The incineration plant was 50 miles from the city that produces the garbage. The idea is to have the plant so close to the city that you can use the heat to heat houses in the winter. Also, the stuff they take in contains all kinds of stuff that doesn't really burn, the article mentions refrigrerators. Around here we recycle all kinds of stuff (and definately refridgerators) so that what is left in the dumpster burns very well.
And finally, saying that solar is cheaper may be true in the summer, but how will you heat houses in the winter with solar? Only run the plant during nights and winter or whatever are the peak hours. Obviously this will probably make the individual kwh:s even more expensive, but peak hour power is much more valuable when other sources are not enough.
It's meant for the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg. A PDF report at http://www.baltice.org/ shows that the thickest ice during 2011-2012 winter was 50cm.
It's true that as Russia is more and more interested in exploiting the arctic sea, they will need bigger things.
Yes, but I'm a little worried that China + India = 2 000 0000 000 people. Japan + South Korea is much less. This time there are more people in the emerging nations than in the developed nations. For the positive end result we in the 1% need to suffer, but in the end survive. If we are wiped out by the competition, the end result may not be as positive.
IMO it would make more sense to use Firefox OS as a runtime on other smart phones. This way you could write a HTML 5 APP and it would work on browsers and in the Firefox OS runtime in any smart phone... sort of like what Java was supposed to be.
Any idea if something like this is actually being done?
Together all these niche phones would have a chance, but if all of them want to have their own app store and walled garden, they will all fail.
Yes, that sounds nice, but it has not been the way Java is developed in years. Java projects use huge amounts of third party libraries all the time. The quality of Java third party libraries from Apache, Google and Spring is really great. IMHO the best thing in Java is that there is a library for everything.
I think this may be quite different from the way.NET applications are developed?
In more recent years some of the libraries have started to "fix" the missing language features in Java. While this is kind of amazing, I think it's the wrong direction. It's better to go to Scala, Clojure or just wait for Java 8.
He attacked your point that it is possible for the parent to be responsible for everything.
In your first post you didn't provide any reasoning for this opinion. It was just your opinion that parents are responsible. It isn't possible to attack an opinion like that with any real argument. Besides, now you are digging up "zero tolerance" as a straw man alternative to "parents are responsible for everything". I bet it must feel good beating that straw man while giving a lecture on logical fallacies.
I've been to Australia and the water in the Pacific is nothing compared to the water in Baltic Sea. It is a green putrid mess compared to the clear ocean water. Baltic Sea has so low salt concentration that all kinds of green stuff and weed live in it really well. All the nitrogen from farm lands also plays in to this.
So, the problems in Australia and Sweden might be quite different.
You honestly think availability of weapon does not matter at all in these killings? That's rich. I guess we should legalize pipe bombs, machine guns and antipersonnel mines, because people wanting to use them, will use them anyway. Now, like, only criminals have them!
It's really not that simple. Some measure of gun control is a good thing.
Somebody has to actually answer the question for there to be good pages for google to find. This sort of thing also ages pretty quickly, so I think it's worth reanswering at least yearly. Finally, this guy seems to want something that will teach him interesting stuff - not just something that has working flash etc.
So I definately think that this is a good question for SlashDot.
And personally I would recommend reinstalling Ubuntu. If you only have an hour of experience with the command line you probably haven't noticed that underneath Ubuntu is just about as "Linux" as any other Linux. Reinstall it and this time create a separate/home partition so that reinstalling the next time will not be painful. And then, learn to program - that's a nice 10 year project.:)
I have no idea of how you guys elect your MEPs, but at least in Finland we have many people from all parties running for the EU parliament. I can vote for any of them. It's true that parties do use the EU parliament as a dumping ground for old politicians, but the lists always contain new names also and I choose who I vote for.
So, maybe you need to vote for some other party or reform the voting in your own country instead?
Others have noted that the patent should expire this year. You mentioned that you are a small software vendor - I understand from that that you have about 20 guys at work. Could you operate without WIFI?
Seriously. Turn the WIFI radios of from all laptops and have cables on all desks and in meeting rooms. It's really not that hard.
I have no idea if that would work legally, but technically it's doable. Then you could reply that you are not using any infringing technology.
Not so fast. That way of measuring productivity is very flawed.
A lawyer billing $500/hour is 50 * as productive as a factory worker?
There are many ways in which US benefits from being the dominant culture on the planet - a german movie just cannot get as many viewers for example. Does that mean that the american movie creating crew is more productive?
Of course the US got the their current enviable position by the talents of americans, but I wouldn't call that productivity... or at least I wouldn't use those numbers to claim that americans are hard workers.
HOWEVER.. the ms outhousing of os development provided them with a public friendly excuse to get rid of their huge, vast developer army - which was too big for their own good and which was really the problem in the first place.
This is so true, except the army wasn't so much developers as it was middle managers. There are so many managers that it's funny and sad at the same time. Yes, there were devs, but a lot more managers who never actually had any useful role in the company.
It's enough to provide good incentive while not removing the need of the winners to ever have to work again!
A theoretical physicist who "never has to work again" can potentially crank out more physics than one who does.
This is exactly what we need: more scientists that are rich enough to study whatever they find interesting and promising instead of only the subject they can get funding for. Some will probably pursue a subject that yields nothing, but still I would trust selecting important study subjects to the winners instead of some grant organization that only wants to pursue the current hot topic.
Just find the best possible people and give them freedom to do whatever they want.
Metacritic is good for avoiding games that are complete crap. Other than that, you really have to read some of the reviews to decide which game you will like more.
I just played The Last Story (metascore 82) after buying it instead of Xenoblade Chronicles (92). After reading some reviews I was sure that I would prefer The Last Story even though Xenoblade has a greater score and the games are in the same genre. Xenoblade is usually praised e.g. for having lots of stuff to do, but I really wanted a game that I can end someday.
So a number does not replace really making an informed decision, duh.
Your situation is probably very common - good luck. Just a f
- It's a real problem if you estimate all the stories/use cases/features. The team is supposed to do that so that they can commit to doing the work in the estimated time. Maybe you should stop doing estimates at all? That would force someone else to do them. - If you're the lead designer (and while scrum does not have that role the team usually has someone the others trust), you are not the scrum master. This is important. Go ahead with the tackling, or better yet, point out that you just cannot be the scrum master. IMHO it's better to make a project manager or junior dev the scrum master. - Do not make estimates in hours or days. Make estimates in points. Pick out some example features and decide that feature X is 5 points and feature Y is 10 points. Then estimate all the other features with points. Now, all your devs are not as productive, but hopefully they can agree that Y = 2 * X in size. After some sprints you will know how many points you get done in a sprint and it will provide you with quite accurate calendar estimates.
So, the short version is: you are not doing agile, but maybe it'll work great for you guys? Good luck.
They learn what they really want when they see the working system that does want the first asked for. If you make them sit in meeting rooms writing power points they will never learn what they really want.
Seriously, just a few months ago I heard of some tiny company that had developed a routing algorithm that figures more efficient routes for delivery trucks. They offer it as SaaS. That way the algorithm is on their servers only.
Germany is the nation with the highest wages in Europe, maybe in the world. You should not be surprised. I would gladly change my finnish pay for $100k a year.
You get a Nobel prize for actions you took during the year prior to getting it. It's not a "life time achievement award". Sadly, they don't come and take it back even if you later start assassinating people with drones.
Here in Europe, you are already "payed for using less electricity" because the carbon market thing has raised your electricity price. Unfortunately, electricity users are all either paying more or at least the same. Carbon neutral electricity producers are the ones making money.
I'm willing to bet the stem cell researcher has used Linux on her research. The myriad things Linux is used for is what makes it so important. The fact that Flash does not work on your computer is just one of the many good things Linux has brought us.
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$99 up front and how much each month? For how long?
From this side of the pond, the U.S. phone market looks really weird. I just bought an N9 for 299€ without any plan. My phone bill is below 20€ / month and obviously, I can change any time. For me the cheapest iPhone would be 519€ - again without a plan... I do have the choice of buying the phone and paying in installments for two years, but why would I want to?
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Wow, they are doing it wrong!
The incineration plant was 50 miles from the city that produces the garbage. The idea is to have the plant so close to the city that you can use the heat to heat houses in the winter. Also, the stuff they take in contains all kinds of stuff that doesn't really burn, the article mentions refrigrerators. Around here we recycle all kinds of stuff (and definately refridgerators) so that what is left in the dumpster burns very well.
And finally, saying that solar is cheaper may be true in the summer, but how will you heat houses in the winter with solar? Only run the plant during nights and winter or whatever are the peak hours. Obviously this will probably make the individual kwh:s even more expensive, but peak hour power is much more valuable when other sources are not enough.
It's meant for the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg. A PDF report at http://www.baltice.org/ shows that the thickest ice during 2011-2012 winter was 50cm.
It's true that as Russia is more and more interested in exploiting the arctic sea, they will need bigger things.
Yes, but I'm a little worried that China + India = 2 000 0000 000 people. Japan + South Korea is much less. This time there are more people in the emerging nations than in the developed nations. For the positive end result we in the 1% need to suffer, but in the end survive. If we are wiped out by the competition, the end result may not be as positive.
IMO it would make more sense to use Firefox OS as a runtime on other smart phones. This way you could write a HTML 5 APP and it would work on browsers and in the Firefox OS runtime in any smart phone... sort of like what Java was supposed to be.
Any idea if something like this is actually being done?
Together all these niche phones would have a chance, but if all of them want to have their own app store and walled garden, they will all fail.
Yes, that sounds nice, but it has not been the way Java is developed in years. Java projects use huge amounts of third party libraries all the time. The quality of Java third party libraries from Apache, Google and Spring is really great. IMHO the best thing in Java is that there is a library for everything.
I think this may be quite different from the way .NET applications are developed?
In more recent years some of the libraries have started to "fix" the missing language features in Java. While this is kind of amazing, I think it's the wrong direction. It's better to go to Scala, Clojure or just wait for Java 8.
He attacked your point that it is possible for the parent to be responsible for everything.
In your first post you didn't provide any reasoning for this opinion. It was just your opinion that parents are responsible. It isn't possible to attack an opinion like that with any real argument. Besides, now you are digging up "zero tolerance" as a straw man alternative to "parents are responsible for everything". I bet it must feel good beating that straw man while giving a lecture on logical fallacies.
I've been to Australia and the water in the Pacific is nothing compared to the water in Baltic Sea. It is a green putrid mess compared to the clear ocean water. Baltic Sea has so low salt concentration that all kinds of green stuff and weed live in it really well. All the nitrogen from farm lands also plays in to this.
So, the problems in Australia and Sweden might be quite different.
You honestly think availability of weapon does not matter at all in these killings? That's rich. I guess we should legalize pipe bombs, machine guns and antipersonnel mines, because people wanting to use them, will use them anyway. Now, like, only criminals have them!
It's really not that simple. Some measure of gun control is a good thing.
Somebody has to actually answer the question for there to be good pages for google to find. This sort of thing also ages pretty quickly, so I think it's worth reanswering at least yearly. Finally, this guy seems to want something that will teach him interesting stuff - not just something that has working flash etc.
So I definately think that this is a good question for SlashDot.
And personally I would recommend reinstalling Ubuntu. If you only have an hour of experience with the command line you probably haven't noticed that underneath Ubuntu is just about as "Linux" as any other Linux. Reinstall it and this time create a separate /home partition so that reinstalling the next time will not be painful. And then, learn to program - that's a nice 10 year project. :)
I have no idea of how you guys elect your MEPs, but at least in Finland we have many people from all parties running for the EU parliament. I can vote for any of them. It's true that parties do use the EU parliament as a dumping ground for old politicians, but the lists always contain new names also and I choose who I vote for.
So, maybe you need to vote for some other party or reform the voting in your own country instead?
Others have noted that the patent should expire this year. You mentioned that you are a small software vendor - I understand from that that you have about 20 guys at work. Could you operate without WIFI?
Seriously. Turn the WIFI radios of from all laptops and have cables on all desks and in meeting rooms. It's really not that hard.
I have no idea if that would work legally, but technically it's doable. Then you could reply that you are not using any infringing technology.
Not so fast. That way of measuring productivity is very flawed.
A lawyer billing $500/hour is 50 * as productive as a factory worker?
There are many ways in which US benefits from being the dominant culture on the planet - a german movie just cannot get as many viewers for example. Does that mean that the american movie creating crew is more productive?
Of course the US got the their current enviable position by the talents of americans, but I wouldn't call that productivity ... or at least I wouldn't use those numbers to claim that americans are hard workers.
IBM vs. SCO?
Btw. I wasn't rooting for Hans Reiser - he looked too guilty from the start.
HOWEVER.. the ms outhousing of os development provided them with a public friendly excuse to get rid of their huge, vast developer army - which was too big for their own good and which was really the problem in the first place.
This is so true, except the army wasn't so much developers as it was middle managers. There are so many managers that it's funny and sad at the same time. Yes, there were devs, but a lot more managers who never actually had any useful role in the company.
A theoretical physicist who "never has to work again" can potentially crank out more physics than one who does.
This is exactly what we need: more scientists that are rich enough to study whatever they find interesting and promising instead of only the subject they can get funding for. Some will probably pursue a subject that yields nothing, but still I would trust selecting important study subjects to the winners instead of some grant organization that only wants to pursue the current hot topic.
Just find the best possible people and give them freedom to do whatever they want.
Metacritic is good for avoiding games that are complete crap. Other than that, you really have to read some of the reviews to decide which game you will like more.
I just played The Last Story (metascore 82) after buying it instead of Xenoblade Chronicles (92). After reading some reviews I was sure that I would prefer The Last Story even though Xenoblade has a greater score and the games are in the same genre. Xenoblade is usually praised e.g. for having lots of stuff to do, but I really wanted a game that I can end someday.
So a number does not replace really making an informed decision, duh.
Your situation is probably very common - good luck. Just a f
- It's a real problem if you estimate all the stories/use cases/features. The team is supposed to do that so that they can commit to doing the work in the estimated time. Maybe you should stop doing estimates at all? That would force someone else to do them.
- If you're the lead designer (and while scrum does not have that role the team usually has someone the others trust), you are not the scrum master. This is important. Go ahead with the tackling, or better yet, point out that you just cannot be the scrum master. IMHO it's better to make a project manager or junior dev the scrum master.
- Do not make estimates in hours or days. Make estimates in points. Pick out some example features and decide that feature X is 5 points and feature Y is 10 points. Then estimate all the other features with points. Now, all your devs are not as productive, but hopefully they can agree that Y = 2 * X in size. After some sprints you will know how many points you get done in a sprint and it will provide you with quite accurate calendar estimates.
So, the short version is: you are not doing agile, but maybe it'll work great for you guys? Good luck.
They learn what they really want when they see the working system that does want the first asked for. If you make them sit in meeting rooms writing power points they will never learn what they really want.
You now are not you five years ago. I think they mean that someone with X years of experience got $Y in 2008 and now they can expect about the same.
Offer the thing as SaaS.
Seriously, just a few months ago I heard of some tiny company that had developed a routing algorithm that figures more efficient routes for delivery trucks. They offer it as SaaS. That way the algorithm is on their servers only.
Germany is the nation with the highest wages in Europe, maybe in the world. You should not be surprised. I would gladly change my finnish pay for $100k a year.
You get a Nobel prize for actions you took during the year prior to getting it. It's not a "life time achievement award". Sadly, they don't come and take it back even if you later start assassinating people with drones.
Not that I disagree with you though.
Here in Europe, you are already "payed for using less electricity" because the carbon market thing has raised your electricity price. Unfortunately, electricity users are all either paying more or at least the same. Carbon neutral electricity producers are the ones making money.
Hello?
I'm willing to bet the stem cell researcher has used Linux on her research. The myriad things Linux is used for is what makes it so important. The fact that Flash does not work on your computer is just one of the many good things Linux has brought us.
$99 up front and how much each month? For how long?
From this side of the pond, the U.S. phone market looks really weird. I just bought an N9 for 299€ without any plan. My phone bill is below 20€ / month and obviously, I can change any time. For me the cheapest iPhone would be 519€ - again without a plan... I do have the choice of buying the phone and paying in installments for two years, but why would I want to?