But just "recycling" isn't enough - in fact it can be worse than landfilling it in North America!
Why? Much of tech waste sent for recycling ends up in China and other countries where unprotected workers burn material in open fires to separate out the metals from the plastics, and use hydrochloric acid (again unprotected) to isolate gold and other precious metals. It's a horrible practice. Visit the web site of the Basel Action Network for photos of the conditions. Included in the photo gallery are American municipal, hospital and school identification stickers from material at these overseas sites.
In Ontario there is only one company that truly recycles electronics - Noranda's plant in Brampton, Ontario. They have a lead smelter on-site, and you have to pay to send material to them. There are many companies that will take your electronics waste for free, but guess where it ends up. Not at a proper recycling plant in North America, that's for sure.
Always ask the company who is picking up your e-waste where it is going for processing.
Nobody would build a hybrid with a 120V socket capable to drive power tools and a microwave. That's because it would kill some of the same company's other business: Portable generators, regular cars, trucks and SUVs. (Not to mention the housing business since you could live in your car in style!)
Ummm.. GM makes a Sierra/Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Hybrid with 120-volt, 20-amp electrical auxiliary power outlets. It can apparently run for 32 hours non-stop until you need to drive off and get some gas (the generator shuts off to leave enough gasoline in reserve).
Windaus Energy (Ontario, Canada) has developed prototypes of a vertical-axis wind turbine and are looking for places to install working demos.
From an announcement they sent out earlier this year:
Designed and manufactured by Windaus, this device and the attendant transmission system is the first three-vane helical concept to our knowledge. Some limited testing has been done by the company but no formal field-testing for commercial application has yet been completed.
The prototypes are mounted with the larger models on wheeled trailers.
The properties inherent to our design do not allow the outer edge of the vanes to exceed wind speed. They are virtually silent. They are not intimidating. The design relies on torque rather than speed, and many benefits are derived from this concept. Also, most of the "working parts" are housed at the base of the frame, facilitating easy maintenance and simple upgrades. Its operation mitigates many challenges facing conventional horizontal-axis turbines.
Specifications are available on their website, including output, torque, power output. As other people have pointed out, there are some disadvantages to this style of turbine, but there are also some advantages. It looks far more suitable for local micro power than mega wind farms.
It is true that science can be done in the space station. But science
can also be done dressed in a clown suit atop a large Ferris wheel. The argument ought to be over where is the best place for it. Performing experiments in microgravity does not require a $100 billion platform. Moreover, much of the work that can genuinely be done only on the station is justified through another magnificently circular leap of logic. Research into the effects of microgravity on human health and the growth of soya beans, for instance, is useful only in the context of a manned mission to Mars.
So maybe this is some kind of collaberative thing gone wrong, or two friends who are now on the outs.
It could very well be. Looking at Toniarts.com in archive.org shows that that the two have been partnered since early 2001, with a splash screen advertising both organizations with equal prominince.
The "help us improve" link is okay, but a little general. Most of us slashdot readers know when a search result is truly bogus, and there's a more advanced form we can use for reporting abusers directly:
This will give you options of reporting cloaked pages, doorway pages, deceptive redirects, misleading or repeated words, hidden text, etc. You have to be more specific than the "help us improve" link at the bottom of search results. Using this form I've seen abusive sites disappear from Google's index in less than 12 hours.
I was watching Terminator 3 on DVD a couple of weeks ago and in two instances I clearly heard the "Wowrraar!" scream of a panther/cougar/wildcat/"Thundercat"(TM):
1) When the crane flips over and hits the conveniently located truck carrying welding gas tanks..boom..wowrarrr!
2) Near the end when the Terminator crash-lands a helicopter into a tunnel and slides along the ground. booom...screech..wowrarrr!
These cat screams jolted me out of the movie. What the heck was a cougar scream doing in there? Is it supposed to make it "cool" or something? The Terminatrix's scream is different, much more mechanical, so I doubt it's supposed to be her.
The audience for that presentation was for a group of webmasters at a public academic institution, many of whom used dreamweaver or frontpage to maintain departmental websites, but were looking at alternatives. For the most part universities have been choosing proprietary closed-source CMSs or doing it in house. The intent was to get them to consider open source, and give them some generalizations especially with respect to the program architecture.
Zope is great. Plone is pretty good. But not for this case. The problem is usability for the end user, especially since the writer asking slashdot said that the intended audience is a computer illiterate family. Plone is still not usable enough that audience. Not without more work.
I've looked into all sorts of content management systems and have tried many of them out.
You can see my review of CMSs as a presentation (PDF) here.
Unfortunately just about all open source CMSs leave a lot to be desired in terms of out-of-the-box architecture and usability.
Don't use Plone/Zope, Drupal, Slashcode, etc. etc.
Macromedia Contribute, though $$$$, might be a good solution because you can lock them out from messing around with the site, but there is still a learning curve for newbies
Good blogging software like MT mentioned earlier would work well, along with something like Gallery for photos.
Quite frankly, Mac.com seems to be the best out there. It's really easy to use. Of course, you need a Macintosh to make it worthwhile, but it really seems to be a good solution for what you're looking for.
Interesting, if I do a google search for Charles Booker Spam I get many hits to the Reuters story (on yahoo, msnbc, etc). The cached pages show Booker highlighted throughout. However upon clicking through all of the stories have been changed to Booher.
It looks like there was an error in the name in the earlier Reuters and it has since been corrected and sent out over the wires.
Can a slashdot editor please change the name in the original submission?
Especially in view of the fact your opinion of the correct spelling of Booher is without attribution.
Well, either Reuters is wrong or Wired -- the original article linked to in this discussion, therefore no attribution should be necessary -- is wrong. Reuters spells it Booher, Wired spells it Booker.
And why did you have conclude with a rant about Linux? Do you honestly think that the SF City Attourney's office cares what operating system the guy is using?
No, Albion Medical is the company that makes the spamvertized product. The "unnamed Canadian company" that Wired did not disclose is DM Contact Management, specifically president Douglas Mackay, who did the advertising.
None of this would be a problem if arterial intersections were designed as roundabouts, like in Europe. But, like lane-splitting for motorcycles, they scare the crap out of soccer moms, so I guess they aren't going to be put in place any time soon in North America.
Roundabouts are not to be confused with traffic circles which are usually retrofits of existing intersections. Traffic circles are meant to slow down traffic on lower-volume streets. The ones on the street where I live don't seem to slow the 'regulars', who not surprisingly who also run through stop signs.
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· Score: 2, Informative
There are actually providers out there that do this, though I don't know any of them by name
JohnCompanies is one such host that uses FreeBSD jails to give you your own root and ports tree.
You can try two things at the same time: Diet and self-hypnosis.
With diet, eliminate sugar & caffeine. Add lots of vegetables. Supplement with fish oils which are like a brain boost. Once I changed my diet around I started thinking clearer and my concentration improved.
With self-hypnosis (either by yourself or with a trained professional) you can train yourself to increase concentration and, more importantly, block out distractions, including distractions from your own mind.
In the end, the most likely cause of your procrastination is because you don't want to be doing what you must do. If you can find a way to better enjoy the work you've been assigned, then you'll find that you can sit down and work on it with ease.
If all else fails (and it shouldn't, as you're the one in control) unplug your network connection, and get someone to check up on you every hour to make sure you're not just sitting there sharpening your pencils or something.
Windows Update is flawed. I did a search the other week to find out more information on why some of our Windows 2000 workstations were suggesting old patches needed to be applied.
For example, I've downloaded, installed, and rebooted as required for the security update from Feb 13 for MSXML 4.0 and the bloody thing still keeps coming back!
Now I've got ones from April and later that keep returning like zombies to haunt me. You'd *think* that it would be simple... but noooo.
So, does that mean that the commonly taught 4kcal 9kcal 4kcal for protein, fat, carbohydrate respectively, already takes into consideration the thermogenic requirements?
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But just "recycling" isn't enough - in fact it can be worse than landfilling it in North America!
Why? Much of tech waste sent for recycling ends up in China and other countries where unprotected workers burn material in open fires to separate out the metals from the plastics, and use hydrochloric acid (again unprotected) to isolate gold and other precious metals. It's a horrible practice. Visit the web site of the Basel Action Network for photos of the conditions. Included in the photo gallery are American municipal, hospital and school identification stickers from material at these overseas sites.
In Ontario there is only one company that truly recycles electronics - Noranda's plant in Brampton, Ontario. They have a lead smelter on-site, and you have to pay to send material to them. There are many companies that will take your electronics waste for free, but guess where it ends up. Not at a proper recycling plant in North America, that's for sure.
Always ask the company who is picking up your e-waste where it is going for processing.
Ummm.. GM makes a Sierra/Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Hybrid with 120-volt, 20-amp electrical auxiliary power outlets. It can apparently run for 32 hours non-stop until you need to drive off and get some gas (the generator shuts off to leave enough gasoline in reserve).
Windaus Energy (Ontario, Canada) has developed prototypes of a vertical-axis wind turbine and are looking for places to install working demos.
From an announcement they sent out earlier this year:
Specifications are available on their website, including output, torque, power output. As other people have pointed out, there are some disadvantages to this style of turbine, but there are also some advantages. It looks far more suitable for local micro power than mega wind farms.
> Which Mambo? The open source version or
> the corporate version by Miro?
Number 5.
They also released an extension with 'suggestions', just like at Google Suggest.
Get them both, along with the toolbar, at http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/extensions/
It could very well be. Looking at Toniarts.com in archive.org shows that that the two have been partnered since early 2001, with a splash screen advertising both organizations with equal prominince.
I didn't know grandmothers required electricity.
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
This will give you options of reporting cloaked pages, doorway pages, deceptive redirects, misleading or repeated words, hidden text, etc. You have to be more specific than the "help us improve" link at the bottom of search results. Using this form I've seen abusive sites disappear from Google's index in less than 12 hours.
They are very receptive to reports and I've seen deceptive sites removed from the index in less than 12 hours.
I was watching Terminator 3 on DVD a couple of weeks ago and in two instances I clearly heard the "Wowrraar!" scream of a panther/cougar/wildcat/"Thundercat"(TM):
1) When the crane flips over and hits the conveniently located truck carrying welding gas tanks..boom..wowrarrr!
2) Near the end when the Terminator crash-lands a helicopter into a tunnel and slides along the ground. booom...screech..wowrarrr!
These cat screams jolted me out of the movie. What the heck was a cougar scream doing in there? Is it supposed to make it "cool" or something? The Terminatrix's scream is different, much more mechanical, so I doubt it's supposed to be her.
The audience for that presentation was for a group of webmasters at a public academic institution, many of whom used dreamweaver or frontpage to maintain departmental websites, but were looking at alternatives. For the most part universities have been choosing proprietary closed-source CMSs or doing it in house. The intent was to get them to consider open source, and give them some generalizations especially with respect to the program architecture.
Zope is great. Plone is pretty good. But not for this case. The problem is usability for the end user, especially since the writer asking slashdot said that the intended audience is a computer illiterate family. Plone is still not usable enough that audience. Not without more work.
You can see my review of CMSs as a presentation (PDF) here.
Unfortunately just about all open source CMSs leave a lot to be desired in terms of out-of-the-box architecture and usability.
Interesting, if I do a google search for Charles Booker Spam I get many hits to the Reuters story (on yahoo, msnbc, etc). The cached pages show Booker highlighted throughout. However upon clicking through all of the stories have been changed to Booher.
It looks like there was an error in the name in the earlier Reuters and it has since been corrected and sent out over the wires.
Can a slashdot editor please change the name in the original submission?
Well, either Reuters is wrong or Wired -- the original article linked to in this discussion, therefore no attribution should be necessary -- is wrong. Reuters spells it Booher, Wired spells it Booker.
His name is Booker, not Booher.
And why did you have conclude with a rant about Linux? Do you honestly think that the SF City Attourney's office cares what operating system the guy is using?
There's more information (including the company name, which Wired withheld) here.
There's more information (including the company name, which Wired withheld) here.
Roundabouts are not to be confused with traffic circles which are usually retrofits of existing intersections. Traffic circles are meant to slow down traffic on lower-volume streets. The ones on the street where I live don't seem to slow the 'regulars', who not surprisingly who also run through stop signs.
You can try two things at the same time: Diet and self-hypnosis.
With diet, eliminate sugar & caffeine. Add lots of vegetables. Supplement with fish oils which are like a brain boost. Once I changed my diet around I started thinking clearer and my concentration improved.
With self-hypnosis (either by yourself or with a trained professional) you can train yourself to increase concentration and, more importantly, block out distractions, including distractions from your own mind.
In the end, the most likely cause of your procrastination is because you don't want to be doing what you must do. If you can find a way to better enjoy the work you've been assigned, then you'll find that you can sit down and work on it with ease.
If all else fails (and it shouldn't, as you're the one in control) unplug your network connection, and get someone to check up on you every hour to make sure you're not just sitting there sharpening your pencils or something.
Windows Update is flawed. I did a search the other week to find out more information on why some of our Windows 2000 workstations were suggesting old patches needed to be applied.
For example, I've downloaded, installed, and rebooted as required for the security update from Feb 13 for MSXML 4.0 and the bloody thing still keeps coming back!
Now I've got ones from April and later that keep returning like zombies to haunt me. You'd *think* that it would be simple... but noooo.
So, does that mean that the commonly taught 4kcal 9kcal 4kcal for protein, fat, carbohydrate respectively, already takes into consideration the thermogenic requirements?