The previous poster makes a good (and interesting) point about money spent over time, but he's not also factoring in the fact that power company energy costs are likely to go up dramatically over the next 20 years as oil and other energy sources become more scarce, and environmental factors will also drive up the cost of energy from your power company. I suspect you won't be paying 13c/khw for the next 20 years....
I've read somewhere that our visual input is pretty crappy and our brain learns to tidy the signal a lot. If you have no vision beforehand, 70x70 is a big deal.
Myself, I'll still wait till we get 1MegaPixel versions though.....
When I read Earthsea over 25 years ago at school, the colour of the characters skin was very secondary to the plot. My imagination barely noticed the skin colour amongst the images of pirates, sea wizards, dragons and the isle and school of Roke at the centre of it all.
Even if the series was not all that it should be, Le Guin should accept that the authors imagery is not necessarily going to be that of the reader. Just because she imagined a world of rainbow coloured people doesn't mean that readers are going to do the same.
It's only a matter of time before he installs guns on tracked vehicles, which you can rent out using your credit card, going mobile hunting from the comfort of your own living room.
And for a bonus, it means that you're not there to get your ass shot by your friends in a "hunting accident".
Apparently it didn't make the Booker Prize shortlist because most of the judges felt that a good editor would've removed about 2-300 pages from the story.
I'd be interested to hear the opinion of anyone who has read the thing on this....
I believe that some of the changes he made are documented in the affidavit. Anyway it would matter because the expert is paid an hourly rate, and it's only fair to minimise the time he spends watching TV while the program does the job for him!
Both programs are open source, so I hope he was a good guy and submitted his performance improvements to the maintainers.
A satellite signal has a footprint on the surface of the Earth, but some of that footprint may miss the Earth entirely, thus leaking signal into space.
Slashdot Mirror
So they finally figured out how the Heisenberg compensator works?
Yes. It works just fine.
The previous poster makes a good (and interesting) point about money spent over time, but he's not also factoring in the fact that power company energy costs are likely to go up dramatically over the next 20 years as oil and other energy sources become more scarce, and environmental factors will also drive up the cost of energy from your power company. I suspect you won't be paying 13c/khw for the next 20 years....
The more Douglas Adams seems to have had a view of the future when he talked of how the Infinite Improbability Drive worked.
"all the rocket scientists at Los Alamos have only ever been able to put together a four-centimeter nanotube"
They were distracted looking for smilar lines of code in Linux and SCO Unix!
is making it into everyday use!
Starcops when you really need them?
Officer! Stop that star for speeding!
I've read somewhere that our visual input is pretty crappy and our brain learns to tidy the signal a lot. If you have no vision beforehand, 70x70 is a big deal.
Myself, I'll still wait till we get 1MegaPixel versions though.....
ThinkGeek has been conned into buying thousands of these and wishes to sell them off velly cheep.
the site is all arabic to me
It would be interesting to know the energy costs of making the LCD unit as opposed to that of a TV.
I'd like to know if buying an LCD is greener over the lifespan of the product.
She'll last longer. Ewww!
When I read Earthsea over 25 years ago at school, the colour of the characters skin was very secondary to the plot. My imagination barely noticed the skin colour amongst the images of pirates, sea wizards, dragons and the isle and school of Roke at the centre of it all.
Even if the series was not all that it should be, Le Guin should accept that the authors imagery is not necessarily going to be that of the reader. Just because she imagined a world of rainbow coloured people doesn't mean that readers are going to do the same.
I believe MythTV and other DIY PVR products will already perform as multituner PVRs if there are enough tuners inside them.
Not an attack; Groklaw, sometimes just gets a little crabby, especially when Slashdotted.
It's only a matter of time before he installs guns on tracked vehicles, which you can rent out using your credit card, going mobile hunting from the comfort of your own living room.
And for a bonus, it means that you're not there to get your ass shot by your friends in a "hunting accident".
Boring!!
It looks like the guys in suits won.
You just want to video the action when the babysitter invites her boyfriend around!
What does everyone use for this? Do you use the same equipment as me?
Apparently it didn't make the Booker Prize shortlist because most of the judges felt that a good editor would've removed about 2-300 pages from the story.
I'd be interested to hear the opinion of anyone who has read the thing on this....
I believe that some of the changes he made are documented in the affidavit. Anyway it would matter because the expert is paid an hourly rate, and it's only fair to minimise the time he spends watching TV while the program does the job for him!
Both programs are open source, so I hope he was a good guy and submitted his performance improvements to the maintainers.
Shotguns often have two barrels. Load the first one up with something non-lethal and the second with Regular.
A better installation would have just wired one of those in-car phone chargers to the car battery.
What's the URL for HOWTO: Track your girlfriend by mobile phone and GPS?
If there's a paperclip on the display, I recognise it's Word.
Apart from predicting mobile phones, is this the advent of the moneyless society?
Don't tell the Ferengi!
Medical evidence.
Romans were far more likely to die of something else before lead poisoning got to them.
Its hard to spot a minor factor like lead poisoning before you clear away other more major causes of death.
A satellite signal has a footprint on the surface of the Earth, but some of that footprint may miss the Earth entirely, thus leaking signal into space.