Look at the source for http://www.purple.com/purple.html. Notice the line: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="86400; URL=index2.html"> In other words, if you leave the purple page open for 24 hours, you get a new page with actual content (sort of)! http://www.purple.com/index2.html
Oops, you're right--the luminous efficiency of a normal 100W bulb is 2.6%, but that doesn't mean that only 2.6% of the energy is converted to visible light. To compare apples to apples I'd have to apply the luminosity function to sunlight, which I think results in a luminous efficiency of about 15%.
You can't compare brightness (of visible light) alone; you have to consider the spectrum of each light source too. Around 44% of solar radiation (that reaches the surface of the Earth) is visible light, while only 2% of the energy used to power an incandescent bulb is converted to visible light.
In other words, you're trying to compare 2W of visible light from a 100W bulb with either 44W (out of 100W) or 440W (out of 1000W) of visible light from the sun.
Right, because charging more for the initial box won't affect sales and subscriptions. Why not take it a few steps further, and charge $400 for the initial box but include two years of play time "free"?
Actually, the trend is to move in the opposite direction: make the base game play cheap or free (a loss leader) but provide optional in-game enhancements for money. See Maple Story with its 67 million subscribers for an example of how it can work.
The world is scriptable by the end user. That sets it apart from other graphical MMORPGs, and should make it of interest to a portion of the Slashdot community, particularly those that may have enjoyed the scripting aspect of text-based MUDs. https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Portal
If you listen to the DVD commentary for Futurama (I forget which episode), the creators note that they intentionally gave computers in the show a Mac-like interface in the hopes of getting free stuff from Apple. (They tell Steve Jobs: "It's not too late!") Of course the Mac serving as a judge in "Fear of a Bot Planet" did freeze at one point, so they haven't portrayed Macs in a completely positive light. Still, if I had to guess, I'd say Mac OS (or OS X) is probably Bender's favorite OS.
[The crew is sitting around a campfire and Bender is at the end of telling his scary story.] Bender:...and even though the computer was off and unplugged, an image stayed on the screen... it was... THE WINDOWS LOGO! Fry: Pssh! That's not scary. Bender: It is if you're a laser printer.
The Windows logo also chases Bender briefly in "The Honking".
The first step toward wiki-based laws has already been taken in New Zealand, allowing people to collectively write a hypothetical version of a law that will be used as input for the actual law-making process.
A Connecticut law unfairly stigmatizes those who are forced to register as dangerous sex offenders without being allowed to show that they are not a threat to the community, a federal court here ruled today.
While United States District Court Judge Robert N. Chatigny upheld the right to due process for sex offenders who are at risk for sex offender registration, he failed to rule the entire registration act unconstitutional. The ACLU had challenged the Act because it imposes an additional punishment that was not in place at the time of conviction.
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico today filed a legal challenge to stop the May 1st implementation of a new sex offender registry ordinance, saying the misguided law has encourage vigilantism and will not make anyone safer.
"Notification laws create an illusion of safety, and this law is no exception," said Peter Simonson, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico.
"Studies have found no evidence to suggest that community notification protects children from sex offenses or prevents recidivism. In fact, community notification may do more harm than good by encouraging vigilantism, driving former sex offenders underground and disrupting stable families," he added.
In both cases they list the capacity in watt-hours, though. According to the article, 8 grams of "equivalent lithium content" translates to about 100 W h, and both of the Li-ion batteries you mention have a capacity under 100 W h.
Not that that makes it much easier to enforce these new rules, but at least the information is available.
Do you really think there will be much code that is worthy of The Daily WTF? NASA and its contractors go to great lengths to try to produce properly engineered code. Sure, it's still not perfect, but I seriously doubt we'll see the kind of "what were they thinking?!" things that are typically featured on The Daily WTF.
If the vulnerability was introduced through a compromised account, is there any assurance that that account is no longer compromised? I see no mention of that.
Speaking of which, anyone that enjoyed the music from Chrono Trigger should download the Chrono Symphonic remixes (including To Far Away Times): http://vizzed.com/chrono/remixes.htm
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Look at the source for http://www.purple.com/purple.html.
Notice the line: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="86400; URL=index2.html">
In other words, if you leave the purple page open for 24 hours, you get a new page with actual content (sort of)!
http://www.purple.com/index2.html
Oops, you're right--the luminous efficiency of a normal 100W bulb is 2.6%, but that doesn't mean that only 2.6% of the energy is converted to visible light. To compare apples to apples I'd have to apply the luminosity function to sunlight, which I think results in a luminous efficiency of about 15%.
You can't compare brightness (of visible light) alone; you have to consider the spectrum of each light source too. Around 44% of solar radiation (that reaches the surface of the Earth) is visible light, while only 2% of the energy used to power an incandescent bulb is converted to visible light.
In other words, you're trying to compare 2W of visible light from a 100W bulb with either 44W (out of 100W) or 440W (out of 1000W) of visible light from the sun.
Right, because charging more for the initial box won't affect sales and subscriptions.
Why not take it a few steps further, and charge $400 for the initial box but include two years of play time "free"?
Actually, the trend is to move in the opposite direction: make the base game play cheap or free (a loss leader) but provide optional in-game enhancements for money. See Maple Story with its 67 million subscribers for an example of how it can work.
It seems to me the whole point of the "you must be new here" meme is the irony of saying that to someone with a low(er)? UID.
Travelling Salesman?
Using GPS devices for games would be pretty cool--not necessarily for SimCity but other games like "Pac Manhattan".
Maybe 0.5% will work if you can find a way to drop the inflation rate to zero (and keep it there).
Good luck with that.
The world is scriptable by the end user. That sets it apart from other graphical MMORPGs, and should make it of interest to a portion of the Slashdot community, particularly those that may have enjoyed the scripting aspect of text-based MUDs.
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Portal
It is pretty safe to say that Windows is not Bender's favorite OS though:
The Windows logo also chases Bender briefly in "The Honking".
The first step toward wiki-based laws has already been taken in New Zealand, allowing people to collectively write a hypothetical version of a law that will be used as input for the actual law-making process.
http://www.aclu.org/crimjustice/sentencing/10286prs20010402.html http://www.aclu.org/crimjustice/gen/10212prs20030424.html
In both cases they list the capacity in watt-hours, though. According to the article, 8 grams of "equivalent lithium content" translates to about 100 W h, and both of the Li-ion batteries you mention have a capacity under 100 W h.
Not that that makes it much easier to enforce these new rules, but at least the information is available.
You're a couple years too late.
The past tense and verbal noun forms are taken as well.
Perhaps you could be "Dividing By Zero"?
Do you really think there will be much code that is worthy of The Daily WTF? NASA and its contractors go to great lengths to try to produce properly engineered code. Sure, it's still not perfect, but I seriously doubt we'll see the kind of "what were they thinking?!" things that are typically featured on The Daily WTF.
If the vulnerability was introduced through a compromised account, is there any assurance that that account is no longer compromised? I see no mention of that.
Fortunately, the RIAA has nothing to do with the Czar Czar.
Hot! (NWS)
(Okay, it's a rather contrived example.)
It would be even better with help from a skywriter.
"A problem has been detected and Earth has been shut down to prevent damage to the universe."
It'll still buy us hundreds or thousands of years to get fusion working.
Speaking of which, anyone that enjoyed the music from Chrono Trigger should download the Chrono Symphonic remixes (including To Far Away Times):
http://vizzed.com/chrono/remixes.htm
Then, when everyone hates it, we'll bring back Windows Classic and make billions!
Radiohead is very well known. Three of their albums made it onto the Rolling Stone "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list in 2003, for what it's worth:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6598668 ("The Bends" at #110)
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6599036 ("OK Computer" at #162)
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6626855 ("Kid A" at #428)
I think that's what the people favoring a science debate really want to know: whether candidates will leave science to the scientists.
Last time I checked webcam support was implemented as a kernel module (gspca or spca5xx):
http://mxhaard.free.fr/index.html