Nice to see Microsoft is using open source games to show the capabilities of their system. It's a bit disappointing to see that they misspelled SuperTuxCart (sic) in the YouTube video.
It's not in the speed you drive, it's in the way you drive. It's in little things like: - Don't rev the engine above 2500 rpm, change gears faster. - When a traffic light ahead is red, take your foot from the accelerator. Modern engines use no (that's right: NO) fuel on engine braking. - Anticipate to the traffic ahead, e.g. give room for somebody so you can slide into his spot. - Don't start the engine until you are ready to set off.
And this will absolutely NOT make you drive any slower, but I've seen tests where they showed you could save somewhere in the range of 6 to 15% fuel.
I guess removing the oxygen from air is a very energy inefficient method. I've got an environmentally better solution:
Why, in stead of nitrogen enriched air, use carbondioxyde (CO2) gas? CO2 is not flammable and doesn't attack the hardware and reduces fire hazard just like nitorgen gas (N2).
Get a server plant a power station (preferably running on natural gas) and a house. Power plant feeds energy to server plant and house. Power plant feeds produced CO2 to server plant. Coolant is first fed to servers and then to power plant. Afterwards used to heat house. There simply is no added energy required.
Get a greenhouse, feed it with CO2 from power plant to make food for the house and presto!
____ Some of my entries might have been filed under "B" for bad ideas, I have no idea why.
I wonder how much science is hurt by the stricted immigration laws in America after 9/11?
And I am certain the new immegration laws does hurt US science, RIGHT NOW. I know of one bright scientific mind at my university here in Europe whom American Universities wanted badly, but still struggled to get through the immegration proces and getting a visa. The amount of burocracy was frankly staggering and only due to the Universities help (the American one) he succeded after 4 months to get a visa. And I know a lot mor ewho did not go the America just because they had to fact this monster more or less alone.
Do you think this linux revival in American schools has all to do with the funding (and lack thereof)? Because linux gives two advantages: Using old hardware longer and use cheaper (note: I'm not saying free) software. I don't see any other advantages.
---- How do you switch to linux? Simple: Start simple. Use it for word processing and surfing. Work from there to some more unfamiliar ground.
Well, this election in the Netherlands some people concerned with the abovementioned effect (viz. a newspaper and a university) have created http://www4.kieskompas.nl/a competing site(unfortunately no english verions available) which wanted to provide a more graduated result. Hell, there was even http://www.partijwijzer.nl/a similar website(currently offline for obvious reasons, i.e. elections are over) aimed at younger (age < 30) voters.
As long as there are more than one what-should-I-vote websites and most people visit several, I don't see the problem.
I was on a (admittedly Dutch) Cathlic highschool. But they taught safe sex, Darwinism (Intelligent Design wasn't a big thing back then), Science, but also the beliefs of Catholism, Jemism, Islamism, Hindoism (sp?).
The job of a school is to educate, not to select. An educated child makes wise decisions, which in turn make them better adults.
I thought that people investigated BECAUSE the body responded diffentently on nanotechnological materials. And also BECAUSE materials combined and shaped in unusual ways got unusual results.
P.S. The nanotechnology hype is over. It has been for some time now. All nanotech products I've seen so far is an anti-fog, anti-rain spray for your cars widscreen. Just like the dot-com bubble it didn't live up to the high expectations that (mostly American) scientists created.
I'm dowloaded IE7. Had some trouble connected, but what the heck (I use FF anyway). Started it up, whadjathink? No menubar. Activated menubar. but it's under the navigation bar. I don't want that! Unlocked the toolbars, but can't move location bar. Menu bar can but can't be dragged above location bar. Can't be floated either (Which is a good thing, I think...
Ok. Never mind. Tried to put buttons under navigation bar, not at the botomright position. But I can only move them horizontally, although the mouse cursor indicates all 4 directions including up and down!
I would like a website that is made specifically for PhD's and higher for the following reason: - The job descriptors are extremely poor for scientists. The fact that you place a physical chemist in "Chemistry (general)" is ok, but in most places this option isn't even there. I'm forced to use "R&D specialist" - In a related point, science jobs are very specific. You need a classification on research interest, not preferred industry. If I was looking a physical chemist I don't want an engineer in Unilever (Although there both listed as Chemists) - Searching for jobs in a specific location is silly. As a scientist your stomping ground is the world (you'd be unemployed if you didn't). Position on Antarctica? Why not?
As a result, I have been enlisted for three years in several of these sites and haven't received a single hit.
As far as I can remember (i.e. from version 7.0) my suse distro already had a version of arcoread. Was that one of the unfree versions or was it just a wine-ed version? ?-)
I just had a brainwave. It may look a bit silly, but it might work.
Writing explanantions don't work - people don't like to read. So why don't you add a cartoon
Phishing: A sinister person is holding a fishing rod over a fence. Beond the fence there is an obvious dummy (filled with straw) marked "BANK" holding a bank form (also attached to the fishing line) with two fields: NAME and BANK NUMBER. A sweet nice person unwittingly fills in the form.
Keylogger: A siniter person looking over your shoulder as you type the password (you know because it sais ENTER PASSWORD on the monitor)
This idea isn't particularly new. There are several prototype cars which run on liquidnitrogen.
P.S. The speeds mentioned in the post are probably switched. The car switches to an electric motor when its speed reaches 32-40 km/h (20-25 mi/h).
But I guess you figured that one out already...;-)
I have some very bad experiences with the Linuxant drivers on my Suse 9.0 box. After I double-checked I installed the correct module with respect to the kernel version, it just kept crashing (like 100% lock-up) the PC when I had the connection open. Next I got myself a software modem (which was cheaper that the Connexant-based one!), which had full Linux support and have been a happy camper since.
By the way, just from a equality point of view, I bought the thing for EUR 15,- and pay nothing to use it in Winblows. But when I want to use it in Linux the price doubles (USD 14,-; ok, nearly doubles). Somehow that seems offly wrong. Of course they sell it, they make the rules.
If the uses of firefox increases, shouldn't we think about makeing this broser more appealing for "the masses"? In other words how do we make a better browsing experience for everybody? (I mean: How do we have Firefox protect John Doe from doing dumb things on the internet?)
I was thinking about the following: Every time the is a security warning, such as "Do you want to install this programme?" or "Do you want this java applet complete access to your hard disk?", shouldn't there also be a button marked "I have no idea what this means" and make it the default button. This button has obviously the same function as cancel.
I've been glansing through the book. Although most things are laughingly dated, I find it disturbing how some things really didn't change that much. For instance, people still think that computers can think for themselves.
I downloaded and run a firefox PR1 release on October 5th. (Check filedate, yes October 5th) Was that a rebranded 0.9.4 or has the the website been update only recently?
(Or am I going mad?)
P.S. RSS still needs work, but looks like it's going to kick @$$!
Slashdot Mirror
Nice to see Microsoft is using open source games to show the capabilities of their system. It's a bit disappointing to see that they misspelled SuperTuxCart (sic) in the YouTube video.
It's not in the speed you drive, it's in the way you drive. It's in little things like:
- Don't rev the engine above 2500 rpm, change gears faster.
- When a traffic light ahead is red, take your foot from the accelerator. Modern engines use no (that's right: NO) fuel on engine braking.
- Anticipate to the traffic ahead, e.g. give room for somebody so you can slide into his spot.
- Don't start the engine until you are ready to set off.
And this will absolutely NOT make you drive any slower, but I've seen tests where they showed you could save somewhere in the range of 6 to 15% fuel.
Here's a nice link to a Dutch programme called "the new drive":
http://www.hetnieuwerijden.nl/english.html
I don't know why these people take so long to make their standards (or "standards") into one unified format. I did it in 2 minutes. Here it is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gandunifieddocumentformat xmlns="...">
<ODF>
<!-- ODF stuff -->
</ODF>
<OOXML>
<!-- OOXML stuff -->
</OOXML>
<UOF>
<!-- UOF stuff -->
</UOF>
</gandunifieddocumentformat>
DONE!!!
I guess removing the oxygen from air is a very energy inefficient method. I've got an environmentally better solution:
Why, in stead of nitrogen enriched air, use carbondioxyde (CO2) gas? CO2 is not flammable and doesn't attack the hardware and reduces fire hazard just like nitorgen gas (N2).
Get a server plant a power station (preferably running on natural gas) and a house. Power plant feeds energy to server plant and house. Power plant feeds produced CO2 to server plant. Coolant is first fed to servers and then to power plant. Afterwards used to heat house. There simply is no added energy required.
Get a greenhouse, feed it with CO2 from power plant to make food for the house and presto!
____
Some of my entries might have been filed under "B" for bad ideas, I have no idea why.
I wonder how much science is hurt by the stricted immigration laws in America after 9/11?
And I am certain the new immegration laws does hurt US science, RIGHT NOW. I know of one bright scientific mind at my university here in Europe whom American Universities wanted badly, but still struggled to get through the immegration proces and getting a visa. The amount of burocracy was frankly staggering and only due to the Universities help (the American one) he succeded after 4 months to get a visa. And I know a lot mor ewho did not go the America just because they had to fact this monster more or less alone.
Do you think this linux revival in American schools has all to do with the funding (and lack thereof)? Because linux gives two advantages: Using old hardware longer and use cheaper (note: I'm not saying free) software. I don't see any other advantages.
----
How do you switch to linux? Simple: Start simple. Use it for word processing and surfing. Work from there to some more unfamiliar ground.
Well, this election in the Netherlands some people concerned with the abovementioned effect (viz. a newspaper and a university) have created http://www4.kieskompas.nl/a competing site(unfortunately no english verions available) which wanted to provide a more graduated result. Hell, there was even http://www.partijwijzer.nl/a similar website(currently offline for obvious reasons, i.e. elections are over) aimed at younger (age < 30) voters.
As long as there are more than one what-should-I-vote websites and most people visit several, I don't see the problem.
Why on earth would you need to choose?
I was on a (admittedly Dutch) Cathlic highschool. But they taught safe sex, Darwinism (Intelligent Design wasn't a big thing back then), Science, but also the beliefs of Catholism, Jemism, Islamism, Hindoism (sp?).
The job of a school is to educate, not to select. An educated child makes wise decisions, which in turn make them better adults.
I thought that people investigated BECAUSE the body responded diffentently on nanotechnological materials. And also BECAUSE materials combined and shaped in unusual ways got unusual results.
P.S. The nanotechnology hype is over. It has been for some time now. All nanotech products I've seen so far is an anti-fog, anti-rain spray for your cars widscreen. Just like the dot-com bubble it didn't live up to the high expectations that (mostly American) scientists created.
I'm dowloaded IE7. Had some trouble connected, but what the heck (I use FF anyway). Started it up, whadjathink? No menubar. Activated menubar. but it's under the navigation bar. I don't want that! Unlocked the toolbars, but can't move location bar. Menu bar can but can't be dragged above location bar. Can't be floated either (Which is a good thing, I think...
:)
Ok. Never mind. Tried to put buttons under navigation bar, not at the botomright position. But I can only move them horizontally, although the mouse cursor indicates all 4 directions including up and down!
AAAARRRRGGG!!! Help me, please!
Hmm. I think the title should read: "Microsoft tax now also applies to China"
The fact that the Microsoft tax exists comes down to the companies fearing liability and consumers don't caring.
I would like a website that is made specifically for PhD's and higher for the following reason:
- The job descriptors are extremely poor for scientists. The fact that you place a physical chemist in "Chemistry (general)" is ok, but in most places this option isn't even there. I'm forced to use "R&D specialist"
- In a related point, science jobs are very specific. You need a classification on research interest, not preferred industry. If I was looking a physical chemist I don't want an engineer in Unilever (Although there both listed as Chemists)
- Searching for jobs in a specific location is silly. As a scientist your stomping ground is the world (you'd be unemployed if you didn't). Position on Antarctica? Why not?
As a result, I have been enlisted for three years in several of these sites and haven't received a single hit.
The Firemonger project is also boasting a lot of new features when it releases its FireFox & Thunderbird bundle. Just have a look at the cool new screenshots.
As far as I can remember (i.e. from version 7.0) my suse distro already had a version of arcoread. Was that one of the unfree versions or was it just a wine-ed version? ?-)
I just had a brainwave. It may look a bit silly, but it might work.
Writing explanantions don't work - people don't like to read. So why don't you add a cartoon
Phishing: A sinister person is holding a fishing rod over a fence. Beond the fence there is an obvious dummy (filled with straw) marked "BANK" holding a bank form (also attached to the fishing line) with two fields: NAME and BANK NUMBER. A sweet nice person unwittingly fills in the form.
Keylogger: A siniter person looking over your shoulder as you type the password (you know because it sais ENTER PASSWORD on the monitor)
Whaddjoutink?
P.S. The speeds mentioned in the post are probably switched. ;-)
The car switches to an electric motor when its speed reaches 32-40 km/h (20-25 mi/h).
But I guess you figured that one out already...
...And the site is slashdotted again. What we really need is a slashtdot webpage caching service, a la google.
I have some very bad experiences with the Linuxant drivers on my Suse 9.0 box. After I double-checked I installed the correct module with respect to the kernel version, it just kept crashing (like 100% lock-up) the PC when I had the connection open. Next I got myself a software modem (which was cheaper that the Connexant-based one!), which had full Linux support and have been a happy camper since.
By the way, just from a equality point of view, I bought the thing for EUR 15,- and pay nothing to use it in Winblows. But when I want to use it in Linux the price doubles (USD 14,-; ok, nearly doubles). Somehow that seems offly wrong.
Of course they sell it, they make the rules.
I was thinking about the following: Every time the is a security warning, such as "Do you want to install this programme?" or "Do you want this java applet complete access to your hard disk?", shouldn't there also be a button marked "I have no idea what this means" and make it the default button. This button has obviously the same function as cancel.
Human-yfied computer terms, Now that's the way to a non-nerd heart!
I've been glansing through the book. Although most things are laughingly dated, I find it disturbing how some things really didn't change that much. For instance, people still think that computers can think for themselves.
Enybody feeling the same thing?
Thanks, because the mozilla.org website is slowly going bye-bye.
That's the punishment for makeing the best browser in the world!
I downloaded and run a firefox PR1 release on October 5th. (Check filedate, yes October 5th) Was that a rebranded 0.9.4 or has the the website been update only recently?
(Or am I going mad?)
P.S. RSS still needs work, but looks like it's going to kick @$$!
f(x) = exp(-(x-mu)^2/(2*sigma^2))/(sigma*sqrt(2*pi))
No matter how much we try to be individuals, whe allways caught under this bell-shaped curve...
Whoever said philosophy and formula's don't mix?
And I thought the Government offered free fake drugs in their war on drugs campain. ?-(
Beware, They are amongst us!!!