I remember previous/. discussions in which suggesting DC in the datacenter got me accused of crackpottery.
It also wasn't so long ago that Linux and OSS were viewed as crackpot ideas. Today I was interviewed for two jobs: one as a SuSE Linux Administrator, and the other as a Solaris Admin. They offered identical salaries.
* Processor: Intelâ"Pentium 1-4 or Xeon; AMDâ"Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP, Athlon 64, Sempron or Opteron
* Main memory: At least 256 MB; 512 MB recommended
* Hard disk: At least 500 MB for minimal system; 3 GB recommended for standard system
* Sound and graphics cards: Supports most modern sound and graphics cards
The KDE 3.x series has benefited from a lot of improvements in speed and memory usage. I would expect 256 MB to get you a barely-functional desktop that swaps every time you open Firefox or OpenOffice.org, and 512 MB would run a few basic business apps without problems.
A Linux driver for the Broadcom bcm43xx wireless chips. Broadcom never released details about these chips. So this driver is based upon reverse engineered specifications.
The same applies to ATI, which only recently began releasing full specs and developing Linux support for newer chipsets.
HP has definitely not "always supported open source". And they have in the past announced similar small-business-focused marketing initiatives for Linux that turned out to be half-hearted.
The starting friction on your gearbox makes it impossible to use on small scale windmills in low winds. The 10% thermal losses it generates, along with the energy required to switch gears, makes it less efficient. Finally, the cost of machining custom gearboxes for various sizes of wind generators in various wind conditions makes it a completely impractical alternative.
Wind speeds differ. Blades that will start in low winds will not go fast in high winds. Coils that will produce lots of power in high winds will not start in low winds.
Blades and coils do not change after they have been manufactured. Normally.
You need a transmission because the curve resulting from the combination of blade resistance, coil resistance, and frictional losses does not match the curve of wind power and speed.
I'd like to see the patent for this (if one even exists), because I have a design sitting on my hard drive from over three years ago for this exact concept.
Actually, the design as stated in the article and summary sounds less efficient than switching coil arrangements. This "breakthrough" just switches coils on and off.
For advocating an open border. If the American civil liberties union spent their time defending the liberties of Americans instead of illegal immigrants, there would not be an excuse to extend border enforcement halfway into neighboring states.
That anyone in IT gets laid off during economic downturn just goes to show how fundamentally broken the IT industry in the US really is.
Information technology is a radically efficient time and labor saving device.
Yet instead of being used to automate and streamline the millions of worthless repetitive shite jobs in the information economy, IT is most often used to automate and streamline the jobs of IT workers themselves.
Instead of finding out what Suzy the secretary or Tim the accountant actually do all day (besides surfing the net), and using information technology to do their jobs more efficiently or to make them obsolete, Ishmael the IT guy instead sits in his cubicle working on outsourcing his own job to people and companies who quite frankly can't do it nearly as well as he could.
It's a fundamentally broken industry. And the reason it's broken has more to do with the current economic downturn than anyone will admit.
The Federal Reserve, the captain of the US economy, has a legal mandate to maintain "maximum employment". This does not mean maximum productivity. It doesn't mean maximum economic output. It means that one of the (three?) guiding principles of the institution that sets interest rates and prints money is to have the most number of asses* sitting in the most number of chairs every day from 9-5.
For this reason, the market leaders in any software category (Windows and it's ilk) are specifically designed around the average person, sitting in front of a computer and clicking on things, providing input, and guiding information processing. What this fails to account for is that the average person is a complete idiot, that driving the average person to work every day in order to sit in front of a computer is a waste of resources, and that (for the most part) using people for information processing just adds errors and complexity with no actual gain in either accuracy or efficiency.
So what we end up with is the few productive members of society, continuously bailing out the 90% of Americans whose jobs constitute little more than Fed-sponsored baby-sitting exercises, through a ridiculously "progressive" tax scheme and (when that isn't enough) direct bail-outs to the bankers whose misguided economic theories distort and pervert the prosperity offered by a truly free-market bolstered by a representative government.
Wash, rinse, repeat in almost any other industry and you will see the same pattern. Productive, revolutionary, labor-saving technologies are eschewed in favor of the latest ergonomic widget that will increase workers' output another 5%, "grow" the company and bring in more investment from the intellectually (and now factually) bankrupt morons at the Fed.
The information economy, nay the entire concept of economic prosperity itself, is simply no longer compatible with the depression-era ideal of full employment.
There is a utility called fetchexc that will fetch incoming mail from Exchange 2000/2003 OWA servers. It would need some updating to work with 2007, though.
It's great that mainstream retailers such as Amazon are now offering popular music in MP3 format. In the last six years, I have purchased a grand total of about three CDs. I have never purchased music online before today. But in light of this sea change in ditching DRM, today I purchased a single from Amazon.
I was surprised to find that the MP3 Downloader program was offered for Windows, OSX, and Linux versions for Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, and Debian. It was optional, so I didn't even use it.
The entire process took 20 seconds. The selections were not limited to independent/foreign bands that I've never heard of. The single was $0.89. Watch out, iTunes.
How many animals use photosynthesis to get the energy to move around?
Ultimately, all of them.
What is the ratio of plants / animals in the world?
It is extremely high, necessarily.
Compact energy sources are finite and have quite significant impact on our surroundings. In order to move the most amount of stuff possible, humans must learn to disintermediate plants.
I suppose you could be right as long as you redefine "free will" as "the illusion of free will".
But determinism absolutely precludes true free will. This is so patently obvious that I'm always shocked to see people like yourself attempting to argue against it.
Words have meanings. So unless you live in a world where "logical consistency" is an illusion as well, please don't redefine terms in order to support your preconceived notions.
I wonder what the prevalence of this disorder is in males/females. There is a lot of talk (and some action) of separating girls from boys in schools because they supposedly "learn differently".
I don't know about the rest of slashdot, but I would've hated to have been in a male-only school. If one can make any argument at all, it is for segregating schoolchildren based on ability, not arbitrary factors such as race, sex, or even religion.
Changing the transportation infrastructure to a fuel already in high demand at power plants is dumber than dumb.
Natural gas may be in high demand, but electrical generators can only afford it during peak hours. New pricing laws, subsidies and technological improvements are slowly introducing solar as a viable alternative.
Transport fuels, even CNG, will always demand a premium over electricity due to their relative energy density, ease of transport, and compatibility with existing vehicles in comparison. You can economically run almost any car on natural gas. You yet can't economically run any car on electricity.
Just this weekend I was trying to think of a comedian that didn't suck. I happened to be surrounded by billboards of sucky comedians all last week, and something was nagging in the back of my mind. I was trying my hardest to remind myself that there was actually a time when some comedians didn't suck.
Maybe it was the fact that I was in Sin City or perhaps something random happened to remind me of George Carlin, because I thought to myself "Goddammit, not only did he not suck, but that crotchety old bastard changed the fucking world."
He actually changed the world we live in by pointing out obvious truths and cursing about it.
And it made me sad to think of how thoughtless the rest of humanity is that no one did it before him, and that no one has done it as well since.
But it makes me glad to know that George's spirit is alive and well on one of the few sites left on the internet where you won't get banned for typing something offensive.
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Masturbation *is* sexual conservatism. It doesn't take a billion Chinese to figure this out.
I remember previous /. discussions in which suggesting DC in the datacenter got me accused of crackpottery.
It also wasn't so long ago that Linux and OSS were viewed as crackpot ideas. Today I was interviewed for two jobs: one as a SuSE Linux Administrator, and the other as a Solaris Admin. They offered identical salaries.
So what is the going rate for a zombie?
The article says that the total cost is $3 million, and that the total capacity is seven megawatt-hours. It also says they got a $1 million grant.
http://www.novell.com/products/opensuse/sysreqs.html
* Processor: Intelâ"Pentium 1-4 or Xeon; AMDâ"Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP, Athlon 64, Sempron or Opteron
* Main memory: At least 256 MB; 512 MB recommended
* Hard disk: At least 500 MB for minimal system; 3 GB recommended for standard system
* Sound and graphics cards: Supports most modern sound and graphics cards
The KDE 3.x series has benefited from a lot of improvements in speed and memory usage. I would expect 256 MB to get you a barely-functional desktop that swaps every time you open Firefox or OpenOffice.org, and 512 MB would run a few basic business apps without problems.
I would simply mod you down, but someone might get the impression that you have made a valid point.
According to http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/
A Linux driver for the Broadcom bcm43xx wireless chips.
Broadcom never released details about these chips. So this driver is based upon reverse engineered specifications.
The same applies to ATI, which only recently began releasing full specs and developing Linux support for newer chipsets.
HP has definitely not "always supported open source". And they have in the past announced similar small-business-focused marketing initiatives for Linux that turned out to be half-hearted.
The starting friction on your gearbox makes it impossible to use on small scale windmills in low winds. The 10% thermal losses it generates, along with the energy required to switch gears, makes it less efficient. Finally, the cost of machining custom gearboxes for various sizes of wind generators in various wind conditions makes it a completely impractical alternative.
Wind speeds differ. Blades that will start in low winds will not go fast in high winds. Coils that will produce lots of power in high winds will not start in low winds.
Blades and coils do not change after they have been manufactured. Normally.
Silicon is more expensive than mechanical relays.
You need a transmission because the curve resulting from the combination of blade resistance, coil resistance, and frictional losses does not match the curve of wind power and speed.
I'd like to see the patent for this (if one even exists), because I have a design sitting on my hard drive from over three years ago for this exact concept.
Actually, the design as stated in the article and summary sounds less efficient than switching coil arrangements. This "breakthrough" just switches coils on and off.
1. Start company
2. Spend lots of money
3. ???
Though, seriously, I shouldn't criticize. We would all be better off if the third thing in Bill's next company weren't 'profit'.
For advocating an open border. If the American civil liberties union spent their time defending the liberties of Americans instead of illegal immigrants, there would not be an excuse to extend border enforcement halfway into neighboring states.
That anyone in IT gets laid off during economic downturn just goes to show how fundamentally broken the IT industry in the US really is.
Information technology is a radically efficient time and labor saving device.
Yet instead of being used to automate and streamline the millions of worthless repetitive shite jobs in the information economy, IT is most often used to automate and streamline the jobs of IT workers themselves.
Instead of finding out what Suzy the secretary or Tim the accountant actually do all day (besides surfing the net), and using information technology to do their jobs more efficiently or to make them obsolete, Ishmael the IT guy instead sits in his cubicle working on outsourcing his own job to people and companies who quite frankly can't do it nearly as well as he could.
It's a fundamentally broken industry. And the reason it's broken has more to do with the current economic downturn than anyone will admit.
The Federal Reserve, the captain of the US economy, has a legal mandate to maintain "maximum employment". This does not mean maximum productivity. It doesn't mean maximum economic output. It means that one of the (three?) guiding principles of the institution that sets interest rates and prints money is to have the most number of asses* sitting in the most number of chairs every day from 9-5.
For this reason, the market leaders in any software category (Windows and it's ilk) are specifically designed around the average person, sitting in front of a computer and clicking on things, providing input, and guiding information processing. What this fails to account for is that the average person is a complete idiot, that driving the average person to work every day in order to sit in front of a computer is a waste of resources, and that (for the most part) using people for information processing just adds errors and complexity with no actual gain in either accuracy or efficiency.
So what we end up with is the few productive members of society, continuously bailing out the 90% of Americans whose jobs constitute little more than Fed-sponsored baby-sitting exercises, through a ridiculously "progressive" tax scheme and (when that isn't enough) direct bail-outs to the bankers whose misguided economic theories distort and pervert the prosperity offered by a truly free-market bolstered by a representative government.
Wash, rinse, repeat in almost any other industry and you will see the same pattern. Productive, revolutionary, labor-saving technologies are eschewed in favor of the latest ergonomic widget that will increase workers' output another 5%, "grow" the company and bring in more investment from the intellectually (and now factually) bankrupt morons at the Fed.
The information economy, nay the entire concept of economic prosperity itself, is simply no longer compatible with the depression-era ideal of full employment.
*not necessarily Americans' asses
There is a utility called fetchexc that will fetch incoming mail from Exchange 2000/2003 OWA servers. It would need some updating to work with 2007, though.
http://www.saunalahti.fi/juhrauti/index.html
It's great that mainstream retailers such as Amazon are now offering popular music in MP3 format. In the last six years, I have purchased a grand total of about three CDs. I have never purchased music online before today. But in light of this sea change in ditching DRM, today I purchased a single from Amazon.
I was surprised to find that the MP3 Downloader program was offered for Windows, OSX, and Linux versions for Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, and Debian. It was optional, so I didn't even use it.
The entire process took 20 seconds. The selections were not limited to independent/foreign bands that I've never heard of. The single was $0.89. Watch out, iTunes.
How many animals use photosynthesis to get the energy to move around?
Ultimately, all of them.
What is the ratio of plants / animals in the world?
It is extremely high, necessarily.
Compact energy sources are finite and have quite significant impact on our surroundings. In order to move the most amount of stuff possible, humans must learn to disintermediate plants.
The terrorists hate our free will. We must get them.
Messy chemicals... in plants? Like the ones you eat?
I suppose you could be right as long as you redefine "free will" as "the illusion of free will".
But determinism absolutely precludes true free will. This is so patently obvious that I'm always shocked to see people like yourself attempting to argue against it.
Words have meanings. So unless you live in a world where "logical consistency" is an illusion as well, please don't redefine terms in order to support your preconceived notions.
Random. Free Will, Act of God. in essence they are all the same.
In many religions, God is quite deterministic. And in some, Free Will is the characteristic which distinguishes Humans from God's mindless automatons.
I wonder what the prevalence of this disorder is in males/females. There is a lot of talk (and some action) of separating girls from boys in schools because they supposedly "learn differently".
I don't know about the rest of slashdot, but I would've hated to have been in a male-only school. If one can make any argument at all, it is for segregating schoolchildren based on ability, not arbitrary factors such as race, sex, or even religion.
Changing the transportation infrastructure to a fuel already in high demand at power plants is dumber than dumb.
Natural gas may be in high demand, but electrical generators can only afford it during peak hours. New pricing laws, subsidies and technological improvements are slowly introducing solar as a viable alternative.
Transport fuels, even CNG, will always demand a premium over electricity due to their relative energy density, ease of transport, and compatibility with existing vehicles in comparison. You can economically run almost any car on natural gas. You yet can't economically run any car on electricity.
America has 1.3 acres of arable land per person.
Somalia has 0.25.
Just this weekend I was trying to think of a comedian that didn't suck. I happened to be surrounded by billboards of sucky comedians all last week, and something was nagging in the back of my mind. I was trying my hardest to remind myself that there was actually a time when some comedians didn't suck.
Maybe it was the fact that I was in Sin City or perhaps something random happened to remind me of George Carlin, because I thought to myself "Goddammit, not only did he not suck, but that crotchety old bastard changed the fucking world."
He actually changed the world we live in by pointing out obvious truths and cursing about it.
And it made me sad to think of how thoughtless the rest of humanity is that no one did it before him, and that no one has done it as well since.
But it makes me glad to know that George's spirit is alive and well on one of the few sites left on the internet where you won't get banned for typing something offensive.