose was to extend Google's marketing reach. People used to ask - Hasn't Google strayed pretty far from being a search engine?
pretty much as always, you try and expand market share any way you can, even if you are the 181.4 kg gorilla in the room.
"...Taking complaints from your citizenry and turning them into political capital is simply too good an opportunity for these guys to pass up.'"
I'm as suspicious of politicians as the next guy BUT Taking complaints from your citizenry and acting on them is kind of in the job description.
Besides, it might of occurred to the company in question, that taking payola to take down what might be considered liabelous posts exposed them to even more liability since they could no longer claim a lack of resources was the primary holdup. Suddenly they became paid editors. Maybe they should just use a moderation system if they want to ignore it and a subscription model if they want more money.
SUSY appears to be an extraordinary gratuitous abbreviation for a perfectly understandable word - supersymmetry. Physics is hard enough to keep up with. I don't understand half of what Physicists say (except Susskind), no need to use secret code. I guess that's what I get for RTFA.
It distinctly avoids setting a precedent. Prosecuter's are not judges. If enough people leaving flaming bags of dog shit on his doorstep (or the Mayor's), he'll get the message and tow the line. If that doesn't happen, then I guess he will have made the right decision.
So they're going to take "waste products" (which they already have plenty of uses for) and substitute a more expensive fuel to replace gasoline. Which also happens to provide 10% less energy - (which means you'll have to burn that much more of it) While increasing the amount of emission by products.
projected the fuel costs of 16 hybrids over five years against their purchase price and financing fees.
Seriously, most people never figure it out. DON'T BORROW MONEY IF THE COST TO BORROW IT IS MORE THAN THE COST OF INFLATION.
Now go back and recalculate your payback period. (and if you start using NPV in your calculations, then I'll just tell you not to drive)
any "academic paper" that cites wikipedia as a reference somehow fails to inspire me. Not that I don't like Wiki... it just tends to suggest the paper lacks enough independent research.
p.s I may be biased since I believe the drake equation is total bullshit anyway.
Even at $130/1b. Your not going to make a lot of money getting uranium from the sea - not to mention the thermodynamic break-even point. It would be nice to have a little energy left over to use on something else besides a perpetual motion machine. Almost any alternative energy source - including oil shale will be fine for another 200 years. And if we haven't figured out fusion by then, it's going to get very very cold...
First, there's not enough water on Earth. So if it did occur, where did the other water go?
atmospheric escape? metal oxidation? ejection? Recent science says the moon's crust contains lots of water.
we don't see in the geological record evidence for a flood all at the same point in history
That's like saying WWII was not a global war because we saw no evidence of it in Ireland and Portugal.
we don't see any global die off that is closely connected to flood deposits
Um, the article is about the largest amount of evidence ever found!
So the upshot? I think there is plenty of validity to your facts. Enough to make me question mine, but your arguments require just as much faith as I already have. Don't be so hard on religion, You obviously believe in lot's of things you don't understand too.
a proof of concept liquid mirror just five centimeters across with 91 actuators
I can guarantee you can find a 5cm glass mirror superior in cost, quality and usability than this thing. Adaptive optics have come a long way toward eliminating the need for a theoretically perfect parabola. If your only practical outcome is a 100m zenith scope on mars - we already know how to do that cheap enough. So if you find anything in the article(s) that show a real advantage, clue me in. I do see they have come up with new ferromagnetic carriers that are kind of cool. Can anyone explain what percent improvement they get with this design vs. segmented mirrors or even radios and is it enough to offset the response times?
... Show us a plan for how that will ultimately generate revenue for Oracle?...a real plan. Ideally backed up with some research marketing numbers, etc.
Sheesh! Ok here's my plan for ORACLE.
Dick around for a couple more years, let *any* startup company take your free software and offer their own solutions, since your company not only can't, but is not even sure it should.
Watch your market share for these assets dry up.
have a management meeting and convince each other it was a bad idea to begin with.
wait for it occur to someone to *SUE* the startup
Oh I almost forgot...PROFIT
P.S. Let me know if you have any term papers due this semester that you want me to work on for free (since its for my own good).
P.P.S sorry Kramer, ORACLE is not going to 30 this quarter.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't even get me started on the 50Hz thing.
don't take it personally, this whole coffee maker analogy really pisses me off.
Stick to cars people,CARS! Slashdot=CARS sheesh!
replicating rapid-prototyper (self replicating machine) - yeah, definitely needs a better name.
They are becoming ultimately predictable, and it seems to me that ultimately free people get the government they deserve.
For some of them they have figured out that a $35 fax machine doesn't break as often as the $350 computer their friends are using. Also the employees tend to spend a lot less time faxing porn back and forth.
Not if you consider GMail's original purpose was to extend Google's marketing reach. People used to ask - Hasn't Google strayed pretty far from being a search engine?
pretty much as always, you try and expand market share any way you can, even if you are the 181.4 kg gorilla in the room.
Don't give slashdot any ideas. I post stupid shit to the forums all the time.
I'm as suspicious of politicians as the next guy BUT Taking complaints from your citizenry and acting on them is kind of in the job description.
Besides, it might of occurred to the company in question, that taking payola to take down what might be considered liabelous posts exposed them to even more liability since they could no longer claim a lack of resources was the primary holdup. Suddenly they became paid editors. Maybe they should just use a moderation system if they want to ignore it and a subscription model if they want more money.
SUSY appears to be an extraordinary gratuitous abbreviation for a perfectly understandable word - supersymmetry. Physics is hard enough to keep up with. I don't understand half of what Physicists say (except Susskind), no need to use secret code. I guess that's what I get for RTFA.
It distinctly avoids setting a precedent. Prosecuter's are not judges. If enough people leaving flaming bags of dog shit on his doorstep (or the Mayor's), he'll get the message and tow the line. If that doesn't happen, then I guess he will have made the right decision.
Yeah, I bet they'll have plenty of patents on it.
Seriously, most people never figure it out. DON'T BORROW MONEY IF THE COST TO BORROW IT IS MORE THAN THE COST OF INFLATION. Now go back and recalculate your payback period. (and if you start using NPV in your calculations, then I'll just tell you not to drive)
I kinda get the point, then again SSD sure as hell replaced the HDD in my EEE PC. I wish he had told me a year ago!
p.s I may be biased since I believe the drake equation is total bullshit anyway.
Even at $130/1b. Your not going to make a lot of money getting uranium from the sea - not to mention the thermodynamic break-even point. It would be nice to have a little energy left over to use on something else besides a perpetual motion machine. Almost any alternative energy source - including oil shale will be fine for another 200 years. And if we haven't figured out fusion by then, it's going to get very very cold...
-grigor
You don't happen to both run your routers on timer switches? Solar cells?
Power company doing rolling blackouts? - nevermind, just checking.
No, but these butt-ugly houses are. Sure, plenty of college kids would live in them, but who the hell would buy something that looks like that?
atmospheric escape? metal oxidation? ejection? Recent science says the moon's crust contains lots of water.
That's like saying WWII was not a global war because we saw no evidence of it in Ireland and Portugal.
Um, the article is about the largest amount of evidence ever found!
So the upshot? I think there is plenty of validity to your facts. Enough to make me question mine, but your arguments require just as much faith as I already have. Don't be so hard on religion, You obviously believe in lot's of things you don't understand too.
Like, WTF are we going to do with all this lead and selenium waste?
Any politician named Senator Harry Reid (D)NV making such proclamations about his own pork must be par for the course.
There, fixed that for ya.
p.s. Storing nuclear waste is now considered innovative. You know, like BP storing their excess production capacity in the Gulf.
I can guarantee you can find a 5cm glass mirror superior in cost, quality and usability than this thing. Adaptive optics have come a long way toward eliminating the need for a theoretically perfect parabola. If your only practical outcome is a 100m zenith scope on mars - we already know how to do that cheap enough. So if you find anything in the article(s) that show a real advantage, clue me in. I do see they have come up with new ferromagnetic carriers that are kind of cool. Can anyone explain what percent improvement they get with this design vs. segmented mirrors or even radios and is it enough to offset the response times?
Curiously, the decision was sent rather obscurely... OFFICIAL NOTICE -AYBABTU.
Sheesh! Ok here's my plan for ORACLE.
Dick around for a couple more years, let *any* startup company take your free software and offer their own solutions, since your company not only can't, but is not even sure it should.
Watch your market share for these assets dry up.
have a management meeting and convince each other it was a bad idea to begin with.
wait for it occur to someone to *SUE* the startup
Oh I almost forgot...PROFIT
P.S. Let me know if you have any term papers due this semester that you want me to work on for free (since its for my own good).
P.P.S sorry Kramer, ORACLE is not going to 30 this quarter.
yes.
uh huh, yup.
Dammit, now i'm confused. Would someone please backport this question to the parent?
FTA
Seriously, how many fucktards does this employ at both ends of this bureaucratic circle jerk? my brain hurts.