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It just seemed like the 'right' word to use at the time, it is not in any way intended to make any kind of statement whatsoever about the ever-popular Slashdot intellectual property debate.
I do not however make any claim to be 'unbiased' or in any way 'sane'.:P
I figured that a Google cache link wasn't quite worthy of being linked in the submission so I just included some details from that article.
There is nothing online with much detail about how exactly the connections were made or how the end users/landlords were charged for them (eg one-off payment for connection to free juice, or some kind of billing) other than a police spokesman saying "OMG dangerous" which they can be relied upon to say about anything.
Let me flip that on you: find me ANY tv which has a 1920x1080 panel.
I've got one right here, connected to my PC on HDMI.
To test, I moved my browser window onto the TV; and the dot of the 'i's on this very Slashdot page takes up 1 pixel, as you can see if you walk right up to the TV; the same as it does on my 1920x1200 monitor with everything being at the same scale (accounting for a little vertical crop moving from 1200px to 1080px).
Its a Hitachi L37V01UA. Considering that I bought it about 3 years ago in the post-christmas sale specifically because it was the cheapest 37" 1080p TV that I could find, I would suggest that other 1080p TVs also have a 1920x1080 panel.
The first thing any government will ask is: "So who will be in control of all the world's power?"
Nobody. What would actually happen is that whoever controls the satellite would have to sell the power at a price it will sell at, i.e not more than other power generators are selling for.
Unless of course the owners of the satellite buy out/bribe governments for control over every other generator of electrical power in the world; in which case the maximum price will be when a substantial number of power consumers are willing to switch to microgeneration/hydraulic power/whatever.
It is true that someone (be that a government, corporation or both) would be in charge of a huge chunk of energy production, but not at all in a "I control all the world's power MWAHAHAHA!!" way.
That's not very accurate. It doesn't require bare skin, it's permanent not temporary, and it's not just a blotchy rash, it's a blotchy rash that can form weeping skin lesions and sores, and can become cancerous.
[Citation needed]
Not one source I've seen has said that. The most damning I've seen talks about 'a small statistical risk' of a skin tumour developing after 30 years of continued heat exposure. The rash only gains any permenance if someone utterly ignores it and continues repeatedly exposing the area involved to heat over a long period.
Lets not take things from a sensible level ("if a hot laptop is giving you a rash, stop putting it on your lap") to a ridiculous level ("using a laptop will give you cancer").
"With the current emphasis on security demand for bomb disposal expertise is booming."
"This event is no flash-in-the-pan"
"We've had an explosive reaction"
In the UK, ATMs owned & operated by a bank are indeed free for all to use. There was a short time a number of years ago when the banks started charging customers of other banks to use their ATMs (around £1-£2). This ended after about a year after a massive consumer outcry.
There ARE a large number of 'private' 3rd party ATMs, which are usually the small freestanding kind you find in shops, petrol stations etc. These DO charge anyone (normally between £1.50 - £5) and fill the gaps in bank ATM coverage. ATMs in (relatively) 'remote' locations (i.e without direct local competition) often charge in this way, for example at motorway service areas.
I'm sorry, I meant "here in Europe the trains are free, come every 2 minutes and travel at 1000km/h; cars fly and run on nuclear fusion, there are 40 doctors for every person and it's all because we aren't greedy like those rude fat americans are!!(end sarcasm)
TEAM players each and every one of them. There's no room for people who can't act as a team on my team.
TEAM! Team team team team team! I even love saying the word 'team'. You probably think that's a picture of my family, nyah-ah. It's The A-Team.
According to Google's information for Adwords users, ads only count an 'impression' (view) if its on the screen for 2 seconds or more, or the searcher clicks something else on the particular iteration of the page thats displaying the ad.
More ad impressions help Google but only very slightly; more impressions for the same number of clicks = lower clickthrough rate, which means that Google can decrease an advertiser's "quality score", which will increase in a small way the amounts they have to bid to appear.
My take on Google's rationale is this; Now I'm a small-time Adwords advertiser in my day job, which gives me a little insight into how the ad empire runs.
For the uninitiated, Google sells the ads on a per click basis, with the price per click decided with a keyword auction. So, if one was in the business of renting out monkeys, one might bid for "monkey rental", "monkey hire", "hire monkeys in Smalltown" etc etc.
Popular keywords (eg "monkey hire") will cost more per click than less popular keywords (eg "short term monkey rental in Tinyplace"). Savvy advertisers might spread their bids to avoid overpaying for the highly competitive search terms and get some cheaper clicks in the 'long tail' of obscure searches.
This is where 'instant search' comes in. Say a user was seeking to rent a monkey and begins typing in Google- "Monkey.." with the intention of typing "Monkey leasing in Anothertown". Google suggests (and loads the results page for) "Monkey hire". User thinks 'okay' and uses the results page for "Monkey hire" to select a result or ad to click on. Repeat this process across X users.
The result is that the proportion of users who 'search' for popular keyword combinations increases, as many will settle for whatever Google has suggested. The total number of ad clicks will stay roughly the same, as there will be the same number of people searching. The bid price per ad click will increase, as unpopular keywords become even less popular and users are nudged towards the most common variations. Google profits.
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· Score: 4, Funny
Imagine a car made out of this kind of metal. Someone ploughs into you, tow the car home, apply a flame and presto! off you go again.
Imagine a carriage that propels itself without the need for horses, fuelled by otherwise useless petroleum spirits. Like magic from some Jules Verne novel, such a carriage could carry a family for hundreds of miles at high speed without tiring, and could revolutionise transportation. Belive it or not, such carriages already exist....
The actual notation used in math questions and textbooks is a blank space (e.g., an underlined blank space). The parenthesis are a poor attempt and rendering that in text.
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I first heard of this stuff about 10 years ago, under the name "SmartWater" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartWater
IIRC it won some kind of 'Millenium Award' in 1999 or 2000
What happened in 2002? Did Warren Buffet invest in automotive wiring companies??
for five minutes, until the joke wears thin
... per person who thinks it would be funny... which could be >20,000 people
Now nobody will ever know what you post on Facebook from an untrusted computer! Wait..
It just seemed like the 'right' word to use at the time, it is not in any way intended to make any kind of statement whatsoever about the ever-popular Slashdot intellectual property debate.
I do not however make any claim to be 'unbiased' or in any way 'sane'. :P
I got the details about the landlord being prosecuted from here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4m7ouHfb-GwJ:findarticles.com/p/news-articles/people-the-london-uk/mi_8046/is_20100919/revolting-behaviour/ai_n55280555/+derek+brown+Haresh+Parmar&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
I figured that a Google cache link wasn't quite worthy of being linked in the submission so I just included some details from that article.
There is nothing online with much detail about how exactly the connections were made or how the end users/landlords were charged for them (eg one-off payment for connection to free juice, or some kind of billing) other than a police spokesman saying "OMG dangerous" which they can be relied upon to say about anything.
In Soviet Russia, tank.. erm .. you blow up .. er... never mind.
You might as well say that X% of newspaper articles are 'ignored' because they don't generate letters to the Editor about them.
I am NOT expressing any opinion on the subjective usefulness of the average tweet, however.
Yep, fine. Image fills the screen,the finest 1px grill shows single rows of black & white pixels.
That image is already aliased.
Let me flip that on you: find me ANY tv which has a 1920x1080 panel.
I've got one right here, connected to my PC on HDMI.
To test, I moved my browser window onto the TV; and the dot of the 'i's on this very Slashdot page takes up 1 pixel, as you can see if you walk right up to the TV; the same as it does on my 1920x1200 monitor with everything being at the same scale (accounting for a little vertical crop moving from 1200px to 1080px).
Its a Hitachi L37V01UA. Considering that I bought it about 3 years ago in the post-christmas sale specifically because it was the cheapest 37" 1080p TV that I could find, I would suggest that other 1080p TVs also have a 1920x1080 panel.
The first thing any government will ask is: "So who will be in control of all the world's power?"
Nobody. What would actually happen is that whoever controls the satellite would have to sell the power at a price it will sell at, i.e not more than other power generators are selling for.
Unless of course the owners of the satellite buy out/bribe governments for control over every other generator of electrical power in the world; in which case the maximum price will be when a substantial number of power consumers are willing to switch to microgeneration/hydraulic power/whatever.
It is true that someone (be that a government, corporation or both) would be in charge of a huge chunk of energy production, but not at all in a "I control all the world's power MWAHAHAHA!!" way.
That's not very accurate. It doesn't require bare skin, it's permanent not temporary, and it's not just a blotchy rash, it's a blotchy rash that can form weeping skin lesions and sores, and can become cancerous.
[Citation needed]
Not one source I've seen has said that. The most damning I've seen talks about 'a small statistical risk' of a skin tumour developing after 30 years of continued heat exposure. The rash only gains any permenance if someone utterly ignores it and continues repeatedly exposing the area involved to heat over a long period.
Lets not take things from a sensible level ("if a hot laptop is giving you a rash, stop putting it on your lap") to a ridiculous level ("using a laptop will give you cancer").
"With the current emphasis on security demand for bomb disposal expertise is booming."
"This event is no flash-in-the-pan"
"We've had an explosive reaction"
More accurate would be "LAPTOP USE ON BARE SKIN MAY CAUSE TEMPORARY BLOTCHY THIGHS", but that wouldn't grab people's attention as much.
I'm sorry as well, I shouldn't post pre-lunch when I'm cranky :)
Sorry, but you're wrong
In the UK, ATMs owned & operated by a bank are indeed free for all to use. There was a short time a number of years ago when the banks started charging customers of other banks to use their ATMs (around £1-£2). This ended after about a year after a massive consumer outcry.
There ARE a large number of 'private' 3rd party ATMs, which are usually the small freestanding kind you find in shops, petrol stations etc. These DO charge anyone (normally between £1.50 - £5) and fill the gaps in bank ATM coverage. ATMs in (relatively) 'remote' locations (i.e without direct local competition) often charge in this way, for example at motorway service areas.
I'm sorry, I meant "here in Europe the trains are free, come every 2 minutes and travel at 1000km/h; cars fly and run on nuclear fusion, there are 40 doctors for every person and it's all because we aren't greedy like those rude fat americans are!!(end sarcasm)
I'd just employ Moss, Roy and Jen.
TEAM players each and every one of them. There's no room for people who can't act as a team on my team.
TEAM! Team team team team team! I even love saying the word 'team'. You probably think that's a picture of my family, nyah-ah. It's The A-Team.
According to Google's information for Adwords users, ads only count an 'impression' (view) if its on the screen for 2 seconds or more, or the searcher clicks something else on the particular iteration of the page thats displaying the ad.
More ad impressions help Google but only very slightly; more impressions for the same number of clicks = lower clickthrough rate, which means that Google can decrease an advertiser's "quality score", which will increase in a small way the amounts they have to bid to appear.
My take on Google's rationale is this; Now I'm a small-time Adwords advertiser in my day job, which gives me a little insight into how the ad empire runs.
For the uninitiated, Google sells the ads on a per click basis, with the price per click decided with a keyword auction. So, if one was in the business of renting out monkeys, one might bid for "monkey rental", "monkey hire", "hire monkeys in Smalltown" etc etc.
Popular keywords (eg "monkey hire") will cost more per click than less popular keywords (eg "short term monkey rental in Tinyplace"). Savvy advertisers might spread their bids to avoid overpaying for the highly competitive search terms and get some cheaper clicks in the 'long tail' of obscure searches.
This is where 'instant search' comes in. Say a user was seeking to rent a monkey and begins typing in Google- "Monkey.." with the intention of typing "Monkey leasing in Anothertown". Google suggests (and loads the results page for) "Monkey hire". User thinks 'okay' and uses the results page for "Monkey hire" to select a result or ad to click on. Repeat this process across X users. The result is that the proportion of users who 'search' for popular keyword combinations increases, as many will settle for whatever Google has suggested. The total number of ad clicks will stay roughly the same, as there will be the same number of people searching. The bid price per ad click will increase, as unpopular keywords become even less popular and users are nudged towards the most common variations. Google profits.
Imagine a car made out of this kind of metal. Someone ploughs into you, tow the car home, apply a flame and presto! off you go again.
A memory-metal Pinto would be self repairing...
Imagine a carriage that propels itself without the need for horses, fuelled by otherwise useless petroleum spirits. Like magic from some Jules Verne novel, such a carriage could carry a family for hundreds of miles at high speed without tiring, and could revolutionise transportation. Belive it or not, such carriages already exist....
The actual notation used in math questions and textbooks is a blank space (e.g., an underlined blank space). The parenthesis are a poor attempt and rendering that in text.
Maybe the _______ Act of ________ ( http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/08/10/1357207/Senate-Approves-the-Act-Of ) will address this problem!
I don't think the kind of people that buy an Audi R8 .....
Audi A8 != R8. The R8 is a sports car. The A8 is a large saloon/sedan.