If you want to stop these losses, I have a plan: tell people that they get one laptop. If they lose it, they can try to do their job without one, and if they can't do it, then they can find a new job somewhere else. Like the private sector. Maybe McDonalds. Or if you can't tolerate being that extreme, just make any loss of a laptop come with an automatic demotion of one Government Service grade. There's nothing like the fear of demotion to strike fear into the hearts of bureaucrats.
Better plan: Laptop is checked out to them, if they lose it, they bought it (at a premium price, including all the software). Automatically deducted from their salary. You'd see a lot less "lost" laptops. Also would wourk better if they used a non-windows CPU (ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.).
I'll bet that they aren't the exact same pixels. If you magnify them you'll set that the characters have a "fuzzy" border, and the differing occurrences are "fuzzed" differently. This is to improve readibility to us mere humans.
What's with that second "review" part? This is slashdot, you fool! If you can't find any reason to blame it on Bush, do it anyway. Who cares about something as stupid as "facts", when you can blame it on Bush! You can blame the fall of the Roman Empire on George W. Bush, and 99% of slashdot readers will believe you, even if the article you link to is a herbal viagra advertisement.
Ah, yes, but you're mistaking the source of energy here. The putative nuclear plant isn't being used to store energy in the fuel - sunlight and photosynthesis are. The nuke plant is being used to provide fresh water for the plants. It is still a power input, but an indirect one, which means that it's maximum output is probably much smaller than the total power input involved in making the biofuel.
Conversely, with battery power, all of the energy has to come from some man made power generator. Solar panels could store the same energy per square meter of land used as biofuel crops, but then you're up against manufacturing costs, whereas plants are essentially self-assembling.
You need to consider not only all the energy sources for biofuel production, but also all of the energy sinks too. Directly used energy is needed to move water to the crops, run the tractors, process the crops, etc. Indirectly, you need to generate enough fuel to support the farmers and their families, their support people (equipment builders, repairmen, chemical companies, salesmen, etc.), otherwise you end up operating a power system which uses up more fuel than it generates. Short term you might not notice, but long term it will become a big problem.
Tidal would be an obvious choice for desalination plants. Wind, Solar, Nuclear, etc., would be equally well suited for the job.
Ok, you use electricity generated by tidal generators (, etc), to run a desalanation plant, in order to get water to grow crops, which are then processed (more tidal power or biodesal I assume) into biofuel. Also take out a large portion of the biofuel which will be used to power the tractors (and etc) used to manage the crops.
Are you really expecting to generate more commercially usable watts from biofuel than all the energy you have to pump into it? Currently all the biofuels I've heard about max out about 2 times the energy put in (in a good year) (and the commonly mentioned corn as biofuel is much less than that). Considering that you are already operating at most 50% efficiency, do you think you can run sufficient desalination using the extra energy and still do better than break even? Crops need a LOT of water. Don't forget to factor in crop failure (insects, disease, weather, etc).
The entire fuel needs people involved in running the tidal/biofuel must also be taken into the efficiency equations. The goal is to generate additional energy, not to create a new segment that consumes everything it creates.
And, what enviornmental effects will all those desalanation plants have? What do you do with all the salt you extract? What will all that extra water do to the ecology of the area it is dumped into? If you return it to the sea, what will the higer salinity do to the wildlife? What of the heat generated by the desalanation plant, and its power sources? How much forest, wetland, prairie, etc. will you have to take over to make room for the crops?
Wouldn't it be easier and more efficient just to use the electricity from these other generators directly, instead of running the power through an inefficient biofuel cycle?
This program can not be used for many types of medical research.
Curing cancer often incures rather nasty, harmful, effects. Hair falling out, severe nausia, and killing off of a large chunk of meat. The final effects are usually desirable, but this license forbids its use in the search for better cancer cures.
Then there is that stupid "or through inaction" bit. Therefore this program MUST automatically leap out of its repository, and catch anyone who falls off a ladder, or might somehow suffer ANY damaging effects. If it doesn't, it fails its legal responsibility, and should be held financially responsable. Since it is the programmers who added this requirement to the license, but failed to give the program any such capability, they are the responsable parties.
this is a distro for people who already know/whant to learn GNU/Linux.
Whell, what else whould you whant from them? Whe need to start somewhere to get Linux mainstream.
Anywhay, I don't think Debian is as hard as some whant to think it is. Those having problems are usually working hard at being clueless. It's like whatching someone try to set the time on a VCR: "What? Press 'setup', select 'set time' and enter the time? Why make it soooooo complicated? I don't understand! If I try that it might exploide! They shouldn't put such dangerous buttons on the control!"
4. The game project, including all source and content assets, must be shared with the receiving user. The receiving user then compiles and deploys the game to their Xbox 360.
Is there anything to prevent MicroSoft from "innovating"[*] it?
[*] A MicroSoft term meaning "to copy someone elses work and claim as their own".
Aren't windows users trained to click yes? If you try to do anything, you are often slammed with warning boxes, confirm boxes, software license agreement boxes, reboot request boxes, etc. And I hear that vista is even worse in this regards. You get trained to click through them as fast as possible if you actually want to get anything done. The fact you click on that one out of a thousand that actually is malicious shouldn't be a surprise.
Since Sony HAS released a Linux development release for the Playstation 2, and I've heard rumors that the PS3 hard drive will have Linux pre-loaded, and the that the development platform for PS3 will be Linux, it's likely that the PS3 will have some kind of Linux available.
I'll just throw one of these in the trunk of my flying car in case it runs out of gas!...
That might work... if you only run out of gas less than 2 miles from a gas station (you need to get back too)... Or, you could put a 90lb can of gas in your trunk instead.
Ok, $30 for something that can temporely power a cell phone. Assume 4X for the power requirements of the $100PC, giving a $120 to power the PC.
Ok, after spening $120 for the solar cells, how much is left over for the $100 PC?
Or, if you decide to only use 3 of these cells (for $90), you have $10 for the rest of the PC. I'm sure that can make a useful PC for less than the cost of a cheap calculator.
Heck, 1 of these is almost 1/3 the price of the entire $100 PC. And then it will only work during clear daylight hours. If you add batteries for continuous work, then you will have to leave your PC out in the sun when you go to work. Good opportunity for someone to collect up several of these (theft) sitting out in the open. Even if the theif only got $1.00 for each one of these he stole, that is still *very* good money in many of the countries being targeted, where the average wage is often less than $40 per year (less than $1.00/week).
It's amazing how much Microsoft has gotten people to accept.
If you went into a grocery store, and they demanded that you prove that you actually own the clothes, jewelry, and everything else you came in with. every single time you came in, and confiscating anything that you couldn't immediately prove ownership for. How often would you go back to that store?
However, you allow Microsoft this behavior, with only an "Ah well" in response, and go back to them several times a day?
Soon, Microsoft will include accusations of piracy in the packages they sell. Probably on the "Certificate of Authenticity", which Microsofy says can't be used to prove authenticity.
Maybe they can include the electronics from one of those cards that talk, like those bitrthday cards that play "happy birthday" when opened. As soon as you open the package, you hear Steve Balmer screaming obscenities at you, with the sound of crashing chairs in the background.
The standard Boot up song could be replaced with a diatribe accusing you of many things, and a demand that you pay $699 to SCO.
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SCOX shares took a loss of 18.75%, or $0.39, to close at $1.69.
Damn, there goes my retirement fund...
If you want to stop these losses, I have a plan: tell people that they get one laptop. If they lose it, they can try to do their job without one, and if they can't do it, then they can find a new job somewhere else. Like the private sector. Maybe McDonalds. Or if you can't tolerate being that extreme, just make any loss of a laptop come with an automatic demotion of one Government Service grade. There's nothing like the fear of demotion to strike fear into the hearts of bureaucrats.
Better plan: Laptop is checked out to them, if they lose it, they bought it (at a premium price, including all the software). Automatically deducted from their salary. You'd see a lot less "lost" laptops. Also would wourk better if they used a non-windows CPU (ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.).
a learning process modeled on Microsoft's management techniques.
Is this the "flying chairs" model?
I'll bet that they aren't the exact same pixels. If you magnify them you'll set that the characters have a "fuzzy" border, and the differing occurrences are "fuzzed" differently. This is to improve readibility to us mere humans.
Now we know what the secret of NIMH was.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084649/
Flame Bush, then review the facts.
What's with that second "review" part? This is slashdot, you fool! If you can't find any reason to blame it on Bush, do it anyway. Who cares about something as stupid as "facts", when you can blame it on Bush! You can blame the fall of the Roman Empire on George W. Bush, and 99% of slashdot readers will believe you, even if the article you link to is a herbal viagra advertisement.
They paid $6000 for two bits of cardboard?
Someone on Ebay is having a good day.
Anyone else read that and wonder what IBM would want with the International Space Station?
Nope. You're the only one who made that misteak.
If you have to pay for it, it's a hooker, not a girlfriend.
Ah, yes, but you're mistaking the source of energy here. The putative nuclear plant isn't being used to store energy in the fuel - sunlight and photosynthesis are. The nuke plant is being used to provide fresh water for the plants. It is still a power input, but an indirect one, which means that it's maximum output is probably much smaller than the total power input involved in making the biofuel.
Conversely, with battery power, all of the energy has to come from some man made power generator. Solar panels could store the same energy per square meter of land used as biofuel crops, but then you're up against manufacturing costs, whereas plants are essentially self-assembling.
You need to consider not only all the energy sources for biofuel production, but also all of the energy sinks too. Directly used energy is needed to move water to the crops, run the tractors, process the crops, etc. Indirectly, you need to generate enough fuel to support the farmers and their families, their support people (equipment builders, repairmen, chemical companies, salesmen, etc.), otherwise you end up operating a power system which uses up more fuel than it generates. Short term you might not notice, but long term it will become a big problem.
Tidal would be an obvious choice for desalination plants. Wind, Solar, Nuclear, etc., would be equally well suited for the job.
Ok, you use electricity generated by tidal generators (, etc), to run a desalanation plant, in order to get water to grow crops, which are then processed (more tidal power or biodesal I assume) into biofuel. Also take out a large portion of the biofuel which will be used to power the tractors (and etc) used to manage the crops.
Are you really expecting to generate more commercially usable watts from biofuel than all the energy you have to pump into it? Currently all the biofuels I've heard about max out about 2 times the energy put in (in a good year) (and the commonly mentioned corn as biofuel is much less than that). Considering that you are already operating at most 50% efficiency, do you think you can run sufficient desalination using the extra energy and still do better than break even? Crops need a LOT of water. Don't forget to factor in crop failure (insects, disease, weather, etc).
The entire fuel needs people involved in running the tidal/biofuel must also be taken into the efficiency equations. The goal is to generate additional energy, not to create a new segment that consumes everything it creates.
And, what enviornmental effects will all those desalanation plants have? What do you do with all the salt you extract? What will all that extra water do to the ecology of the area it is dumped into? If you return it to the sea, what will the higer salinity do to the wildlife? What of the heat generated by the desalanation plant, and its power sources? How much forest, wetland, prairie, etc. will you have to take over to make room for the crops?
Wouldn't it be easier and more efficient just to use the electricity from these other generators directly, instead of running the power through an inefficient biofuel cycle?
This program can not be used for many types of medical research.
Curing cancer often incures rather nasty, harmful, effects. Hair falling out, severe nausia, and killing off of a large chunk of meat. The final effects are usually desirable, but this license forbids its use in the search for better cancer cures.
Then there is that stupid "or through inaction" bit. Therefore this program MUST automatically leap out of its repository, and catch anyone who falls off a ladder, or might somehow suffer ANY damaging effects. If it doesn't, it fails its legal responsibility, and should be held financially responsable. Since it is the programmers who added this requirement to the license, but failed to give the program any such capability, they are the responsable parties.
this is a distro for people who already know/whant to learn GNU/Linux.
Whell, what else whould you whant from them? Whe need to start somewhere to get Linux mainstream.
Anywhay, I don't think Debian is as hard as some whant to think it is. Those having problems are usually working hard at being clueless. It's like whatching someone try to set the time on a VCR: "What? Press 'setup', select 'set time' and enter the time? Why make it soooooo complicated? I don't understand! If I try that it might exploide! They shouldn't put such dangerous buttons on the control!"
4. The game project, including all source and content assets, must be shared with the receiving user. The receiving user then compiles and deploys the game to their Xbox 360.
Is there anything to prevent MicroSoft from "innovating"[*] it?
[*] A MicroSoft term meaning "to copy someone elses work and claim as their own".
...but the user has to PERMIT the program to run.
Aren't windows users trained to click yes? If you try to do anything, you are often slammed with warning boxes, confirm boxes, software license agreement boxes, reboot request boxes, etc. And I hear that vista is even worse in this regards. You get trained to click through them as fast as possible if you actually want to get anything done. The fact you click on that one out of a thousand that actually is malicious shouldn't be a surprise.
Fins worked for Edsel, so all new PC's should have them too! Fins will make them go faster than those old, plain, slow, white boxes!
Since Sony HAS released a Linux development release for the Playstation 2, and I've heard rumors that the PS3 hard drive will have Linux pre-loaded, and the that the development platform for PS3 will be Linux, it's likely that the PS3 will have some kind of Linux available.
I'll just throw one of these in the trunk of my flying car in case it runs out of gas!...
... if you only run out of gas less than 2 miles from a gas station (you need to get back too) ... Or, you could put a 90lb can of gas in your trunk instead.
That might work
Does this mean that Vista will have to be delayed again?
All we'd need to do is load the car up with a bunch of batteries. . .
Nah, just pile solor cells on top of the car. A quarter acres worth ought to do it.
Umm, Brains!!!
Ok, $30 for something that can temporely power a cell phone. Assume 4X for the power requirements of the $100PC, giving a $120 to power the PC.
Ok, after spening $120 for the solar cells, how much is left over for the $100 PC?
Or, if you decide to only use 3 of these cells (for $90), you have $10 for the rest of the PC. I'm sure that can make a useful PC for less than the cost of a cheap calculator.
Heck, 1 of these is almost 1/3 the price of the entire $100 PC. And then it will only work during clear daylight hours. If you add batteries for continuous work, then you will have to leave your PC out in the sun when you go to work. Good opportunity for someone to collect up several of these (theft) sitting out in the open. Even if the theif only got $1.00 for each one of these he stole, that is still *very* good money in many of the countries being targeted, where the average wage is often less than $40 per year (less than $1.00/week).
What's wrong with the mickey-mouse head on its side?
It's SCOs actual (death to Mickey Mouse) logo.
It's amazing how much Microsoft has gotten people to accept.
If you went into a grocery store, and they demanded that you prove that you actually own the clothes, jewelry, and everything else you came in with. every single time you came in, and confiscating anything that you couldn't immediately prove ownership for. How often would you go back to that store?
However, you allow Microsoft this behavior, with only an "Ah well" in response, and go back to them several times a day?
Boy, do they have you well trained.
Soon, Microsoft will include accusations of piracy in the packages they sell. Probably on the "Certificate of Authenticity", which Microsofy says can't be used to prove authenticity.
Maybe they can include the electronics from one of those cards that talk, like those bitrthday cards that play "happy birthday" when opened. As soon as you open the package, you hear Steve Balmer screaming obscenities at you, with the sound of crashing chairs in the background.
The standard Boot up song could be replaced with a diatribe accusing you of many things, and a demand that you pay $699 to SCO.