"NREL has patented the DEVap concept, and Kozubal expects that over the next couple of years he will be working on making the device smaller and simpler and perfecting the heat transfer to make DEVap more cost effective.
Eventually, NREL will license the technology to industry, "We're never going to be in the air conditioner manufacturing business", said Ron Judkoff, Principle Program Manager for Building Energy Research at NREL. "But we'd like to work with manufacturers to bring DEVap to market and create a more efficient and environmentally benign air conditioning product." "
Anyone else bothered that a publicly funded organization now owns a patent to this 'new' technology?
Why is it that whenever a topic like this comes up, somebody who is out of spec. posts a comment telling everybody they are in spec?
For one, I AM in XHTML 1.1 spec. and because it can be considered Insightful.
RFC 2854 allows you to transmit XHTML 1.0 documents that follow the compatibility profile described by the XHTML 1.0 specification (Appendix C).
Your pages don't follow that compatibility profile because you include the XML prolog (the
Hmmm... seems you are confused. Check the W3C Conformance guidelines for XHTML 1.1. (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/conformance.html)
It clearly states: Note that in this example, the XML declaration is included. An XML declaration like the one above is not required in all XML documents. XHTML document authors are strongly encouraged to use XML declarations in all their documents. Last time I checked W3C was in charge of standards.
The fact that you are concerned with mobile browsers is amusing, since this mistake actually trips up a couple of mobile browsers (Pocket IE is one, IIRC).
Amusing huh? Right, so everyone should write sloppy unstandardized code that gets dislayed incorrectly or not at all on mobile browsers and/or takes forever to load? Great idea, while I'm at it, I'll stop designing for everyone who isn't running Windows XP and IE 6.0. I mean those users don't care about rendering performance anyhow, right? As for pocket IE, it appears that bug has been fixed. http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2004/0 8/12/213692.aspx
Because sloppy code requires a beefy engine (read: Desktop Browser) to (attempt to)display properly. Now what if you are viewing the page on a PDA, a phone, or some other mobile device with limited hardware specs? Either it doesn't display correctly, or it takes forever to load. XHTML helps solve this problem.
My personal homepage (http://www.dave-dodds.com/ is a good example of a site that is XHTML compliant, but not truly w3C accessibility compliant. note: It is priority 1 compliant).
Also, it seems as if most people get XHTML and CSS confused as one in the same, when in reality they are more like perl/cgi.
budget-friendly? You're kidding me, right? This IS the federal govt. we're talking about?
Anyhow, It always amazes me that there is such a knee-jerk reaction to throw money at education. The best class I ever had in high school was my physics class. It always amazed me how much I learned from building model bridges, catapault(sp?), etc. from toothpicks. We used old polaroid style camera batteries in our electronics labs, used car parts, etc. We compared the accuracy of a stock calorimiter vs. a home made one. I even remember a speak and spell's keyboard and display being used for something.
Part of the fun was just seeing how we could scrap together common items. Would junk yard wars be fun if they weren't using junk? Anyhow, lack of education is a societal problem, not a funding problem.
Wow... I can't beleive I just spent $1,700 on a new machine just to display all this damn darkness. My old video card displayed a screenful of black just fine.
"I expect to hear screams of pain as people deploy SP2 and discover that legacy applications no longer work, but those are probably the same people who complain so loudly (and legitimately) that Microsoft doesn't deploy secure systems."
Here goes my karma, but how true will this statement be here at slashdot?
I personally havn't used web monkey as a development resource since about 1998, because I have found information elsewhere. It seems as if WebMonkey lost it's edge around that time. Has anyone else had the same experience?
Tell her what you think! http://democrats.sen.ca.gov/senator/figuer oa/
I wrote: "Dear Senator Figueroa, Thank you for passing the law regarding gmail. It was nice to see California take the lead role as the laughing stock of the Nation instead of West Virginia."
RTFA - "A native of Washington, Pa.., Hunnell conceived of the idea with some friends one evening while a sophomore at West Virginia Wesleyan College."
Can you explain what you mean by a higher user rate resulting in better results? As far as I know, Google doesn't record the pages you visit after a search, so the amount of users would have no effect upon search results. Correlation does not mean causation.
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FTA:
"NREL has patented the DEVap concept, and Kozubal expects that over the next couple of years he will be working on making the device smaller and simpler and perfecting the heat transfer to make DEVap more cost effective.
Eventually, NREL will license the technology to industry, "We're never going to be in the air conditioner manufacturing business", said Ron Judkoff, Principle Program Manager for Building Energy Research at NREL. "But we'd like to work with manufacturers to bring DEVap to market and create a more efficient and environmentally benign air conditioning product." "
Anyone else bothered that a publicly funded organization now owns a patent to this 'new' technology?
The IT Guy (Jan Fox) is a woman.
http://users.marshall.edu/~fox/
Why is it that whenever a topic like this comes up, somebody who is out of spec. posts a comment telling everybody they are in spec?
0 8/12/213692.aspx
For one, I AM in XHTML 1.1 spec. and because it can be considered Insightful.
RFC 2854 allows you to transmit XHTML 1.0 documents that follow the compatibility profile described by the XHTML 1.0 specification (Appendix C).
Your pages don't follow that compatibility profile because you include the XML prolog (the
Hmmm... seems you are confused. Check the W3C Conformance guidelines for XHTML 1.1. (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/conformance.html)
It clearly states:
Note that in this example, the XML declaration is included. An XML declaration like the one above is not required in all XML documents. XHTML document authors are strongly encouraged to use XML declarations in all their documents.
Last time I checked W3C was in charge of standards.
The fact that you are concerned with mobile browsers is amusing, since this mistake actually trips up a couple of mobile browsers (Pocket IE is one, IIRC).
Amusing huh? Right, so everyone should write sloppy unstandardized code that gets dislayed incorrectly or not at all on mobile browsers and/or takes forever to load? Great idea, while I'm at it, I'll stop designing for everyone who isn't running Windows XP and IE 6.0. I mean those users don't care about rendering performance anyhow, right? As for pocket IE, it appears that bug has been fixed. http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2004/
Because sloppy code requires a beefy engine (read: Desktop Browser) to (attempt to)display properly. Now what if you are viewing the page on a PDA, a phone, or some other mobile device with limited hardware specs? Either it doesn't display correctly, or it takes forever to load. XHTML helps solve this problem.
My personal homepage (http://www.dave-dodds.com/ is a good example of a site that is XHTML compliant, but not truly w3C accessibility compliant. note: It is priority 1 compliant).
Also, it seems as if most people get XHTML and CSS confused as one in the same, when in reality they are more like perl/cgi.
budget-friendly? You're kidding me, right? This IS the federal govt. we're talking about?
Anyhow, It always amazes me that there is such a knee-jerk reaction to throw money at education. The best class I ever had in high school was my physics class. It always amazed me how much I learned from building model bridges, catapault(sp?), etc. from toothpicks. We used old polaroid style camera batteries in our electronics labs, used car parts, etc. We compared the accuracy of a stock calorimiter vs. a home made one. I even remember a speak and spell's keyboard and display being used for something.
Part of the fun was just seeing how we could scrap together common items. Would junk yard wars be fun if they weren't using junk? Anyhow, lack of education is a societal problem, not a funding problem.
It wouldn't be the first college degree mill out there, and it certainly won't be the last.
Yeah, just look at THE Ohio State University!
(disclaimer: I am a Michigan fan, couldn't resist.)
Wow... I can't beleive I just spent $1,700 on a new machine just to display all this damn darkness. My old video card displayed a screenful of black just fine.
Ink on Paper? How messy! -For those of us too lazy to move our hands from the keyboard... customer.service@penguin.co.uk
1.) Have sad story about good'ol Mom.
2.) Write Geekish book and get free PR on slashdot.
3.) ???
4.) Profit!!!
"I expect to hear screams of pain as people deploy SP2 and discover that legacy applications no longer work, but those are probably the same people who complain so loudly (and legitimately) that Microsoft doesn't deploy secure systems."
Here goes my karma, but how true will this statement be here at slashdot?
Honestly, I use google 75% of the time. I also use w3schools, and frequent alistapart, Microsoft,
Builder.com, and my favorite devX.
I personally havn't used web monkey as a development resource since about 1998, because I have found information elsewhere. It seems as if WebMonkey lost it's edge around that time. Has anyone else had the same experience?
Wow and I thought it was easy to slip up and take a close up of a finger or thumb with a regular camera!
George W. Bush sends Chirac an email stating- "I hate the French!"
Don't you mean thank the American tax payer?
I thought Saturn's used plastic body panels and therefore couldn't rust? Oh wait... that's the car company.
Wow inexpensive & reliable... Those are two words you don't see together too often.
Hopefully someone can figure out a way to prevent the system from being abused by spammers before this becomes main stream.
-"So you're into gotse.cx? How about a nice bottle of KY? 50% Discount!"
Tell her what you think!r oa/
http://democrats.sen.ca.gov/senator/figue
I wrote:
"Dear Senator Figueroa,
Thank you for passing the law regarding gmail. It was nice to see California take the lead role as the laughing stock of the Nation instead of West Virginia."
At first I thought this was a sequel to the old "Skate or Die" nintendo game.... I guess in this version the boss would be a pointy haired boss.
RTFA -
"A native of Washington, Pa.., Hunnell conceived of the idea with some friends one evening while a sophomore at West Virginia Wesleyan College."
I can vouch that the students at WV Wesleyan are true drinkers, and this proves it. I spent a few weekends there in a haze. Great academics as well.
That is why i asked it as a question. :) I have done some RTFM, but am willing to admit that he may know more than I do.
Can you explain what you mean by a higher user rate resulting in better results? As far as I know, Google doesn't record the pages you visit after a search, so the amount of users would have no effect upon search results. Correlation does not mean causation.
Come on I am a slashdotter! I peer into librarians bedrooms while they sleep!