This is either a typo or mistake of some sort. According to SkyBuilt's website (www.skybuilt.com), the device isn't capable of anywhere NEAR 150kW of power.
"SkyBuilt Power® is your premier source for portable, modular, quick assembly, durable, solar, wind, and other distributed power--from 0.5 kW to 50 kW or more."
Yeah. That sounds about right.
Basically its just a shipping container with solar cells or small wind turbines tacked on the sides. Perhaps they did something fancy with the power conditioning or batery circuitry, which COULD make it interesting . . . but ony marginally so. The idea is that you use the inside of the container as a little office or listening post/etc, and it generates its own power. Or it can "use diesel, propane, natural gas or gasoline-powered generators" according to their info, which would seem to defeat the point. Either way I'm not impressed.
Why am I seeing images of a laptop with a photoshopped 2TB "Quantum Memory Unit" in my mind?
Steven Hawking Builds Robotic Exoskeleton: http://www.theonion.com/onion3123/ha wkingexo.html
I still remember laughing my head off at that article years ago, but maybe its not so unrealistic any more? Usually I'd feel bad about Slashdotting The Onion, but they haven't been funny is years anyways.
I work with a major fansubbing group, and I can tell you that within a week of its release this movie will be fansubbed by at least half a dozen groups.
Of course the quality of the video and translation will vary, but if you wait a couple weeks there should be some excellent work out there. Right now fansubbing groups do work that far surpasses commercial releases in terms of translation accuracy and subbing quality.
You know, at first glance I hailed this as an answer to many of the problems I've been having lately with scratched CDs. I do a lot of video encoding work, and thus am constantly carrying around CDs.
Then I saw the size. Unfortunately, most of the stuff I do is sized specifiaclly to fit on a 700mb CD. As is just about everyone else's stuff. So, unless they plan on changing the size that's the reason I won't buy one. Sad, really.
Of course such phrases can be considered %100 legal. Suppose you sell complete, legal albums from your band on your website. Being excluded from Google results would be quite damaging.
Also, belive it or not pr0n is perfectly legal and one of the single most profitable businesses on the Internet. "Full length movies" etc are buzz phrases from porn sites, and if Google starts filtering that too how much further is it to content censorship? For a Slashdot story I really don't like the pro-copyright law spin on this article. Terminating links for whatever reason is a bad thing. Go after the sites themselves for infringement, not search engines.
For most people, such is an unfortunate side effect of becoming an adult. Today's kids don't seem to be having any trouble enjoying current games as much as I did the old ones.
It seems to me it would be far simpler just to have a Pentuim-class machine in each room (you can get them quite small for embedded applications). If you're going to have a display in each room anyways, why not just have that box play the actual mp3s? (One sound card in each machine, far less hassle than 6 in one.
Instead of running speaker and control wire back and forth for every room, each room would be its own stand-alone player. Then you could simply link each to a central fileserver that has all the mp3s on an NFS share. Presumably you'd want to run Cat5 to each room anyways. Just seems like a far more prudent plan to me.
Not once in the article linked as "cast doubt on possible life" is the word "life" even MENTIONED. There's a gas cloud . . . . . where in the world did doubt about life enter the equation? It has nothing whatsoever to do with the article!
Its simple. Just put it on a probe-type spacecraft, send it on a trajectory that will slingshot it around a planet far away enough that it will take as much time as you want to get back. Then, when it returns into earth orbit, have it send out the discovery via shortwave radio, so anybody with he right equipment on the surface can receive it.
Since such a plan has a great feeling of suspense to it, capturing enough attention so that by the time of the announcement there would be plenty of people listening wouldn't be a problem.
There was a time when I read Slashdot religiously, and came back multiple times every hour to read new stories. No longer. While it once was a great way for me to stay abreast of current developments in the Open Source world it doesn't hold the same glow it once did. More and more of my friends have been turning away from it, and now that it comes to this I will too. If I want huge banner ads I'll go to a cheap-ass portal. Slashdot was the one site I always expected to be above it. It saddens me that its come to this. As a college student on a scholarship I get a stipend for cost of living that covers just that. Not only can I not afford it, but paying for Slashdot defeats the whole ideal I thought this site stood for: that information and news should be free, just like code. I guess I was wrong.
I'd love to see the heat problem addressed by manufacturers building liquid coolant systems into smaller PCs. If it were produced as an itegral part of the chassis not only could such a system be small, light, and easy to maintain but it would be quieter and get better performance. Overclockers have been doing it for years, you'd think the industry would notice.
While I love M$ no more than the next/. reader, I'm inclined to side them on this one. I have no problems with people criticizing my work, yet nonetheless I wouldn't want them using logos or banners of my creation on their site that does so. And its not just M$ that does this either; I'm a student at NCSU and it says quite clearly in my web space usage policy that their "Wolf" logos may not be used on any site which insults the university, or that is designed to generate a profit. It simply means that they don't want it to appear that such sites are sponsored by the university. Is there anything wrong with that?
*Sigh* A few hours ago if someone had told me I'd be defending M$ in a/. discussion, I would have laughed for long time . . . . .
As many others have said, I can't imagine what you could be doing that would kill mice at that kind of rate. But if you really need something heavy duty, I would recommend one of the older Sun Microsystems optical mice, like those that used to some with SPARCstations. They're easily the most durable mice I've seen, and hopefull even you would have a time destroying one. You'd need a simple adapter to a regular computer, but its quite possible.
Check up on Ebay and the like for old mice (you also need the aluminum mousepad, which oughta help you as well). If you can't keep one of these for more than a few months, than you've really got problems.
Here at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, we have a UNIX lab run by three selected students, for whom it counts as the "work service" every student must do 3 hours a week to help the school run. Of course, our 10 or so old HP-UX machines are not terribly impressive, and we suffer from underfunding and lack of understanding from our school's IT department at times. Also the school's physics department has two computers for astrophysics data processing which I administrate, but which are only used by students who really need them.
I can tell you that it does work: the key in my opinion is to keep it seperate from the main network and give students a choice of what they would like to use. That way, if something goes wrong, there are always the other public labs run by IT professionals; but if you crave some freedom to intall and run what you want, or just love Linux, you can have the option.
This brings to mind the UNIX lab that my school runs, and maybe that could give an good model of how to set something like this up. Our lab is composed of HP workstations donated to the school, which each run HP-UX. They export a number of applications off of a server running Red Hat, which also serves to mount home directories. This organization has worked pretty well for us, and while the somewhat dated machines can be annoying, exporting displays makes up for it for the students knowledgable enough to do so. More important, I think, is the way the administration is set up. We have three roots, chosen each year, one of whom will usually be around to address any problems that may arise. Beneath them are a small group of knowledgeable users capable of helping the roots. At the school lab, this group are those who are knowledgable enough to compile and run programs not already installed, and they enjoy priviledges like expanded quotas and access to directories like/usr/local/projects. This setup has worked for us for a long time, and is in my mind the best way to set such a thing up. The only important thing is that there should be a good way for new users to get accounts, and someone to help those that might have problems with the interface.
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This is either a typo or mistake of some sort. According to SkyBuilt's website (www.skybuilt.com), the device isn't capable of anywhere NEAR 150kW of power.
"SkyBuilt Power® is your premier source for portable, modular, quick assembly, durable, solar, wind, and other distributed power--from 0.5 kW to 50 kW or more."
Yeah. That sounds about right.
Basically its just a shipping container with solar cells or small wind turbines tacked on the sides. Perhaps they did something fancy with the power conditioning or batery circuitry, which COULD make it interesting . . . but ony marginally so. The idea is that you use the inside of the container as a little office or listening post/etc, and it generates its own power. Or it can "use diesel, propane, natural gas or gasoline-powered generators" according to their info, which would seem to defeat the point. Either way I'm not impressed.
Why am I seeing images of a laptop with a photoshopped 2TB "Quantum Memory Unit" in my mind?
Are you kidding? I know if it were me I wouldn't lose a minute of sleep for taking large amounts of money from SCO! And I have MORALS!
You know, this is almost a tad disturbing:
a wkingexo.html
Steven Hawking Builds Robotic Exoskeleton:
http://www.theonion.com/onion3123/h
I still remember laughing my head off at that article years ago, but maybe its not so unrealistic any more? Usually I'd feel bad about Slashdotting The Onion, but they haven't been funny is years anyways.
I work with a major fansubbing group, and I can tell you that within a week of its release this movie will be fansubbed by at least half a dozen groups.
Of course the quality of the video and translation will vary, but if you wait a couple weeks there should be some excellent work out there. Right now fansubbing groups do work that far surpasses commercial releases in terms of translation accuracy and subbing quality.
Do I hear a Darwin Award?
You know, at first glance I hailed this as an answer to many of the problems I've been having lately with scratched CDs. I do a lot of video encoding work, and thus am constantly carrying around CDs.
Then I saw the size. Unfortunately, most of the stuff I do is sized specifiaclly to fit on a 700mb CD. As is just about everyone else's stuff. So, unless they plan on changing the size that's the reason I won't buy one. Sad, really.
Of course such phrases can be considered %100 legal. Suppose you sell complete, legal albums from your band on your website. Being excluded from Google results would be quite damaging.
Also, belive it or not pr0n is perfectly legal and one of the single most profitable businesses on the Internet. "Full length movies" etc are buzz phrases from porn sites, and if Google starts filtering that too how much further is it to content censorship? For a Slashdot story I really don't like the pro-copyright law spin on this article. Terminating links for whatever reason is a bad thing. Go after the sites themselves for infringement, not search engines.
The t-shirt wears YOU!
(I know, I know . . . . I just couldn't resist)
Mod down someone who took a shot at M$?!
Inconceivable!
For most people, such is an unfortunate side effect of becoming an adult. Today's kids don't seem to be having any trouble enjoying current games as much as I did the old ones.
It seems to me it would be far simpler just to have a Pentuim-class machine in each room (you can get them quite small for embedded applications). If you're going to have a display in each room anyways, why not just have that box play the actual mp3s? (One sound card in each machine, far less hassle than 6 in one.
Instead of running speaker and control wire back and forth for every room, each room would be its own stand-alone player. Then you could simply link each to a central fileserver that has all the mp3s on an NFS share. Presumably you'd want to run Cat5 to each room anyways. Just seems like a far more prudent plan to me.
Not once in the article linked as "cast doubt on possible life" is the word "life" even MENTIONED. There's a gas cloud . . . . . where in the world did doubt about life enter the equation? It has nothing whatsoever to do with the article!
Forget food. I want one that pumps BEER straight into my veins!
Interesting that there's a big advertisement for Visual Studio .net on the page as I read this article . . . . . .
Its simple. Just put it on a probe-type spacecraft, send it on a trajectory that will slingshot it around a planet far away enough that it will take as much time as you want to get back. Then, when it returns into earth orbit, have it send out the discovery via shortwave radio, so anybody with he right equipment on the surface can receive it.
Since such a plan has a great feeling of suspense to it, capturing enough attention so that by the time of the announcement there would be plenty of people listening wouldn't be a problem.
There was a time when I read Slashdot religiously, and came back multiple times every hour to read new stories. No longer. While it once was a great way for me to stay abreast of current developments in the Open Source world it doesn't hold the same glow it once did. More and more of my friends have been turning away from it, and now that it comes to this I will too. If I want huge banner ads I'll go to a cheap-ass portal. Slashdot was the one site I always expected to be above it. It saddens me that its come to this. As a college student on a scholarship I get a stipend for cost of living that covers just that. Not only can I not afford it, but paying for Slashdot defeats the whole ideal I thought this site stood for: that information and news should be free, just like code. I guess I was wrong.
But can it interrupt the Dragon Line long enough for us to kill the insane boo . . . . . . nevermind.
I'd love to see the heat problem addressed by manufacturers building liquid coolant systems into smaller PCs. If it were produced as an itegral part of the chassis not only could such a system be small, light, and easy to maintain but it would be quieter and get better performance. Overclockers have been doing it for years, you'd think the industry would notice.
Actually, what she gave him was a crystal phail with water from her mirror, that had some of the light of a star in it.
And yes, Galadriel is hot . . . .
My god, can you imagine the implications for the p0rn industry?
The battle of the sexes will never be won . . . there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
--Randal
While I love M$ no more than the next /. reader, I'm inclined to side them on this one. I have no problems with people criticizing my work, yet nonetheless I wouldn't want them using logos or banners of my creation on their site that does so. And its not just M$ that does this either; I'm a student at NCSU and it says quite clearly in my web space usage policy that their "Wolf" logos may not be used on any site which insults the university, or that is designed to generate a profit. It simply means that they don't want it to appear that such sites are sponsored by the university. Is there anything wrong with that?
/. discussion, I would have laughed for long time . . . . .
*Sigh* A few hours ago if someone had told me I'd be defending M$ in a
As many others have said, I can't imagine what you could be doing that would kill mice at that kind of rate. But if you really need something heavy duty, I would recommend one of the older Sun Microsystems optical mice, like those that used to some with SPARCstations. They're easily the most durable mice I've seen, and hopefull even you would have a time destroying one. You'd need a simple adapter to a regular computer, but its quite possible. Check up on Ebay and the like for old mice (you also need the aluminum mousepad, which oughta help you as well). If you can't keep one of these for more than a few months, than you've really got problems.
Here at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, we have a UNIX lab run by three selected students, for whom it counts as the "work service" every student must do 3 hours a week to help the school run. Of course, our 10 or so old HP-UX machines are not terribly impressive, and we suffer from underfunding and lack of understanding from our school's IT department at times. Also the school's physics department has two computers for astrophysics data processing which I administrate, but which are only used by students who really need them. I can tell you that it does work: the key in my opinion is to keep it seperate from the main network and give students a choice of what they would like to use. That way, if something goes wrong, there are always the other public labs run by IT professionals; but if you crave some freedom to intall and run what you want, or just love Linux, you can have the option.
This brings to mind the UNIX lab that my school runs, and maybe that could give an good model of how to set something like this up. Our lab is composed of HP workstations donated to the school, which each run HP-UX. They export a number of applications off of a server running Red Hat, which also serves to mount home directories. This organization has worked pretty well for us, and while the somewhat dated machines can be annoying, exporting displays makes up for it for the students knowledgable enough to do so. More important, I think, is the way the administration is set up. We have three roots, chosen each year, one of whom will usually be around to address any problems that may arise. Beneath them are a small group of knowledgeable users capable of helping the roots. At the school lab, this group are those who are knowledgable enough to compile and run programs not already installed, and they enjoy priviledges like expanded quotas and access to directories like /usr/local/projects. This setup has worked for us for a long time, and is in my mind the best way to set such a thing up. The only important thing is that there should be a good way for new users to get accounts, and someone to help those that might have problems with the interface.