It would have been interesting to include the whole computer in the power measurement. How much more electricity is drawn by a javascript infested site than one that is just static HTML and images ? How much more is drawn if there are 100 components to build the page instead of 20 (don't forget to include the consumption of your broadband modem, etc,...) ? How much more electricity does flash use ? How much more through heavy use of AJAX ?
The biggest difference that they showed was that the use of a glass monitor was about double that of a LCD. With an LCD the CPU/... consumption would be a bigger fraction of the whole thing.
Silly man, he did not understand that globalisation is for corporates to exploit, it is not for individuals to benefit from.
Companies do this all the time: buy goods or get them made where ever in the world it is cheapest for them to do so. They then sell them at different prices in different countries: price it too high in India and you don't get sales, price it too low in Europe and you loose potential profit.
They can't possibly have customers doing the same thing - it would damage their profits and the CEO's bonus would have to be cut. So they adopt all manner of tactics to stop us from benefiting from globalisation in the way that they do: * region coding on DVDs, * refusal to service equipment if imported (even if identical ones are sold in the country), sue non approved importers,... All designed to distort the free market
I would mind paying more for something that I buy in England if it were made with English labour paid English wages. What I object to is them paying third world people slave rates and charging me top dollar - I don't like the hypocrisy of it all.
In these days of austerity - who approved the budget for this and prioritised it over building something more useful like a hospital ?
Or is that classified information ?
Anyway: now that they have it - I propose that we give them something to put in it, how about we start mailing each other 1MB chunks from/dev/random as attachments named things like HowToMakeABomb and pgp encrypted ?
A couple of times in the article the talk about these drones crashing or falling into enemy hands. What they can't bring themselves to say (or perhaps even think about) is that because they will be used for warfare (that is what flying above enemy territory is all about) that they might be shot down. Since it is air borne they are going to want to keep the weight down, this means minimal nuclear containment -- so when it is shot down there will be radio nucleotides all over the place!
Is it a case of hands over eyes and pretend hard, or that since it will be over non USA territory it doesn't matter ?
Either way: I am glad that they are not making these things.
That would work if the pulsars that are visible in the new location have already been catalogued, so I suppose it would only be a problem for the early explorers.
As the spaceship moves some pulsars will drop out of visibility and others will become visible - so the spacecraft can lock on to the new ones, using the old ones to calibrate them. That would work unless we develop some kind of 'jump' technology where we appear at great distance from our last position and have no pulsars in common between the two places, but that would be an interesting problem to have.
If cost is an issue, then use Android based tablets, they are much cheaper than the Apple equivalents that can do the same job. Unless poser value is more important to you than functionality.
10 years ago, I was already happily living in Mexico, my own country,
Have a good time with the Zetas, you subhuman cunt! Stay south of the border. We don't want you.
Woah! What he said was a reasonable point of view - there is no need to be a potty mouth just because you don't like it, you just end up making people think that citizens of the USA are knee jerk trolls.
This shows how important it is that mail list (& similar) archives of very old discussions are kept on-line. They are not just a matter of academic/historic interest, they can have real benefits.
So: if you do host something like this and are thinking of removing it because it is old, out of date,... please think again. Thanks.
Because "stealing" is the only logical explanation for two people coming up with similar ideas at different times, right?
It depends on who you ask and in which context. I don't think that it is, but plenty of people claim that it is when they are trying to get one over a competitor who has a similar idea.
They are going to be told that they must keep the servers - just in case it is needed in some court trial in 2-3 years time, and no they can't claim from law_enforcement/courts/... they must pay for it themselves - tough.
If they had just wiped the machines because their customer had not paid their bills they would have been given a slap on the wrist, now if they do they will be in breach of a court order.
This is the really interesting (and shocking) bit of the story. One has to wonder how much real understanding of the scientific method the editors of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology really have. If they don't understand the value of independent replication - then what are they publishing ? Interesting anecdotes ?
But, Yes - in Britain if you lose a case -- you pay the winning party's legal fees.
Not always, unfortunately. If the other side is legally aided they can claim if they win, if they loose you cannot claim costs from them. If an employer is taken to court by an employee the employer pays the employee's legal bill if he wins or he looses. The only ones who win are parasitic solicitors.
Is this some form of Maxwell's demon, having the same effect but in a way not so far envisaged ? It seems to me that it takes the heat energy, tops it up with some electrical energy and before that process can reverse it radiates the energy away as light. The radiating away has the effect of the trap door - preventing the reversal.
This device may not work well if there are many of them that can shine on each other, an incoming photon could knock an electron up into the conducting band leaving a hole behind and generating some heat. Thus to be useful the light that they generate would have to be directed away with little reflection.
If you are being monitored the police/... can still see who you are talking to even if they can't understand what you are saying.
OK: if messages are routed through a friend to some other ''accomplice'' it makes things a bit harder for them, but most private networks like this will not have huge numbers of people on them. Also you can learn a lot just by studying the timings of packets (eg: a packet from A to B is often followed by a similarly sized packet from B to C, it looks as if A is talking to C).
It works by confusing the speaker with his own words delayed - so if you can't hear your own words because you are wearing ear muffs you won't become confused.
Their laptops, cameras and hard drives were confiscated.
What reason not to give them back (other than summary 'punishment' by the police) ?
If they did not get them back, they have probably been back to take new photos.
who slag off the opposition. What I really want to hear is why they are better, not rude reasons why the opposition is bad. This sort of thing is a complete turn off -- no matter who does it. Mud sticks to the hands of those who throw it.
Will they make the engine/... diagnostics available through this API ? Currently they charge the repair garages a lot to have the software to be able to see why that fault light is lighting up on the dashboard. The effect is driving small repair shops & one man bands out of business -- good for Ford since it keeps their expensive dealerships in business.
I expect not, they would not do anything genuinely useful if it damaged profits.
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It would have been interesting to include the whole computer in the power measurement. How much more electricity is drawn by a javascript infested site than one that is just static HTML and images ? How much more is drawn if there are 100 components to build the page instead of 20 (don't forget to include the consumption of your broadband modem, etc, ...) ? How much more electricity does flash use ? How much more through heavy use of AJAX ?
The biggest difference that they showed was that the use of a glass monitor was about double that of a LCD. With an LCD the CPU/... consumption would be a bigger fraction of the whole thing.
Whoops, omitted word: I would not mind paying more for something ...
Silly man, he did not understand that globalisation is for corporates to exploit, it is not for individuals to benefit from.
Companies do this all the time: buy goods or get them made where ever in the world it is cheapest for them to do so. They then sell them at different prices in different countries: price it too high in India and you don't get sales, price it too low in Europe and you loose potential profit.
They can't possibly have customers doing the same thing - it would damage their profits and the CEO's bonus would have to be cut. So they adopt all manner of tactics to stop us from benefiting from globalisation in the way that they do: * region coding on DVDs, * refusal to service equipment if imported (even if identical ones are sold in the country), sue non approved importers, ... All designed to distort the free market
I would mind paying more for something that I buy in England if it were made with English labour paid English wages. What I object to is them paying third world people slave rates and charging me top dollar - I don't like the hypocrisy of it all.
In these days of austerity - who approved the budget for this and prioritised it over building something more useful like a hospital ? Or is that classified information ?
Anyway: now that they have it - I propose that we give them something to put in it, how about we start mailing each other 1MB chunks from /dev/random as attachments named things like HowToMakeABomb and pgp encrypted ?
A couple of times in the article the talk about these drones crashing or falling into enemy hands. What they can't bring themselves to say (or perhaps even think about) is that because they will be used for warfare (that is what flying above enemy territory is all about) that they might be shot down. Since it is air borne they are going to want to keep the weight down, this means minimal nuclear containment -- so when it is shot down there will be radio nucleotides all over the place!
Is it a case of hands over eyes and pretend hard, or that since it will be over non USA territory it doesn't matter ?
Either way: I am glad that they are not making these things.
That would work if the pulsars that are visible in the new location have already been catalogued, so I suppose it would only be a problem for the early explorers.
As the spaceship moves some pulsars will drop out of visibility and others will become visible - so the spacecraft can lock on to the new ones, using the old ones to calibrate them. That would work unless we develop some kind of 'jump' technology where we appear at great distance from our last position and have no pulsars in common between the two places, but that would be an interesting problem to have.
If cost is an issue, then use Android based tablets, they are much cheaper than the Apple equivalents that can do the same job. Unless poser value is more important to you than functionality.
Demand the same information for flights within the USA that pass within 150 miles of their borders ? If they did - would the USA oblige ?
Have a good time with the Zetas, you subhuman cunt! Stay south of the border. We don't want you.
Woah! What he said was a reasonable point of view - there is no need to be a potty mouth just because you don't like it, you just end up making people think that citizens of the USA are knee jerk trolls.
to generate ethanol rather than butanol and next pipes for ice and fruit juice, then voila - a solar powered cocktail machine!
This shows how important it is that mail list (& similar) archives of very old discussions are kept on-line. They are not just a matter of academic/historic interest, they can have real benefits.
So: if you do host something like this and are thinking of removing it because it is old, out of date, ... please think again. Thanks.
Because "stealing" is the only logical explanation for two people coming up with similar ideas at different times, right?
It depends on who you ask and in which context. I don't think that it is, but plenty of people claim that it is when they are trying to get one over a competitor who has a similar idea.
They are going to be told that they must keep the servers - just in case it is needed in some court trial in 2-3 years time, and no they can't claim from law_enforcement/courts/... they must pay for it themselves - tough.
If they had just wiped the machines because their customer had not paid their bills they would have been given a slap on the wrist, now if they do they will be in breach of a court order.
This is the really interesting (and shocking) bit of the story. One has to wonder how much real understanding of the scientific method the editors of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology really have. If they don't understand the value of independent replication - then what are they publishing ? Interesting anecdotes ?
But, Yes - in Britain if you lose a case -- you pay the winning party's legal fees.
Not always, unfortunately. If the other side is legally aided they can claim if they win, if they loose you cannot claim costs from them. If an employer is taken to court by an employee the employer pays the employee's legal bill if he wins or he looses. The only ones who win are parasitic solicitors.
Is this some form of Maxwell's demon, having the same effect but in a way not so far envisaged ? It seems to me that it takes the heat energy, tops it up with some electrical energy and before that process can reverse it radiates the energy away as light. The radiating away has the effect of the trap door - preventing the reversal.
This device may not work well if there are many of them that can shine on each other, an incoming photon could knock an electron up into the conducting band leaving a hole behind and generating some heat. Thus to be useful the light that they generate would have to be directed away with little reflection.
If you are being monitored the police/... can still see who you are talking to even if they can't understand what you are saying. OK: if messages are routed through a friend to some other ''accomplice'' it makes things a bit harder for them, but most private networks like this will not have huge numbers of people on them. Also you can learn a lot just by studying the timings of packets (eg: a packet from A to B is often followed by a similarly sized packet from B to C, it looks as if A is talking to C).
It works by confusing the speaker with his own words delayed - so if you can't hear your own words because you are wearing ear muffs you won't become confused.
It is 1st March, not 1st April. I'm still not convinced, maybe someone got the month wrong.
What reason not to give them back (other than summary 'punishment' by the police) ? If they did not get them back, they have probably been back to take new photos.
who slag off the opposition. What I really want to hear is why they are better, not rude reasons why the opposition is bad. This sort of thing is a complete turn off -- no matter who does it. Mud sticks to the hands of those who throw it.
By the sound of things he would have done a better job than some humans Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers
Will they make the engine/... diagnostics available through this API ? Currently they charge the repair garages a lot to have the software to be able to see why that fault light is lighting up on the dashboard. The effect is driving small repair shops & one man bands out of business -- good for Ford since it keeps their expensive dealerships in business.
I expect not, they would not do anything genuinely useful if it damaged profits.
I think that we have discovered a logical phallusy.
There: I fixed your spelling for you.