Right, because a burning gas which floats quickly upward is SO much more dangerous than a burning liquid which pools underfoot. The lesson from the Hindenburg should have been that "most passengers survived, let's figure out how to up the number." Instead they went to gasoline powered bits of linen and balsa wood in a quest for safety. Twits!
The receipt check as you leave isn't even because they think the customers are thieves. They treat you like a criminal because they believe their own employees are thieves.
More like because they know their own employees are thieves. They just don't know which ones. Of course, they were honest when hired, but employees won't always stay honest if employers get them sufficiently PO'd .
Those of us who speak English long ago abandoned any expectation of even hearing it used in the United States. It's been all downhill since Daniel Webster. Now, may I ask, when did "white" become a proper noun?
Ok, I can reason by analogy too, if you want.
When you want to design an build a house, you don't start out by designing and building a car to park in the garage.
If you actually wanted to make a touch-screen interface for its own sake, you would want it somewhere you could show it off (like your pocket), not hidden in your furnace room.
Put the MedicAlert numbers of all occupants in the QR code at the door. Earthquake responders will know if you need anything special (assuming their comms work). No additional privacy implications beyond what you already have with MA. How tough is that?
All they are really proving is that they can run a datacenter with a power requirement of NKW by building a solar array that supplies NKW x 24 hours worth of power every day in the few hours each day sunlight is available each day.
In nerd-speak, we'd say "a supply of N kW (mean)". ?
Seriously though, think what a six-sigma design requirement does to the needed margins. The only realistic localized solution is a design requirement that it be a net provider to the grid every day, even it the worst weather during the design life. Alternatively, use spacial diversity in the implementation of their cloud: it's never bad weather everywhere simultaneously.
Your question "What is the proper scale for such an item? Half the daily power consumption?" actually has more to do with local utility peak rates than anything else. Like many jurisdictions, California hugely subsidizes peak hour providers. Just an efficient grid-connected energy storage system is all you need to exploiting this. Buy low at night, sell high in the day. Repeat. $$Profit$$
There's no reason to put in yet another display and input device. Does your router need one? Just use the ones that you already have in abundance in your phones, tablets, and laptops. Make the protobox headless with networking, then get on with what you really want to play with, instead of yet another disposable MMI.
1. Start up a cloud VM.
2. Feed Streetview images into a 123dcatch instance on it.
3. Run some surface fractal texturing code to apply a "creative" element while cleaning up the surface dirt, pixellation, etc. and reducing file size.
5. Get the mechanical turk to describe the objects for a few cents each.
6. Auction commercial-use licenses to Garmin, TomTom, etc.
7. Profit $$$
Emergency response time would increase SIGNIFICANTLY. People would die.
Consider the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Storm_of_1998, when several cities lost power, in some areas for weeks. Thirty five people died. Most of these were due to improper use of generators, fires, and carbon monoxide poisoning. Those who had the sense to dress warmly and stay indoors didn't have much to worry about. The hard part was for infants and for livestock farms (especially dairy farms) that weren't equipped to run off-grid that long.
People learned many lessons, such as the need for secured backup generators at cell sites, and that you can even get tired of bbq after a while.
I would love to transition to LEDs, but it has to make financial sense first. CFLs are just as energy efficient, and much cheaper.
Ya gotta consider what it costs to physically change the bulb. First of all, you need to hire that Harvard MBA to hold it while the world revolves around him.
Well, there goes any/. cred I had as a mindreader. Turns out LWD is a tyop of LED. But the point still holds. The "white" colour is a purely arbitrary mix of three monochromatic LED luminances, so just pick the one that mixes the way you like. Market forces will drive the availability of a few options.
Eventually someone will figure a way to make them colour programmable at next to no cost.
So: hardhacks anyone? Can we modulate these suckers for data transmission?
I call bullshit. The AC just hasn't bothered to shop for the right phosphor mix to please his eye. The better brands have several options. IIRC, Phillips marks a blackbody-equivalent colour temperature on the packages of their CFLs. Others use terms like "warm white", "cool white", etc to keep you guessing.
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Kewl. By the way, nice username!
Right, because a burning gas which floats quickly upward is SO much more dangerous than a burning liquid which pools underfoot. The lesson from the Hindenburg should have been that "most passengers survived, let's figure out how to up the number." Instead they went to gasoline powered bits of linen and balsa wood in a quest for safety. Twits!
The receipt check as you leave isn't even because they think the customers are thieves. They treat you like a criminal because they believe their own employees are thieves.
More like because they know their own employees are thieves. They just don't know which ones. Of course, they were honest when hired, but employees won't always stay honest if employers get them sufficiently PO'd .
Actually, Quebec hasn't been connected to the French mainland for much longer than that. Better read up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
Those of us who speak English long ago abandoned any expectation of even hearing it used in the United States. It's been all downhill since Daniel Webster. Now, may I ask, when did "white" become a proper noun?
Ok, I can reason by analogy too, if you want. When you want to design an build a house, you don't start out by designing and building a car to park in the garage. If you actually wanted to make a touch-screen interface for its own sake, you would want it somewhere you could show it off (like your pocket), not hidden in your furnace room.
Put the MedicAlert numbers of all occupants in the QR code at the door. Earthquake responders will know if you need anything special (assuming their comms work). No additional privacy implications beyond what you already have with MA. How tough is that?
Nice, except of course for the one-at-a-time downloads from dropbox. Thank you.
All they are really proving is that they can run a datacenter with a power requirement of NKW by building a solar array that supplies NKW x 24 hours worth of power every day in the few hours each day sunlight is available each day.
In nerd-speak, we'd say "a supply of N kW (mean)".
? Seriously though, think what a six-sigma design requirement does to the needed margins. The only realistic localized solution is a design requirement that it be a net provider to the grid every day, even it the worst weather during the design life. Alternatively, use spacial diversity in the implementation of their cloud: it's never bad weather everywhere simultaneously. Your question "What is the proper scale for such an item? Half the daily power consumption?" actually has more to do with local utility peak rates than anything else. Like many jurisdictions, California hugely subsidizes peak hour providers. Just an efficient grid-connected energy storage system is all you need to exploiting this. Buy low at night, sell high in the day. Repeat. $$Profit$$
1. Spend $X buying bonds 2. Use a portion of the interest
Ah, yes. "Interest". Gotta love nostalgia.
Quick, Steve, the Nerd-mobile !!!
There's no reason to put in yet another display and input device. Does your router need one? Just use the ones that you already have in abundance in your phones, tablets, and laptops. Make the protobox headless with networking, then get on with what you really want to play with, instead of yet another disposable MMI.
Back in 2007 we breathlessly foresaw 4TB in 2011: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/07/10/17/2023258/beyond-nobel-hard-drives-get-smart
It's just Kryder's Law at work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryder's_Law
... is that yours aren't the only ears in the room. Even if you don't need 24/96....
Think of the puppies ! ! !
1. Start up a cloud VM.
2. Feed Streetview images into a 123dcatch instance on it.
3. Run some surface fractal texturing code to apply a "creative" element while cleaning up the surface dirt, pixellation, etc. and reducing file size.
5. Get the mechanical turk to describe the objects for a few cents each.
6. Auction commercial-use licenses to Garmin,
TomTom, etc.
7. Profit $$$
MYcleanPC is a spamware
Which differs from Windows how?
Are you referring to those that miss the start button, or those that use Windows?
Those who think it's the obvious way to do their daily shut down.
Nothing important to see.
Hey, this is /.
What's the point of having an Emperor if you can't all inspect and mock his diminutive dingus?
After all, the top nine states were all colder than the tenth. There's something to be said for a nice cozy classroom when it's freezing outside.
Emergency response time would increase SIGNIFICANTLY. People would die.
Consider the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Storm_of_1998, when several cities lost power, in some areas for weeks. Thirty five people died. Most of these were due to improper use of generators, fires, and carbon monoxide poisoning. Those who had the sense to dress warmly and stay indoors didn't have much to worry about. The hard part was for infants and for livestock farms (especially dairy farms) that weren't equipped to run off-grid that long. People learned many lessons, such as the need for secured backup generators at cell sites, and that you can even get tired of bbq after a while.
"Eleventy-one", dammit.
...models in magazines
Wait: what are these "magazines" of which you speak? Are the "models" radio controlled, or autonomous, like quadrotors?
I would love to transition to LEDs, but it has to make financial sense first. CFLs are just as energy efficient, and much cheaper.
Ya gotta consider what it costs to physically change the bulb. First of all, you need to hire that Harvard MBA to hold it while the world revolves around him.
Well, there goes any /. cred I had as a mindreader. Turns out LWD is a tyop of LED. But the point still holds. The "white" colour is a purely arbitrary mix of three monochromatic LED luminances, so just pick the one that mixes the way you like. Market forces will drive the availability of a few options.
Eventually someone will figure a way to make them colour programmable at next to no cost.
So: hardhacks anyone? Can we modulate these suckers for data transmission?
The white light is too harsh on the eyes.
I call bullshit. The AC just hasn't bothered to shop for the right phosphor mix to please his eye. The better brands have several options. IIRC, Phillips marks a blackbody-equivalent colour temperature on the packages of their CFLs. Others use terms like "warm white", "cool white", etc to keep you guessing.