Any war with them with missiles would be concluded before you heard about it on Slashdot.
Isn't this the same attitude we had about Iraq and Afghanistan? The people of NK see us as the enemy, not as the liberator from their wicked dear leader. They'll continue to fight us until every person that can shoot a gun is killed.
Earth Hour isn't meant to actually save any energy, it's to build public awareness.
The problem with raising awareness like this is you create the mindset that to be "green" and save the earth you have to make sacrifices, such as no lights or HVAC. This simply isn't true, people could do wonders towards saving energy by installing more efficient lighting, insulating their attics and hot water pipes, and calking their windows. You don't have to remember to turn it on and off, it works when you sleep, and most important to most you don't have to change your current lifestyle or give something up.
This and according to wikipedia the cost of electricity in the US is 8-17 cents per kWh vs Germany's 31 cents per kWh. This means a much longer payback on investment in the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing
I think that hasn't been true in a long time. You might be able to get a similarly spec'ed laptop if you didn't care about form-factor or style that much, but then it's not really the same product. The new Mac Book Pro has taken things even further by giving the best resolution available for the money. Doing a quick price comparison can show you they aren't overpriced at all. The Dell Ultrabook XPS 13 currently retails for $999, while the Mac Book Air 13" retails at $1199. Of course the Mac is more, but it has a 1400x900 screen as opposed to 720p resolution, 1.8GHz CPU as opposed to 1.6GHz CPU and a height of 0.68 inches vs. 0.71 inches. The rest of the main features seem to be about the same, and while some may say, what's the difference between.68 and.71 inches, well, it's still 5%, which takes quite a lot of engineering to get rid of when you are looking at laptops of this size. Mac laptops are quite competitively priced, the only problem is they've decided not to make $400 laptops. Which is fine, because there is no money to be made in that market anyway.
They're overpriced regarding "How much money do I need to spend to get the task done" not "What gives me the most features for my dollar." A $400 laptop can type Word documents, create Excel spreadsheets, browse the internet, send email, haul it around a job site looking at PDFs, watch movies, and play games just as well as the $1200 mac book pro. I don't need to do that in 720p resolution, I don't need a super drive sitting idle, I don't need 500 gb of hard drive storage, or the cutting edge RAM speed.
Rather than trying to associate gun crimes with people, they're trying to associate gun crimes with guns, and then just assume that means a person. By printing numbers on the shell casings, they can piggy back on the precedence that has been set by the riaa which is numbers (IP address) = person.
This actually seems like a pretty sane plan for most people who aren't diehard pirates or Netflix users. Most users don't use 300GB.
I just hope they give the option to shut off buying extra bandwidth automatically. I'll buy the 300gb a month, but I don't want anymore. If I hit the cap, cut me off to just a Comcast website where I can buy more. None of this, "For an extra $10 a month we'll give you parental controls to limit the automatic purchase of more bandwidth" crap that cell phone companies pull with text messaging.
I wonder if those folks will remember to put their phone on silent before sending a text message to 911, in the heat of the moment. Otherwise the reply message might attract some unwanted attention.
TSA employees took payments of up to $2,400 to provide drug couriers unfettered access at LAX over a six-month period last year.
Up to $2,400 bucks. That's less than the cost of a first class ticket for the average Joe who doesn't want to deal with TSA. It's also well within the budget of a terrorist organization. That's awfully cheap.
That's a bit like me building a big garage, installing a big-ass natural gas generator and saying my building returns power to the grid.
LEED doesn't recognize natural gas, coal, or large-impact hydro (like Hoover Dam) as sources of renewable energy. So while you could still LEED certify you're building with a natural gas harvester, or a coal fired power plant, or an oil rig (assuming the oil rig isn't movable and has a mailing address per the LEED minimum project requirements), you will have to do so without achieving the "On-site renewable energy" credit.
Also that being said, LEED projects are based on a theoretical energy modeling protocol that is full of holes and easily gamed. Per TFA the building hasn't even opened yet. I'd like to see an article after a year of operation stating the building does actually produce more energy than it consumes or if the energy model was full of crap and this is just a bunch of marketing hyperbole for the architect.
Same. $3 per year is reasonable to save on energy costs. Unfortunately my "7-year" CFL bulbs died in 1 - 2 years.
Keep in mind too that if you live in an area that requires cooling most of the year, using a light bulb that puts out less heat savings on cooling energy, and makes your house more comfortable.
I have no why I can't throw a dry ice bomb into a crowd and risk sending people to the hospital, or if someone is really unlucky, getting them killed. However I can bring a deadly disease, that I didn't want to get vaccinated for, into a crowd of people and risk sending people to the hospital or if someone is really unlucky, getting them killed and others (even people on this site) will defend my decision to not get vaccinated. We need to start holding "I don't want tos" personally liable.
The other thing, of course, is that the company might be installing them just to get this kind of "look how much we care about your data" type of publicity...
This is exactly what they're after.
I worked in Salt Lake City during the Olympics and the local news was talking about how we should expect our commute times to triple, especially if travelling around the venues. My commute went through Salt Lake City and Park City, past a ton of the venues, and I was expecting a nightmare. I ended up leaving 2 hours early and arrived to work 2 hours early the first day. After that I just left at normal time, the nightmare transportation scenario didn't pan out at all..
A) restocking fee for opened items that are not defective.
This is already in place, or maybe this is on bigger ticket items only, but the last few things I've bought from Best Buy had a big yellow piece of tap across the opening that says if this tape is cut and you return the item there will be a 15% restocking fee.
Airlines that predominately do short flights (like Hawaiian does) would find it much easier to be on time than an airline that runs longer duration filghts.
How so? Skywest flies mostly short routes and they had an on-time performance of 79.3%. The airport is where planes get delayed, not in between destinations. A 12 hour flight with the plane on auto-pilot would be a lot more predictable than dealing with an airport/passengers/bags >1 times in the same length of time.
Maybe instead of an online first-come first-serve process Google should hold a ticket lottery for those who want to attend, That will help get the tickets into the hand of pre-qualified developers instead of eBay ticket scalpers.
That won't help. They need to print your name on the ticket. If your ID doesn't match the name on the ticket, you don't get in.
Valve's freemium model is different. The paid content doesn't give you a huge advantage over the free content. Most of the addons are cosmetic and the weapons are balanced or worse than the stock weapons. You're still a competitive player with the free version of TF2, and if you play for a reasonable amount of time the paid content drops randomly anyway. Even if you wanted to sink a bunch of cash into TF2 to be better than everyone else, you can't. I mean, even the paid items can't be crafted.
This implies that the LED is acting as a heat pump, converting heat energy into light. The result is maybe good enough for cooling a few molecules of beer
I'm going to laugh when someone starts telling me to turn *on* my lights to keep my house cool.
On a more serious note, right now a 2.3 COP heat pump doesn't meet minimum code efficiency standards at AHRI conditions. When they figure out how to make this large enough to cool a home, hopefully heat pump technology will have advanced well beyond current COP. It would be a cool dual function, lighting and cooling, maybe in a car where daytime running lights are required by law and gas engines always need cooling?
I wish I had some mod points, because this should be +5 Insightful! Locking the cabin doors would have prevented 9/11 and will prevent further 9/11s from happening should someone try again.
I disagree. In fact the locking cabin doors worked against the passengers of united 93. The problem wasn't locking cabin doors it was the 'response to hijacking' protocol. Pre-9/11 we gave the plane to the terrorist once they held a box cutter to the flight attendants throat, let them carry out their demands, which was usually to fly to cuba or something. Post and even during 9/11 we don't give up the plane at all costs, because if we do we're all dead via flying into a stationary object.
The problem and solution of 9/11 was taken care of on 9/11. (source:http://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=passengers+tackle+man&pbx=1&oq=passengers+tackle+man&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=9064l12364l0l12571l21l13l0l8l8l1l205l1763l0.12.1l21l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=a40723af4d2b94e4&biw=1680&bih=926) All this TSA security is wasted money and loss to freedoms.
Now we can enforce policies which say that workers can't stop until they are completely worn out.
I was thinking it would just vary your pay based on how worn out you are. Stayed up late last night, running on empty today? You're earning about half your salary today then.
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Any war with them with missiles would be concluded before you heard about it on Slashdot.
Isn't this the same attitude we had about Iraq and Afghanistan? The people of NK see us as the enemy, not as the liberator from their wicked dear leader. They'll continue to fight us until every person that can shoot a gun is killed.
Earth Hour isn't meant to actually save any energy, it's to build public awareness.
The problem with raising awareness like this is you create the mindset that to be "green" and save the earth you have to make sacrifices, such as no lights or HVAC. This simply isn't true, people could do wonders towards saving energy by installing more efficient lighting, insulating their attics and hot water pipes, and calking their windows. You don't have to remember to turn it on and off, it works when you sleep, and most important to most you don't have to change your current lifestyle or give something up.
This and according to wikipedia the cost of electricity in the US is 8-17 cents per kWh vs Germany's 31 cents per kWh. This means a much longer payback on investment in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing
Please call SPRINT at 1-800-xxx-xxxx
Telling people, who are looking for their lost phone, to call a number, might not be the most effective tactic. =)
"Originally it was set at $82,000 - but we've since casually chugged on past that point."
Who knows how much this really cost.
I'd love to pay just $300 and get free service. UTOPIA fiber in my area cost 10x that amount as an install cost and you still have to pay a month charge. http://utopianet.org/blogs/news/utopia-remains-a-mystery-to-many-murray-residents
I think that hasn't been true in a long time. You might be able to get a similarly spec'ed laptop if you didn't care about form-factor or style that much, but then it's not really the same product. The new Mac Book Pro has taken things even further by giving the best resolution available for the money. Doing a quick price comparison can show you they aren't overpriced at all. The Dell Ultrabook XPS 13 currently retails for $999, while the Mac Book Air 13" retails at $1199. Of course the Mac is more, but it has a 1400x900 screen as opposed to 720p resolution, 1.8GHz CPU as opposed to 1.6GHz CPU and a height of 0.68 inches vs. 0.71 inches. The rest of the main features seem to be about the same, and while some may say, what's the difference between .68 and .71 inches, well, it's still 5%, which takes quite a lot of engineering to get rid of when you are looking at laptops of this size. Mac laptops are quite competitively priced, the only problem is they've decided not to make $400 laptops. Which is fine, because there is no money to be made in that market anyway.
They're overpriced regarding "How much money do I need to spend to get the task done" not "What gives me the most features for my dollar." A $400 laptop can type Word documents, create Excel spreadsheets, browse the internet, send email, haul it around a job site looking at PDFs, watch movies, and play games just as well as the $1200 mac book pro. I don't need to do that in 720p resolution, I don't need a super drive sitting idle, I don't need 500 gb of hard drive storage, or the cutting edge RAM speed.
Rather than trying to associate gun crimes with people, they're trying to associate gun crimes with guns, and then just assume that means a person. By printing numbers on the shell casings, they can piggy back on the precedence that has been set by the riaa which is numbers (IP address) = person.
This actually seems like a pretty sane plan for most people who aren't diehard pirates or Netflix users. Most users don't use 300GB.
I just hope they give the option to shut off buying extra bandwidth automatically. I'll buy the 300gb a month, but I don't want anymore. If I hit the cap, cut me off to just a Comcast website where I can buy more. None of this, "For an extra $10 a month we'll give you parental controls to limit the automatic purchase of more bandwidth" crap that cell phone companies pull with text messaging.
folks who find themselves in dangerous situations
I wonder if those folks will remember to put their phone on silent before sending a text message to 911, in the heat of the moment. Otherwise the reply message might attract some unwanted attention.
TSA employees took payments of up to $2,400 to provide drug couriers unfettered access at LAX over a six-month period last year.
Up to $2,400 bucks. That's less than the cost of a first class ticket for the average Joe who doesn't want to deal with TSA. It's also well within the budget of a terrorist organization. That's awfully cheap.
That's a bit like me building a big garage, installing a big-ass natural gas generator and saying my building returns power to the grid.
LEED doesn't recognize natural gas, coal, or large-impact hydro (like Hoover Dam) as sources of renewable energy. So while you could still LEED certify you're building with a natural gas harvester, or a coal fired power plant, or an oil rig (assuming the oil rig isn't movable and has a mailing address per the LEED minimum project requirements), you will have to do so without achieving the "On-site renewable energy" credit.
Also that being said, LEED projects are based on a theoretical energy modeling protocol that is full of holes and easily gamed. Per TFA the building hasn't even opened yet. I'd like to see an article after a year of operation stating the building does actually produce more energy than it consumes or if the energy model was full of crap and this is just a bunch of marketing hyperbole for the architect.
Same. $3 per year is reasonable to save on energy costs. Unfortunately my "7-year" CFL bulbs died in 1 - 2 years.
Keep in mind too that if you live in an area that requires cooling most of the year, using a light bulb that puts out less heat savings on cooling energy, and makes your house more comfortable.
I have no why I can't throw a dry ice bomb into a crowd and risk sending people to the hospital, or if someone is really unlucky, getting them killed. However I can bring a deadly disease, that I didn't want to get vaccinated for, into a crowd of people and risk sending people to the hospital or if someone is really unlucky, getting them killed and others (even people on this site) will defend my decision to not get vaccinated. We need to start holding "I don't want tos" personally liable.
The other thing, of course, is that the company might be installing them just to get this kind of "look how much we care about your data" type of publicity...
This is exactly what they're after.
I worked in Salt Lake City during the Olympics and the local news was talking about how we should expect our commute times to triple, especially if travelling around the venues. My commute went through Salt Lake City and Park City, past a ton of the venues, and I was expecting a nightmare. I ended up leaving 2 hours early and arrived to work 2 hours early the first day. After that I just left at normal time, the nightmare transportation scenario didn't pan out at all..
A) restocking fee for opened items that are not defective.
This is already in place, or maybe this is on bigger ticket items only, but the last few things I've bought from Best Buy had a big yellow piece of tap across the opening that says if this tape is cut and you return the item there will be a 15% restocking fee.
for example, the people who buy a giant TV before the big game and then return it on Monday.
How does this system eliminate that example? The customer was still able to return the Blu-Ray.
Won't be long before Best Buy joins Circuit City.
Airlines that predominately do short flights (like Hawaiian does) would find it much easier to be on time than an airline that runs longer duration filghts.
How so? Skywest flies mostly short routes and they had an on-time performance of 79.3%. The airport is where planes get delayed, not in between destinations. A 12 hour flight with the plane on auto-pilot would be a lot more predictable than dealing with an airport/passengers/bags >1 times in the same length of time.
How do you propose to enforce this magic?
Really? The same way they do at the airport.
Maybe instead of an online first-come first-serve process Google should hold a ticket lottery for those who want to attend, That will help get the tickets into the hand of pre-qualified developers instead of eBay ticket scalpers.
That won't help. They need to print your name on the ticket. If your ID doesn't match the name on the ticket, you don't get in.
Mod parent up. This is correct, the article/summary uses bad terminology.
Valve's freemium model is different. The paid content doesn't give you a huge advantage over the free content. Most of the addons are cosmetic and the weapons are balanced or worse than the stock weapons. You're still a competitive player with the free version of TF2, and if you play for a reasonable amount of time the paid content drops randomly anyway. Even if you wanted to sink a bunch of cash into TF2 to be better than everyone else, you can't. I mean, even the paid items can't be crafted.
This implies that the LED is acting as a heat pump, converting heat energy into light. The result is maybe good enough for cooling a few molecules of beer
I'm going to laugh when someone starts telling me to turn *on* my lights to keep my house cool.
On a more serious note, right now a 2.3 COP heat pump doesn't meet minimum code efficiency standards at AHRI conditions. When they figure out how to make this large enough to cool a home, hopefully heat pump technology will have advanced well beyond current COP. It would be a cool dual function, lighting and cooling, maybe in a car where daytime running lights are required by law and gas engines always need cooling?
I wish I had some mod points, because this should be +5 Insightful! Locking the cabin doors would have prevented 9/11 and will prevent further 9/11s from happening should someone try again.
I disagree. In fact the locking cabin doors worked against the passengers of united 93. The problem wasn't locking cabin doors it was the 'response to hijacking' protocol. Pre-9/11 we gave the plane to the terrorist once they held a box cutter to the flight attendants throat, let them carry out their demands, which was usually to fly to cuba or something. Post and even during 9/11 we don't give up the plane at all costs, because if we do we're all dead via flying into a stationary object.
The problem and solution of 9/11 was taken care of on 9/11. (source:http://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=passengers+tackle+man&pbx=1&oq=passengers+tackle+man&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=9064l12364l0l12571l21l13l0l8l8l1l205l1763l0.12.1l21l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=a40723af4d2b94e4&biw=1680&bih=926) All this TSA security is wasted money and loss to freedoms.
Now we can enforce policies which say that workers can't stop until they are completely worn out.
I was thinking it would just vary your pay based on how worn out you are. Stayed up late last night, running on empty today? You're earning about half your salary today then.