If the site can prove to me it's a great place, I'd be willing to sign up and then login to make comments. But that's really hard to do if I can't jump in and comment anonymously to begin with.
I most certainly will NOT login with a cross-site identity, however. So I agree about there needs to be no requirement for Facebook, Twitter, etc.
"He said that commenting on his own sites (which he's seen make reporters cry) has gotten so bad that he doesn't engage."
There's the answer right there. He is running away from the conversion just because idiots are posting. It's bad enough he let idiots post. Other's are turning away when the comments get flooded by idiocy.
And I don't like to have to sign up just to comment. Nor do I like my identity from another place used. So for a place to be as free and open as Usenet WAS, it needs to be open.
Include moderation. Let the reporter (poster of the article or blog, etc) be king/queen moderator. Allow community moderation, too.
And make comments work. I just tried all this guy's sites, and the comment button didn't even work.
Even CNN won't let Anonymous Coward comment. And we know Anonymous Coward is the most prolific commenter around, both good and bad, agree and disagree, intelligent and just outright stupid.
I set up a separate script in another window that, in a loop, keeps trying to compile and run my program. If it fails, it immediately tries again (I was thinking one day I should make it detect if the code has changed, or not, but then, I figured, I have too much computer power so it needs to be wasted). If the program compiles, and then runs, then it sends me an alert (making loud grunting noises and such). So all I need to do is sit there and randomly code stuff I have no idea about, and keep trying until I hear the grunting noise. Then I'll know it's done, and release the beta version.
Keep the same frame, but just replace stuff with better stuff more commonly available. New ship at half the price. That's assuming the old frame is any good.
Don't you just hate it when there's a simple solution that's not actually being done?
What T-Mobile should do is make EVERY (that means no exceptions whatsoever) phone they offer available in a full-price, unsubsidized, and UNLOCKED, form. Then offer their phone service on month-to-month basis (prepaid for those lacking credit or refusing to allow a credit check)... with pricing for calls, messages, and data just the same as their subsidized plans.
Some people actually want the subsidized plans. I'm not one of them, but I don't want to deny it to someone else if that's what they want and someone wants to provide it to them. But this diversity of offering at least can provide me with what I want. And it would be a means to let the market say what it wants.
Why should they raise the pay of workers when they can raise the payoffs to Congress to get them to vote in more overseas cheap labor... and get a golf buddy at the same time. One stone, two birds, FTW!
The $20/hour tells me their employers think they can offshore these jobs and are just making some whine so they can beg the government to let them import workers.
So maybe you should submit better articles to Slashdot to raise the quality level. Of course, be sure the FULL article, not just the abstract, is available free to the public (or at least to those coming to the site from Slashdot).
I've heard that concentrating light on a solar cell increases the efficiency. So if a concentrator captures 4x light from a 4x aperture onto the same size solar cell surface, you get more electrical energy than just 4 like surfaces. If that's true, the intensity is doing something to avoid the losses, which I assume are heat losses, which should normally be higher with a concentration due to the higher temperature. Any truth or applicability to that?
The Holy Grail of solar power is, of course, to turn 100% of sunlight energy (across a huge spectrum) into an energy form that can be directly used. So I'm looking for that (without all that science background to know the details about things that can really work. My last look into this was trying to find if anyone was building nano Sterling Engines.
They did say the area is 400000 times as much. So it better be producing at least 400000 times the energy to be considered as least equally efficient as what we have now.
Maybe I should create a Facebook page... and fill it up with stories about how I filed lawsuits against numerous businesses that refused to hire me, and won millions in awards.
Slashdot Mirror
... the readership of his sites? I think he's just mad because he found out the ugly truth.
If a higher power created life, then that higher power isn't what was created, and therefore cannot be alive in the sense of this created life.
Yeah, at least this Anonymous Coward dude has diversity. I suspect multiple personality disorder.
Sometimes they have been linked from Slashdot. Then Slashdot hosts real comments.
If the site can prove to me it's a great place, I'd be willing to sign up and then login to make comments. But that's really hard to do if I can't jump in and comment anonymously to begin with.
I most certainly will NOT login with a cross-site identity, however. So I agree about there needs to be no requirement for Facebook, Twitter, etc.
A moderation system is needed, too.
"He said that commenting on his own sites (which he's seen make reporters cry) has gotten so bad that he doesn't engage."
There's the answer right there. He is running away from the conversion just because idiots are posting. It's bad enough he let idiots post. Other's are turning away when the comments get flooded by idiocy.
And I don't like to have to sign up just to comment. Nor do I like my identity from another place used. So for a place to be as free and open as Usenet WAS, it needs to be open.
Include moderation. Let the reporter (poster of the article or blog, etc) be king/queen moderator. Allow community moderation, too.
And make comments work. I just tried all this guy's sites, and the comment button didn't even work.
Solution: choice of view ... but the default should be threaded.
Don't count self replies for bumping purposes.
Moderate (by owner of blog, too, for blogs).
Even CNN won't let Anonymous Coward comment. And we know Anonymous Coward is the most prolific commenter around, both good and bad, agree and disagree, intelligent and just outright stupid.
And that's 4 compiles whether they succeed or fail. Do 'em in parallel FTW!
I set up a separate script in another window that, in a loop, keeps trying to compile and run my program. If it fails, it immediately tries again (I was thinking one day I should make it detect if the code has changed, or not, but then, I figured, I have too much computer power so it needs to be wasted). If the program compiles, and then runs, then it sends me an alert (making loud grunting noises and such). So all I need to do is sit there and randomly code stuff I have no idea about, and keep trying until I hear the grunting noise. Then I'll know it's done, and release the beta version.
They didn't know it at the time, but they could have just kept the reactor running as a source of power for keeping the pumps working.
In the future, build nuclear plants underwater. That way they are already prepared for tsunamis.
Keep the same frame, but just replace stuff with better stuff more commonly available. New ship at half the price. That's assuming the old frame is any good.
Don't you just hate it when there's a simple solution that's not actually being done?
What T-Mobile should do is make EVERY (that means no exceptions whatsoever) phone they offer available in a full-price, unsubsidized, and UNLOCKED, form. Then offer their phone service on month-to-month basis (prepaid for those lacking credit or refusing to allow a credit check) ... with pricing for calls, messages, and data just the same as their subsidized plans.
Some people actually want the subsidized plans. I'm not one of them, but I don't want to deny it to someone else if that's what they want and someone wants to provide it to them. But this diversity of offering at least can provide me with what I want. And it would be a means to let the market say what it wants.
Why should they raise the pay of workers when they can raise the payoffs to Congress to get them to vote in more overseas cheap labor ... and get a golf buddy at the same time. One stone, two birds, FTW!
The $20/hour tells me their employers think they can offshore these jobs and are just making some whine so they can beg the government to let them import workers.
Pay $50/hr and they will come.
So maybe you should submit better articles to Slashdot to raise the quality level. Of course, be sure the FULL article, not just the abstract, is available free to the public (or at least to those coming to the site from Slashdot).
Unless you can find a way to make hydrogen as you need it, in which case storage becomes moot.
I've heard that concentrating light on a solar cell increases the efficiency. So if a concentrator captures 4x light from a 4x aperture onto the same size solar cell surface, you get more electrical energy than just 4 like surfaces. If that's true, the intensity is doing something to avoid the losses, which I assume are heat losses, which should normally be higher with a concentration due to the higher temperature. Any truth or applicability to that?
The Holy Grail of solar power is, of course, to turn 100% of sunlight energy (across a huge spectrum) into an energy form that can be directly used. So I'm looking for that (without all that science background to know the details about things that can really work. My last look into this was trying to find if anyone was building nano Sterling Engines.
Can a dry form of this be used to enhance solar cell efficiency?
They did say the area is 400000 times as much. So it better be producing at least 400000 times the energy to be considered as least equally efficient as what we have now.
And, of course. the government and NASA will help make sure the big corporations will lock out small business and startups from even getting going.
Lots of them end in -OS, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Greece
Maybe I should create a Facebook page ... and fill it up with stories about how I filed lawsuits against numerous businesses that refused to hire me, and won millions in awards.
Imagine what kind of trouble people would be in on Facebook if they were friended by Anonymous Coward.
I NEVER had one ... nyah, nyah, nyah!