Hmm...the manual for my wife's new diesel Jetta says we shouldn't use any diesel mixture that contains more than 5% biodiesel but doesn't explain why. Is that the explanation?
How difficult is it to add a fuel line heater should we ever decide we want to be able to consume higher concentrations of biodiesel?
Commuter cars and scooters that can't reach expressway speeds are only an option for some people.
BTW, the Smart Car that's available here in the states reportedly gets fewer miles per gallon than my Honda Civic. So unless the Smart car you're referring to is something different, you might want to check your numbers.
If we come up with economical processes for turning plant matter into fuel, then we could farm the ocean or build vats in the desert and have ZERO impact on food producing land.
To argue that biofuel production necessarily reduces our food production capacity is a fallacy.
Low self discharge NiMh cells are supposed to keep 80% of their charge for a whole year. They're also more robust cells than the higher capacity NiMh cells, so they'll keep their capacity longer and provide a better band for your buck in the long run.
That's not strictly true. Lithium Ion cells lose capacity with age regardless of whether they're being used or not. How fast a cell degrades with age depends on its charge level and temperature.
So the total capacity reduction of the cell is a combination of wear and tear from cycling it and its age.
focus-follows-mouse is wonderful, especially if paired with raise-window-on-click. Window managers that require the focused window to be on top are extremely frustrating to use.
SARS is claimed as being a case where things in the lab screwed up and someone become infected. Swine Flu was also apparently mishandled, the virus being recreated from a previous similar outbreak decades ago.
No, that's exactly wrong. The more mainstream netbooks become, the broader the netbook market becomes. Even if ARM's market share doesn't increase, if the market as a whole increases, ARM comes out ahead.
Basically, as long as there are people who value battery life over running windows apps, ARM stands to gain from an increased netbook market. It remains to be seen if Intel can really compete with ARM in terms of performance per watt.
Medicine: doctors already use laptops for exactly this. Doctors also do lots of data entry (note, scheduling tests, writing prescriptions, etc), so the ability to use a keyboard is required.
Manufacturing: to be useful on the manufacturing floor or shipping dock, it absolutely must have a camera/barcode scanner.
I'm sure there are uses for the iPad, but I doubt that it's well suited for either of the above domains.
The effect of this decision is that every official in the national government will have to publish official documents in ODF. I don't think this decision has any directives about the formats that the government officials can receive.
The obvious ripple effect of this decision is that everyone who consumes official documents will require software that can render an ODF document (and there are lots, so this will be easy). Since most software that can render ODF documents can also create ODF documents, it seems likely that the ability to create ODF documents will become ubiquitous among those who interact with the government.
It remains to be seen whether or not that will reduce the number of documents received by the government in non-ODF formats, but it certainly is possible since there must be some overlap between people who consume government documents and people who provide documents to the government.
As an open standards supporter, what excites me the most about this news is that the Danish government now has a vested interest in preserving the integrity of and perhaps even improving the ODF format. Vendors such as Microsoft will be less able to "get by" with substandard support for the format which, in turn, improves the experience of everyone using ODF.
The 18650 cell is pretty awesome. I've got some cells I salvaged from an old laptop battery pack. One cell will last for more than a month of regular flashlight usage before requiring a recharge (regular usage is roughly 30 minutes of Low and less than 5 minutes of Medium or High every day).
If you're seeing similar memory consumption for both FF and Chrome, perhaps you should consider that this isn't the fault of any memory leak, but rather the result of your surfing habits.
Every time there's a firefox story on slashdot, I see posts complaining about memory leaks in firefox. I have yet to actually see a post that makes an even remotely convincing argument that what they're seeing is the result of a memory leak.
Previous post seems to indicate that this patent application was filed in 2004, before Hadoop was created. If true, and if Google decides to use this patent against Hadoop, and if the patent withstands the scrutiny of a court battle, then Hadoop, at least as Open Source, would be dead.
Don't jump to conclusions yet, however. It'll take some time to digest the patent and decide what it's really attempting to cover.
But sadly, Firefox is not necessary in order for me to use those extensions any more.
Sadly? Why "Sadly"? This is a good thing! It means we have competition in the browser market. It might be financially bad for firefox, but it's definitely good for consumers.
Firefox reinvigorated the browser market. We're all better off because of firefox. But if a time comes when firefox can no longer compete, then it will decline and we'll all switch to whatever browser is the most compelling.
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Doesn't that require a source of hydrogen?
Cracking water or natural gas to get the required hydrogen will reduce the end-to-end efficiency.
Hmm...the manual for my wife's new diesel Jetta says we shouldn't use any diesel mixture that contains more than 5% biodiesel but doesn't explain why. Is that the explanation?
How difficult is it to add a fuel line heater should we ever decide we want to be able to consume higher concentrations of biodiesel?
Commuter cars and scooters that can't reach expressway speeds are only an option for some people.
BTW, the Smart Car that's available here in the states reportedly gets fewer miles per gallon than my Honda Civic. So unless the Smart car you're referring to is something different, you might want to check your numbers.
If we come up with economical processes for turning plant matter into fuel, then we could farm the ocean or build vats in the desert and have ZERO impact on food producing land.
To argue that biofuel production necessarily reduces our food production capacity is a fallacy.
Most depressing thing I've read in a while...
I don't think that posting anonymously undoes your moderation...
They're using NiMh cells with 1.2v nominal voltage.
8 * 1.2v = 9.6v
Low self discharge NiMh cells are supposed to keep 80% of their charge for a whole year. They're also more robust cells than the higher capacity NiMh cells, so they'll keep their capacity longer and provide a better band for your buck in the long run.
That's not strictly true. Lithium Ion cells lose capacity with age regardless of whether they're being used or not. How fast a cell degrades with age depends on its charge level and temperature.
So the total capacity reduction of the cell is a combination of wear and tear from cycling it and its age.
focus-follows-mouse is wonderful, especially if paired with raise-window-on-click. Window managers that require the focused window to be on top are extremely frustrating to use.
I love my fvwm!
SARS is claimed as being a case where things in the lab screwed up and someone become infected.
Swine Flu was also apparently mishandled, the virus being recreated from a previous similar outbreak decades ago.
You got any evidence for either of those?
Aren't you required to search for prior art and document it as part of the patent process?
No, that's exactly wrong. The more mainstream netbooks become, the broader the netbook market becomes. Even if ARM's market share doesn't increase, if the market as a whole increases, ARM comes out ahead.
Basically, as long as there are people who value battery life over running windows apps, ARM stands to gain from an increased netbook market. It remains to be seen if Intel can really compete with ARM in terms of performance per watt.
Hmm...
Medicine: doctors already use laptops for exactly this. Doctors also do lots of data entry (note, scheduling tests, writing prescriptions, etc), so the ability to use a keyboard is required.
Manufacturing: to be useful on the manufacturing floor or shipping dock, it absolutely must have a camera/barcode scanner.
I'm sure there are uses for the iPad, but I doubt that it's well suited for either of the above domains.
The effect of this decision is that every official in the national government will have to publish official documents in ODF. I don't think this decision has any directives about the formats that the government officials can receive.
The obvious ripple effect of this decision is that everyone who consumes official documents will require software that can render an ODF document (and there are lots, so this will be easy). Since most software that can render ODF documents can also create ODF documents, it seems likely that the ability to create ODF documents will become ubiquitous among those who interact with the government.
It remains to be seen whether or not that will reduce the number of documents received by the government in non-ODF formats, but it certainly is possible since there must be some overlap between people who consume government documents and people who provide documents to the government.
As an open standards supporter, what excites me the most about this news is that the Danish government now has a vested interest in preserving the integrity of and perhaps even improving the ODF format. Vendors such as Microsoft will be less able to "get by" with substandard support for the format which, in turn, improves the experience of everyone using ODF.
I took CPR training from the Red Cross 2 years ago. The training included both mouth-to-mouth and chest compressions.
I would expect the Red Cross training to be pretty typical.
You can, but you'll find it doesn't scale as well with solids (like bricks) as it does with fluids (like water).
The 18650 cell is pretty awesome. I've got some cells I salvaged from an old laptop battery pack. One cell will last for more than a month of regular flashlight usage before requiring a recharge (regular usage is roughly 30 minutes of Low and less than 5 minutes of Medium or High every day).
I've been getting that behavior from tab mix plus for several years.
Perhaps I no longer need that extension.
If you're seeing similar memory consumption for both FF and Chrome, perhaps you should consider that this isn't the fault of any memory leak, but rather the result of your surfing habits.
Every time there's a firefox story on slashdot, I see posts complaining about memory leaks in firefox. I have yet to actually see a post that makes an even remotely convincing argument that what they're seeing is the result of a memory leak.
As long as US dollars are the only currency I can pay my taxes in, US dollars will never be worthless.
Previous post seems to indicate that this patent application was filed in 2004, before Hadoop was created. If true, and if Google decides to use this patent against Hadoop, and if the patent withstands the scrutiny of a court battle, then Hadoop, at least as Open Source, would be dead.
Don't jump to conclusions yet, however. It'll take some time to digest the patent and decide what it's really attempting to cover.
How does one lobby the Supreme Court?
But sadly, Firefox is not necessary in order for me to use those extensions any more.
Sadly? Why "Sadly"? This is a good thing! It means we have competition in the browser market. It might be financially bad for firefox, but it's definitely good for consumers.
Firefox reinvigorated the browser market. We're all better off because of firefox. But if a time comes when firefox can no longer compete, then it will decline and we'll all switch to whatever browser is the most compelling.
That's how things are supposed to work.
Wow, that's stunningly simple and elegant.
Who would be a good, trusted non-profit to suggest that to? EFF? Apache? Mozilla?