Exactly, I noticed my battery was holding less charge after about 3 years and got a replacement. They're cheap and easy to find since Nokia shared battery models between many phones. An N900 uses a BL-5J.
Having a second battery also gives you a quick and easy way out of the "dead battery + won't boot so can't charge" problem on an N900.
It's not too unusual for very rich people to have killed others in a boating or driving accident. When you put a very large or very fast vehicle in the hands of what amounts to an average unskilled nitwit with an unusually fat wallet these things are bound to happen. Even if they are skilled there's greater risk with the greater kinetic energy wealth can make available to you - you're more likely to kill a whole family in another car if you crash into them hooning a Murcielago at 150mph vs. hooning an old Civic at 80mph.
I think the scenario in TFS is 50-100 years away, but I think mass adoption of electric cars is only 10-20 years away. Very soon they'll just make more sense for almost everyone.
Have you done any calculations on this? It seems wrong. Especially since my boss gets 90% of the energy his house needs with present-day solar panels on just a fraction of the roof.
Wikipedia says solar energy at the earth's surface is 3.5~7KWh/m^2 per day. An average American house uses just over 30KWh per day. Average house roof is 160m^2
Energy needed to drive 40 miles (average American daily driving) = 8kwh (using Chevy Volt)
So let's say your sci-fi roof has 90% efficient solar panels and you live in an area with low sunlight. (3.5*160)*0.9=622.22KWh per day. So unless your house is also an aluminum smelting plant you're very, very wrong.
Wait a minute, we should start to consider how much waste heat the earth's atmosphere can handle. I don't think you'd have to hook up many before you'd be on the path to boiling the planet.
We'd have a hard time destroying the earth past the point of all habitability. About the worst we could do is cause a nasty mass extinction and knock ourselves back to the stone age.
Even if there weren't mass extinctions to worry about, the odds are still stacked against intelligent life. Out of all the species on Earth there are only a handful with opposable thumbs and the intelligence to use tools alive today. There were even less than that at any time that were intelligent enough for language and to make tools from more than one material, much less any kind of advanced technology. Only one remains. So out of all the millions of species on the planet we have a few dozen that aren't "dumb as rocks" in the grander scheme of things and 1 that is "intelligent."
I think the chance of life is very high - I'd be really surprised if there isn't alien life in our solar system right now. But it seems that the chance of intelligent life is quite low.
If you RTFA, that's pretty much what he said to the woman he's going out with now, and she didn't leave him.
The coding and mathematical work he's done is only slightly interesting, what I'd really like to know is how he plans to keep a girlfriend while living out of a cubicle in a university office! That could be a real Einstein-level breakthrough!
Another candidate for my next phone, and one of the few where "privacy" was ever a consideration in its design. If I do buy one I'll have to make it hard to trace it back to me, I'm trying to stay off the Naughty List if I'm not already on it.
More cheap foreign labor, and pulling the floor out from under the market by making basic coding a common skill. Then it won't pay any better than flipping burgers.
I got it from another Slashdot user, name started with a "B," who said he saw it on Twitter. If you can find a source I'll be sure the change the attribution. And I didn't mean that it was created by the Anonymous collective if that's what you thought:-P
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It's the driving controls we're looking for. On Mars it's on the face, and on Mercury it's on the butt.
See: Homo Celestis from "Man after Man" by Dougal Dixon
Not to mention the universe's stupid speed limit!
Another member of the intelligence committee says she didn't know:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
But did Wyden actually know about PRISM?
http://www.popsci.com/technolo...
Fuck sakes - is CP now the backdoor to the whole US Constitution (not to mention the means by which anyone, anywhere, can be arrested for any reason?)
Cheat code in Democracy for Dictator Mode: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, Child Porn Exists
Still running my N900, no problems so far, keeping fingers crossed!
Exactly, I noticed my battery was holding less charge after about 3 years and got a replacement. They're cheap and easy to find since Nokia shared battery models between many phones. An N900 uses a BL-5J.
Having a second battery also gives you a quick and easy way out of the "dead battery + won't boot so can't charge" problem on an N900.
I had a Treo 650 before I upgraded to an N900...see if you can find one used, you're really missing out.
The 755p wasn't really the homo erectus of smartphones, that would be the Treo 180 (had one before the 650) or VisorPhone.
It's not too unusual for very rich people to have killed others in a boating or driving accident. When you put a very large or very fast vehicle in the hands of what amounts to an average unskilled nitwit with an unusually fat wallet these things are bound to happen. Even if they are skilled there's greater risk with the greater kinetic energy wealth can make available to you - you're more likely to kill a whole family in another car if you crash into them hooning a Murcielago at 150mph vs. hooning an old Civic at 80mph.
Exactly, give the BSD crowd a taste of their own medicine and solve the problem. Why haven't they done this yet?
I think the scenario in TFS is 50-100 years away, but I think mass adoption of electric cars is only 10-20 years away. Very soon they'll just make more sense for almost everyone.
D'oh finger slipped, it's 504KWh (point still stands).
Have you done any calculations on this? It seems wrong. Especially since my boss gets 90% of the energy his house needs with present-day solar panels on just a fraction of the roof.
Wikipedia says solar energy at the earth's surface is 3.5~7KWh/m^2 per day. An average American house uses just over 30KWh per day. Average house roof is 160m^2
Energy needed to drive 40 miles (average American daily driving) = 8kwh (using Chevy Volt)
So let's say your sci-fi roof has 90% efficient solar panels and you live in an area with low sunlight. (3.5*160)*0.9=622.22KWh per day. So unless your house is also an aluminum smelting plant you're very, very wrong.
Wait a minute, we should start to consider how much waste heat the earth's atmosphere can handle. I don't think you'd have to hook up many before you'd be on the path to boiling the planet.
We'd have a hard time destroying the earth past the point of all habitability. About the worst we could do is cause a nasty mass extinction and knock ourselves back to the stone age.
Even if there weren't mass extinctions to worry about, the odds are still stacked against intelligent life. Out of all the species on Earth there are only a handful with opposable thumbs and the intelligence to use tools alive today. There were even less than that at any time that were intelligent enough for language and to make tools from more than one material, much less any kind of advanced technology. Only one remains. So out of all the millions of species on the planet we have a few dozen that aren't "dumb as rocks" in the grander scheme of things and 1 that is "intelligent."
I think the chance of life is very high - I'd be really surprised if there isn't alien life in our solar system right now. But it seems that the chance of intelligent life is quite low.
If you RTFA, that's pretty much what he said to the woman he's going out with now, and she didn't leave him.
The coding and mathematical work he's done is only slightly interesting, what I'd really like to know is how he plans to keep a girlfriend while living out of a cubicle in a university office! That could be a real Einstein-level breakthrough!
Too bad this wasn't linked in TFS:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/recent-pause-in-warming
I was just gonna say, someone should bug her house and visibly tap her phone line, and maybe she'll make a quick about-face on that too.
Most of the servers that serve content over the Internet use hard drives ;-)
Then there are hard drive noises, tape noises, CD noises...
So I'd say moving data usually makes a noise. Not always, but usually.
Another candidate for my next phone, and one of the few where "privacy" was ever a consideration in its design. If I do buy one I'll have to make it hard to trace it back to me, I'm trying to stay off the Naughty List if I'm not already on it.
More cheap foreign labor, and pulling the floor out from under the market by making basic coding a common skill. Then it won't pay any better than flipping burgers.
I got it from another Slashdot user, name started with a "B," who said he saw it on Twitter. If you can find a source I'll be sure the change the attribution. And I didn't mean that it was created by the Anonymous collective if that's what you thought :-P