1) Coal power plants, which make up half of our electricity production, are the prime emitters of mercury in the world, and emit more, straight into the air, powering an incandescent bulb than a modern CFL would emit if you took all of its contents and vaporized them straight into the jet stream.
That's funny considering the original article is talking about the low power factor of CFLs meaning that power plants have to produce MORE power due to loss on the grid.
No they'll have StarOffice which is what Sun owns. Development can continue on OpenOffice.
My concern is Solaris and MySQL. IBM already has AIX and DB2 so I can see both Solaris and MySQL being dropped completely. This buyout probably explains why the top MySQL guys left Sun recently because they knew what the outcome would be.
I was a geek long before it was chic. I played D&D growing up, had one of the first home video console games, had one of the first home computers, shopped at Radio Shack to buy electronics components so I could follow the designs and plans in early do-it-yourself hobby electronics magazines, etc. So I laugh at people like the guy in the article. They wouldn't know science fiction if Asimov, Bradbury, and Heinlein hit them over the head with it while dancing naked. I've NEVER been their demographic because most of the crap they produce isn't actual SF. They can have their syfy-lis, while I snicker at the posers they really are.
"We spent a lot of time in the 90s trying to distance the network from science fiction, which is largely why it's called Sci Fi", Mr. Brooks said. "It's somewhat cooler and better than the name Science Fiction. But even the name Sci Fi is limiting."
My brain just isn't wired to be dysfunctionaly retarded. Sci Fi IS science fiction you bunch of gibbering monkeys!!!
When I signed the contract for my access there was no limits in it, only a part where it said they'd provide a speed of up to XXX.
And there is exactly the clause that will let them throttle traffic. They provide a speed up to XXX. Does it say they guarantee speed XXX at all times? I doubt that it does. So if they throttle heavy P2P usage, they are still meeting their contractual obligation. You may not like it and you are free to take your business elsewhere but it is not illegal for them to do so.
Its still laughable. Very simple, pay attention and don't touch the computer. There, was that hard?
Maybe I should patent it.."a process of acting like an adult, paying attention, and not checking your email every 2 minutes while attending seminars". Sounds like I could make a bundle.
This has nothing to do with popping up a message that says "please don't touch your computer" - this is about a patent that prevents you from doing so, presumably by forcing the meeting or webinar to full screen, and disabling alt-tab, etc.... the only way to go to another program is to LEAVE the conference.
Well I guess if you have the mind and attention span of a 3 year old this is for you. For those of us who are actually adults and can control ourselves this is laughable.
I don't know of any existing products with this functionality.
I do. It's called not touching the computer, cell phone, PDA, etc. during the f@#$ing meeting.
So they wrote it up first, and you're bitching because you lack the creativity or ambition to do so yourself.
They invented nothing. They created nothing. I've been going to meetings for years and have been "suppressing de-focusing activities" during those meetings by not touching a computer. Is it so hard to not touch the computer that a process needs to be patented? This is the epitome of retarded patents.
Is this not obvious? So that you can fill the surface of the phone with screen, therefore having a bigger screen. You use the keypad when you need it, but then if you wana watch something for example, the keypad goes and you have a nice large screen to watch stuff on.
You really need to see Japanese people texting on their phones to understand.
While your argument does hold some merit to the "discrimination" against foreign products the most likely reason for the iPhone hate is that it does not function the way most Japanese people need it to. When I was in Tokyo last year, for every 10 people I saw using a cell phone 9 of them were texting and most of them had a flip phone. In fact I found the size of the phones to be quite funny because they looked like the early flip phones...very large.
Having seen and played around with an iPhone I can see why it would not appeal to people who just text with their phone. Especially when riding on a train so that you are holding on to the railing with one hand and texting with the other. Also, the keyboard on the iPhone takes up screen space. Why would you want to lose a lot of the screen to a touch keybpad when you can get a phone that has a separate screen and keypad?
The article says it has SDIO and from the pic in the article it looks like there is an SD card slot on one side. So all you need to do is buy a 1 Gig SD card.
NASA still decided not to put on a brush, wiper, or (sorry but lol) air compressor.
There is a thin atmosphere on Mars. It may be enough for a very small air compressor to build up enough pressure to simply blow the dust particles off the panel. We're not talking about moving anything large. Just a small burst to clear the panel. The problem with a brush or wiper is that the moving parts would be exposed to the dust which would most likely result in them breaking. If all that was exposed was a nozzle which the burst of air would come from it would be less prone to breaking.
So what about an air cannon or something? Small pump to take in Martian air, build up pressure, and a small nozzle directed at the panel to blow the dust off.
I know, every ounce of weight and every bit of energy has to be calculated and accounted for. But they had to know that dust would accumulate on the panels and should have accounted for that with some type of design.
Maybe to you, you think its exploitation because you can't see yourself living off such a wage. But obviously they are able to. Oh, now you are thinking "It's not much of a life!" Well, again, that's your view. They may think its perfectly fine. So again, since it is a factory job (that they chose to take) and not a slave labour camp, are they really being exploited?
If there are children working in the factory then that's different.
And they had every choice not to work there. What were they doing before they worked in the factory? Obviously not starving to death, otherwise they would be dead and not working in a factory.
Are they really being exploited? They chose to work there no one forced them. It's not a forced labour camp, its a factory. If they don't like it they can quit and go back to whatever they were doing before they were hired. Oh, but look they don't. They keep working there. Wonder why?
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1) Coal power plants, which make up half of our electricity production, are the prime emitters of mercury in the world, and emit more, straight into the air, powering an incandescent bulb than a modern CFL would emit if you took all of its contents and vaporized them straight into the jet stream.
That's funny considering the original article is talking about the low power factor of CFLs meaning that power plants have to produce MORE power due to loss on the grid.
No they'll have StarOffice which is what Sun owns. Development can continue on OpenOffice.
My concern is Solaris and MySQL. IBM already has AIX and DB2 so I can see both Solaris and MySQL being dropped completely. This buyout probably explains why the top MySQL guys left Sun recently because they knew what the outcome would be.
That levy is for music not movies, television shows, software or whatever else you find on torrent sites.
I was a geek long before it was chic. I played D&D growing up, had one of the first home video console games, had one of the first home computers, shopped at Radio Shack to buy electronics components so I could follow the designs and plans in early do-it-yourself hobby electronics magazines, etc. So I laugh at people like the guy in the article. They wouldn't know science fiction if Asimov, Bradbury, and Heinlein hit them over the head with it while dancing naked. I've NEVER been their demographic because most of the crap they produce isn't actual SF. They can have their syfy-lis, while I snicker at the posers they really are.
"We spent a lot of time in the 90s trying to distance the network from science fiction, which is largely why it's called Sci Fi", Mr. Brooks said. "It's somewhat cooler and better than the name Science Fiction. But even the name Sci Fi is limiting."
My brain just isn't wired to be dysfunctionaly retarded. Sci Fi IS science fiction you bunch of gibbering monkeys!!!
When I signed the contract for my access there was no limits in it, only a part where it said they'd provide a speed of up to XXX.
And there is exactly the clause that will let them throttle traffic. They provide a speed up to XXX. Does it say they guarantee speed XXX at all times? I doubt that it does. So if they throttle heavy P2P usage, they are still meeting their contractual obligation. You may not like it and you are free to take your business elsewhere but it is not illegal for them to do so.
Lawsuit from what? Slowing down P2P traffic which is mostly illegal downloads anyways?
"Your honour, my ISP throttled my illegal download of MP3s and ripped Bluray movies. I want compensation!"
Sure, quit. Right. Hope he doesn't want a reference.
He has no choice but to honor the contract they've made with customers.
Sure he does. He does what his boss tells him to do. Then his boss and the owner deal with the ramifications, not the OP.
Do what your boss asked you to do.
If by useful you mean useless, then yes I agree.
Its still laughable. Very simple, pay attention and don't touch the computer. There, was that hard?
Maybe I should patent it.."a process of acting like an adult, paying attention, and not checking your email every 2 minutes while attending seminars". Sounds like I could make a bundle.
This has nothing to do with popping up a message that says "please don't touch your computer" - this is about a patent that prevents you from doing so, presumably by forcing the meeting or webinar to full screen, and disabling alt-tab, etc.... the only way to go to another program is to LEAVE the conference.
Well I guess if you have the mind and attention span of a 3 year old this is for you. For those of us who are actually adults and can control ourselves this is laughable.
Why not suggest to your manager that it would be useful to have a some computers out in the stacks?
I don't know of any existing products with this functionality.
I do. It's called not touching the computer, cell phone, PDA, etc. during the f@#$ing meeting.
So they wrote it up first, and you're bitching because you lack the creativity or ambition to do so yourself.
They invented nothing. They created nothing. I've been going to meetings for years and have been "suppressing de-focusing activities" during those meetings by not touching a computer. Is it so hard to not touch the computer that a process needs to be patented? This is the epitome of retarded patents.
Is this not obvious? So that you can fill the surface of the phone with screen, therefore having a bigger screen. You use the keypad when you need it, but then if you wana watch something for example, the keypad goes and you have a nice large screen to watch stuff on.
You really need to see Japanese people texting on their phones to understand.
While your argument does hold some merit to the "discrimination" against foreign products the most likely reason for the iPhone hate is that it does not function the way most Japanese people need it to. When I was in Tokyo last year, for every 10 people I saw using a cell phone 9 of them were texting and most of them had a flip phone. In fact I found the size of the phones to be quite funny because they looked like the early flip phones...very large.
Having seen and played around with an iPhone I can see why it would not appeal to people who just text with their phone. Especially when riding on a train so that you are holding on to the railing with one hand and texting with the other. Also, the keyboard on the iPhone takes up screen space. Why would you want to lose a lot of the screen to a touch keybpad when you can get a phone that has a separate screen and keypad?
Really?
Ack, you probably were referring to having 1 Gig of RAM on board and not extra storage.
The article says it has SDIO and from the pic in the article it looks like there is an SD card slot on one side. So all you need to do is buy a 1 Gig SD card.
So you think a tiny air nozzle would sandblast the panels compared to the dust storms on Mars?
NASA still decided not to put on a brush, wiper, or (sorry but lol) air compressor.
There is a thin atmosphere on Mars. It may be enough for a very small air compressor to build up enough pressure to simply blow the dust particles off the panel. We're not talking about moving anything large. Just a small burst to clear the panel. The problem with a brush or wiper is that the moving parts would be exposed to the dust which would most likely result in them breaking. If all that was exposed was a nozzle which the burst of air would come from it would be less prone to breaking.
So what about an air cannon or something? Small pump to take in Martian air, build up pressure, and a small nozzle directed at the panel to blow the dust off.
I know, every ounce of weight and every bit of energy has to be calculated and accounted for. But they had to know that dust would accumulate on the panels and should have accounted for that with some type of design.
Maybe to you, you think its exploitation because you can't see yourself living off such a wage. But obviously they are able to. Oh, now you are thinking "It's not much of a life!" Well, again, that's your view. They may think its perfectly fine. So again, since it is a factory job (that they chose to take) and not a slave labour camp, are they really being exploited?
If there are children working in the factory then that's different.
And they had every choice not to work there. What were they doing before they worked in the factory? Obviously not starving to death, otherwise they would be dead and not working in a factory.
Are they really being exploited? They chose to work there no one forced them. It's not a forced labour camp, its a factory. If they don't like it they can quit and go back to whatever they were doing before they were hired. Oh, but look they don't. They keep working there. Wonder why?