In the Himalayas, parabolic mirrors around this size are commonly used to boil kettles of water for tea/cooking.
It works at those altitudes, because the sunlight is more intense (less having been absorbed by the atmosphere), and because water boils at a lower temperature at the lower atmospheric pressure.
Screw the Himalayas. I was 12 when our year 7 (1st year of junior high for you Americans) science class constructed solar ovens out of aluminium foil, a large tin can, coat hangar wire and masking tape. They were good enough to cook sausages and eggs and this was at sea level. It wasn't lame but it wasn't exactly difficult for a 12 year old. A smart but not genius 8 year old could do it.
The parabolic reflector is only one design. Just Google solar oven science project for kids
It's not NASA's fault, the actual press release says nothing of the sort.
They should have linked to the press release not some blog by some Network guy. For the job he did on this one might speculate blogger Michael Cooney might be sent to a less habitable planet by civilisations less forgiving than ours.
Just to clarify, in the end I was not out any legal fees and I agreed to remove the review and never mention the author, or publisher, in writing, again. It was still a rather lengthy and annoying ordeal for telling the truth. As it is said, no good deed goes unpunished.
So they annoyed you into submission?
Freedoms aren't something you get without defending them. This is the equivalent of a burglar knocking on your door and pestering you to come in, and so finally after a few hours you just say "Come in and take what you like".
As a teacher I reviewed a book that I tried for one semester in one of my classes. The review was quite mixed. It wasn't terrible; but I definitely had no intention of using the book again. You notice that I am not naming the book here. That was part of the final agreement.
This has definitely put a damper on my willingness to provide honest comments about the books used in my classes. It has also impacted my willingness to experiment with different materials. I pick a safe book used by other teachers and I never recommend experimentation. In a litigious society, the safe way really is the best way.
You know who suffers when you lay down like this? You and your students.
Best thing you could have done is just worked out how to word the reviews so that it's harder to sue.
For a second, I thought it read as "Android passes Sybian for most shipped mobile platform" and I couldn't help but wonder, what this new android vibrator was, and since when did Sybian have a mobile version.
I'm pretty sure that if your phone starts vibrating that hard, you should throw it in the nearest lake MacGyver style since it's about to explode!!!
Hay Sony. I think I'm gonna circumvent you now. Seriously regretting buying that PS3.
I bought a Sony 55" TV last year. They had the better product. I was ambivalent about the purchase and now even more so. Trouble is it seems all companies are going down this retarded path of treating their customers as the enemy. I'm not prepared to live like a hermit just yet.
Do we have to travel to Egypt to show our displeasure, or is this an egyptian only affiar?
Well you can travel to Egypt and then blog about it, but they're using very real violence. I don't think your snarky status update is going to compare with a beating, tear gas, bombing or being executed. The truth is social networks only have any real power if people care about the issue, and then it is just a question of having a medium where one person can disseminate the information quickly to many other people.
It wasn't too long ago that I was hired for my first real job out of college for $37,500/yr with benefits. The video game studio position was lower salaried than other jobs I could have had. (I even turned down one.) I didn't make the wrong choice, despite holding multiple college level degrees. I had a blast, I learned skills I didn't expect, and I'm better for it. The only things pathetic in this story are reactions like yours revealing how money is the only thing to chase in so many peoples' eyes.
You'll change your tune if you get sick, or if you have a family and your wife or children are sick. You'll find no one cares how much fun you're having at work.
Most importantly, twitter has been blocked by many national carriers."
Those are some pretty odd priorities. I would have thought "tens of thousands protesting" is a little more important than some online service being blocked.
News just in: Asteroid about to impact Earth, extinction event imminent, but more disturbingly, I can't log in to Slashdot!"
You can infiltrate but unless you can reach the level that can held accountable for the actions being acceptable you are only frying small fish. You need to catch out the whales and fry their asses.
I don't think vegetarians would be terribly interested in fried whale ass.
Say what you want about the quality of the show, but if it was consistently downloaded by that many people, it had an audience. The problem was, it had an audience that couldn't be monetized.
How would you know? Nobody tried.
The audience just didn't want to wait until the network decided they could watch it at a particular time of the day. Much easier to download if you're into Sci-Fi and know how to use a computer.
And please leave out silly web 2.0 speak. "They couldn't find a way to make the audience pay"....not "The audience couldn't be monetized" which sounds like "The audience couldn't be milked".
10 billion of anything is an amazing number. 10 billion apps is amazing, especially given that the app store didn't even exist a few years ago. That means that a huge percentage of the installed base actually uses the app store. That's a lot of hits. That's a lot of usability thinking. That's a whole lot of infrastructure.
You haters who think Apple sucks - they have an infrastructure capable of billing, invoicing, tracking, and serving up 10 billion plus items; the same infrastructure is used for iTunes. 1% of their traffic would crush your website.
MacDonalds have sold an estimated 245 Billion Hamburgers. Granted at brick and mortar stores. Granted not over as short a timeframe. But we're talking physical product not digital download. I guess that's 24.5 times as impressive and we're in the wrong business. That's it I'm quitting and practicing my "Would you like fries with that?"
Slashdot Mirror
In the Himalayas, parabolic mirrors around this size are commonly used to boil kettles of water for tea/cooking.
It works at those altitudes, because the sunlight is more intense (less having been absorbed by the atmosphere), and because water boils at a lower temperature at the lower atmospheric pressure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cooker#Solar_kettles
Screw the Himalayas. I was 12 when our year 7 (1st year of junior high for you Americans) science class constructed solar ovens out of aluminium foil, a large tin can, coat hangar wire and masking tape. They were good enough to cook sausages and eggs and this was at sea level. It wasn't lame but it wasn't exactly difficult for a 12 year old. A smart but not genius 8 year old could do it.
The parabolic reflector is only one design. Just Google solar oven science project for kids
http://www.crystal-clear-science-fair-projects.com/solar-oven-science-project.html
http://www.columbiascientific.com/science-fair-experiments/garretts-solar-oven-science-project
This should not have been a slashdot story.
http://www.tv.com/the-big-bang-theory/the-cruciferous-vegetable-amplification/episode/1356071/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary
It's not NASA's fault, the actual press release says nothing of the sort.
They should have linked to the press release not some blog by some Network guy. For the job he did on this one might speculate blogger Michael Cooney might be sent to a less habitable planet by civilisations less forgiving than ours.
Just to clarify, in the end I was not out any legal fees and I agreed to remove the review and never mention the author, or publisher, in writing, again. It was still a rather lengthy and annoying ordeal for telling the truth. As it is said, no good deed goes unpunished.
So they annoyed you into submission?
Freedoms aren't something you get without defending them. This is the equivalent of a burglar knocking on your door and pestering you to come in, and so finally after a few hours you just say "Come in and take what you like".
As a teacher I reviewed a book that I tried for one semester in one of my classes. The review was quite mixed. It wasn't terrible; but I definitely had no intention of using the book again. You notice that I am not naming the book here. That was part of the final agreement.
This has definitely put a damper on my willingness to provide honest comments about the books used in my classes. It has also impacted my willingness to experiment with different materials. I pick a safe book used by other teachers and I never recommend experimentation. In a litigious society, the safe way really is the best way.
You know who suffers when you lay down like this? You and your students.
Best thing you could have done is just worked out how to word the reviews so that it's harder to sue.
For a second, I thought it read as "Android passes Sybian for most shipped mobile platform" and I couldn't help but wonder, what this new android vibrator was, and since when did Sybian have a mobile version.
I'm pretty sure that if your phone starts vibrating that hard, you should throw it in the nearest lake MacGyver style since it's about to explode!!!
Ironically, Noor means light in Arabic.
Not ironic at all....lights (noor) out....
The internet in Egypt is still easier to read than slashdot 3.0.
I wonder what the slashdot Rosetta Stone would look like? My guess is ASCII porn and ASCII wiring diagrams, but mostly ASCII porn.
More proof that we need to be able to moderate summaries
Who wouldn't want to say that!?!
In your face nuclear powered data centers!
How is that a troll? Moderation here is absolute garbage.
Hay Sony. I think I'm gonna circumvent you now. Seriously regretting buying that PS3.
I bought a Sony 55" TV last year. They had the better product. I was ambivalent about the purchase and now even more so. Trouble is it seems all companies are going down this retarded path of treating their customers as the enemy. I'm not prepared to live like a hermit just yet.
Want to play LittleBigPlanet2
God, no!
Do we have to travel to Egypt to show our displeasure, or is this an egyptian only affiar?
Well you can travel to Egypt and then blog about it, but they're using very real violence. I don't think your snarky status update is going to compare with a beating, tear gas, bombing or being executed. The truth is social networks only have any real power if people care about the issue, and then it is just a question of having a medium where one person can disseminate the information quickly to many other people.
It wasn't too long ago that I was hired for my first real job out of college for $37,500/yr with benefits. The video game studio position was lower salaried than other jobs I could have had. (I even turned down one.) I didn't make the wrong choice, despite holding multiple college level degrees. I had a blast, I learned skills I didn't expect, and I'm better for it. The only things pathetic in this story are reactions like yours revealing how money is the only thing to chase in so many peoples' eyes.
You'll change your tune if you get sick, or if you have a family and your wife or children are sick. You'll find no one cares how much fun you're having at work.
Most importantly, twitter has been blocked by many national carriers."
Those are some pretty odd priorities. I would have thought "tens of thousands protesting" is a little more important than some online service being blocked.
News just in: Asteroid about to impact Earth, extinction event imminent, but more disturbingly, I can't log in to Slashdot!"
New here?
It generates an extra 3 fiddy per ticket. It works perfectly!
Small fries. It doubles the price of a big screen TV. How's an extra $2000 per unit sound?
MacDonalds have sold an estimated 245 Billion Hamburgers.
Guess you didn't bother to notice the "the app store didn't even exist a few years ago" bit. MacD opened in 1955.
Guess you didn't notice I said "Granted not over as short a timeframe". Oh, the irony!
How about just giving it to the man's family instead of trying to milk ahem I mean monetise it or "dispose" of it?
Copyright seriously needs to be amended to disallow shelving and destruction of a work.
You can infiltrate but unless you can reach the level that can held accountable for the actions being acceptable you are only frying small fish. You need to catch out the whales and fry their asses.
I don't think vegetarians would be terribly interested in fried whale ass.
Know for a fact, Dundee Uni vegetarian society in the mid '80s was infiltrated by the plods
Who cares if some vegetarians at some UK uni got diarrhea?
Say what you want about the quality of the show, but if it was consistently downloaded by that many people, it had an audience. The problem was, it had an audience that couldn't be monetized.
How would you know? Nobody tried.
The audience just didn't want to wait until the network decided they could watch it at a particular time of the day. Much easier to download if you're into Sci-Fi and know how to use a computer.
And please leave out silly web 2.0 speak. "They couldn't find a way to make the audience pay"....not "The audience couldn't be monetized" which sounds like "The audience couldn't be milked".
psh. you can do pretty much everything with computers as far as music goes...you're stuck 20 years in the past my friend.
The trouble is that there's an old adage that says something like "You can give a kid a steinway grand piano, but that won't make him Beethoven"
...and you'd be in deep trouble if you poked the kids eardrums out trying...
10 billion of anything is an amazing number. 10 billion apps is amazing, especially given that the app store didn't even exist a few years ago. That means that a huge percentage of the installed base actually uses the app store. That's a lot of hits. That's a lot of usability thinking. That's a whole lot of infrastructure.
You haters who think Apple sucks - they have an infrastructure capable of billing, invoicing, tracking, and serving up 10 billion plus items; the same infrastructure is used for iTunes. 1% of their traffic would crush your website.
MacDonalds have sold an estimated 245 Billion Hamburgers. Granted at brick and mortar stores. Granted not over as short a timeframe. But we're talking physical product not digital download. I guess that's 24.5 times as impressive and we're in the wrong business. That's it I'm quitting and practicing my "Would you like fries with that?"
Sign up as a dev with a single useless hello world app for $10000...then buy it with the gift card?
You mean fart app don't you?