I agree that 3kW is a little on the high side, 2400W is very common in 240V countries. That is because these countries normally specify 15A wires, and and 10A circuit breakers, so if you pull the maximum out of the socket that you are allowed to, you can pull 2400W
For example, 2400W articles:
According to energy.gov, clothes dryers use 1800-5000W, although the latter are surely industrial as they would need to sit on a three phase socket
This still raises the question as to how long you really need to boil water for 2400W for a minute or two is not going to significantly shorten the life of the battery pack in the article.
Our society is shifting in dark and unpleasant ways, and I fear that if the public at large doesn't do something soon, the window of opportunity to put things right may pass us by.
The problem with expecting the public to do anything is that they won't. You need to do something. Join the EFF, write your legislator, turn up to council meetings. And when you say that this is too hard, realize that you are the public, and that they won't do anything
Freedom of Speech does not imply the freedom to be a dick.
The [French] Declaration provides for freedom of expression in Article 11, states that:
"The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law."[6]
According to the Freedom Forum Organization, legal systems, and society at large, recognize limits on the freedom of speech, particularly when freedom of speech conflicts with other values or rights.[36] Limitations to freedom of speech may follow the "harm principle" or the "offense principle", for example in the case of pornography or hate speech.[37] Limitations to freedom of speech may occur through legal sanction or social disapprobation, or both.[38]
In "On Liberty" (1859) John Stuart Mill argued that "...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered."[38] Mill argues that the fullest liberty of expression is required to push arguments to their logical limits, rather than the limits of social embarrassment. However, Mill also introduced what is known as the harm principle, in placing the following limitation on free expression: "the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."[38]
I would have been satisfied with the free credit protection. Now that they want to offer me 2 games, why can't I pick any 2 games that I want?
Seriously! Stop whinging. If they are giving you more than you wanted, just accept the extra, or throw it in the bin. But don't come here whinging about it, that is just needless whinging.
Add to that, that in most places small winnings such as these are tax free... that 12-15K per month becomes equivalent to 18-30K a month, depending on your tax regime. There aren't many who would turn that down...
However, there is also a non-trivial chance that it wouldn't last for that long, especially not once the trick was noticed. As well, most scratchie based schemes are only around for six months or so. And you might well get a lawsuit about committing fraud if you were ever caught, which, even if you eventually win, would also add to your operating costs.
This mineral, which is abundant in nature, is often used as an element in steel alloys or as an additive in lubricants. But it had not yet been extensively studied for use in electronics.
That is this material has been known about for quite some time, however it's applications to electronics are only now being investigated, and he initial results appear to be quite favourable.
If you really had to look it up, the least you could do is provide the link
That said, assuming that you are a software engineer, you really should have come across that term before, it's been around for 20 years, and in common use for at least ten.
I am surprised that no-one has mentioned Russian Ark as a good candidate for a long shot. This is a one shot ninety minute movie. Very impressive, and awesome scenery as well.
I am surprised that no-one has mentioned Russian Ark as a good candidate for a long shot. This is a one shot ninety minute movie. Very impressive, and awesome scenery as well.
The grandparent probably has customers using Eclipse, the only program that I know of to have the problem, there may well be others, but they are not in as wide-spread use.
However, Oracle has already fixed that problem, so the GP is just trolling.
That is a valid point about the communications, however, from the article, if incorrect data is sent by something pretending to be the tire gauge, it was enough to corrupt the controller to the point where even a simple reboot was not enough to fix it. It had to be replaced by the dealer. Certainly resources need to be allocated wisely however when the device crashes due to invalid inputs, that is at best annoying, at worst very expensive to repair.
Over here in Australia 'Maccers' is giving out shrek ear toys in happy meals only if the kid has 'ogre apples' (cut up apples, should be onions imo) instead of fries. Seems they are realising the only way to make kids healthy is buying them off.
Actually, I think that this is a good solution to the problem. The kids are still eating the burgers/nuggets which are not exactly healthy, but at least you are putting something healthy into the mix. And yes, I do think that Apples are healthy;-)
The other feature I wish existed is when I reply to a message on my iPhone, that it shows up in Outlook as replied to (via the Exchange ActiveSync). Without it, there's sometimes confusion whether I've replied to this or not when reviewing the emails on my desktop.
Here, here! I totally agree with this feature request. Sadly, even the vaunted blackberry can't get this right... my colleagues with balckberries also complain about this.
One question that I have not yet seen answered by anyone: How many Foxconn employees, or their dependent family members have committed suicide, but not by jumping off of the Foxconn roof.
We know that the Chinese national average is 14/100,000 per year. Foxconn have 485,000 employees, they have 10 suicides in the first half of 2010, at an average of 5/100,000 per year. So, so long as they don't have too many home-suicides, then we can agree that Foxconn is a good place.
The next thing to do is to look at that suicide figure and work out how many of those people who committed suicide had a job, if the national average for employed people committing suicide is less than 5/100,000 then, again, we can say that Foxconn is not doing too bad. However trying to compare workers suicide rates to national suicide rates seems to me to be a flawed methodology.
Oh, and as an aside, using Canada, and the real Foxconn employee numbers then you actually only "expect" 25 suicides by this time of year, and they have had 10 according to Wikipedia. But, as mentioned above, this does not include any who have decided to end their lives in a less public manner.
In theory you are correct. If the optimiser was perfect, then it would not make any difference by removing a column. However, since optimisers cannot be perfect, by removing a column you may be inadvertently removing the equivalent of a database index hint, and it might generate a different, and worse, query plan. Just because it doesn't make sense does not mean that the database won't do it;-)
[The decision to make btrfs default] would only made with the knowledge that production servers and desktops can be run on Lucid as a fully supported version of Ubuntu at the same time. I’d give it a 1-in-5 chance.
So it would appear that you are not the only one who would only run it on a server...
Of course, that should be who would not run it on a server...
[The decision to make btrfs default] would only made with the knowledge that production servers and desktops can be run on Lucid as a fully supported version of Ubuntu at the same time. I’d give it a 1-in-5 chance.
So it would appear that you are not the only one who would only run it on a server...
It’s a tough gauntlet, and it would only made with the knowledge that production servers and desktops can be run on Lucid as a fully supported version of Ubuntu at the same time. I’d give it a 1-in-5 chance.
There are quite a few pre-conditions for it to be made alpha, so it is not as likely as the summary makes it out to be.
See this comparison for example. This beta is slower than the webkit, which is also effectively a beta release.
Long story short, all of the javascript engines are getting faster, but we are about to hit a new roadblock with dramatically slower devices, this iPads, notebooks, and mobile phones.
Can't sync with Outlook (the phone doesn't have on-device encryption that would satisfy Exchange policies).
They should've just made it to lie about its policy enforcement to Exchange server like the iPhone did. That way it'd be banned from my corporate network like my iPhone was. Thanks Steve, you're such a smart guy.
Just as an aside, that bug is now fixed. To cut the story short, the 3GS does support it properly, earlier models do not, and iPhone 3.1 properly reports this to the server now.
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According to energy.gov, clothes dryers use 1800-5000W, although the latter are surely industrial as they would need to sit on a three phase socket This still raises the question as to how long you really need to boil water for 2400W for a minute or two is not going to significantly shorten the life of the battery pack in the article.
Our society is shifting in dark and unpleasant ways, and I fear that if the public at large doesn't do something soon, the window of opportunity to put things right may pass us by.
The problem with expecting the public to do anything is that they won't. You need to do something. Join the EFF, write your legislator, turn up to council meetings. And when you say that this is too hard, realize that you are the public, and that they won't do anything
The [French] Declaration provides for freedom of expression in Article 11, states that:
See Wikipedia
Seriously! Stop whinging. If they are giving you more than you wanted, just accept the extra, or throw it in the bin. But don't come here whinging about it, that is just needless whinging.
Paris is not the first city to implement such a ban on "gas guzzlers", many German cities already do this.
Add to that, that in most places small winnings such as these are tax free... that 12-15K per month becomes equivalent to 18-30K a month, depending on your tax regime. There aren't many who would turn that down... However, there is also a non-trivial chance that it wouldn't last for that long, especially not once the trick was noticed. As well, most scratchie based schemes are only around for six months or so. And you might well get a lawsuit about committing fraud if you were ever caught, which, even if you eventually win, would also add to your operating costs.
Isn't this just Moly disulphide, the lubricant in Molykote? http://www.dowcorning.com/content/molykote/anniversary.aspx?bhcp=1
Possibly, from the article:
This mineral, which is abundant in nature, is often used as an element in steel alloys or as an additive in lubricants. But it had not yet been extensively studied for use in electronics.
That is this material has been known about for quite some time, however it's applications to electronics are only now being investigated, and he initial results appear to be quite favourable.
That said, assuming that you are a software engineer, you really should have come across that term before, it's been around for 20 years, and in common use for at least ten.
The repository was updated before the announcement. ConceivableTech was apparently one of the few that noticed it before the actual announcement.
This would appear to be the case, as they have updated the story to point to Google's blog post on the crankshaft update.
I am surprised that no-one has mentioned Russian Ark as a good candidate for a long shot. This is a one shot ninety minute movie. Very impressive, and awesome scenery as well.
Aw crap... wrong story to add the comment to Why doesn't /. have a delete my post button!
I am surprised that no-one has mentioned Russian Ark as a good candidate for a long shot. This is a one shot ninety minute movie. Very impressive, and awesome scenery as well.
Update 21, which fixes some, and possibly these, vulnerabilities was released in July, Update 22 however was released last week.
However, Oracle has already fixed that problem, so the GP is just trolling.
http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/oracle-demostrates-great-community-support-and-fixes-eclipse/
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6969236
http://bewarethepenguin.blogspot.com/2010/07/tip-of-hat-to-oracle.html
That is a valid point about the communications, however, from the article, if incorrect data is sent by something pretending to be the tire gauge, it was enough to corrupt the controller to the point where even a simple reboot was not enough to fix it. It had to be replaced by the dealer. Certainly resources need to be allocated wisely however when the device crashes due to invalid inputs, that is at best annoying, at worst very expensive to repair.
Over here in Australia 'Maccers' is giving out shrek ear toys in happy meals only if the kid has 'ogre apples' (cut up apples, should be onions imo) instead of fries. Seems they are realising the only way to make kids healthy is buying them off.
Actually, I think that this is a good solution to the problem. The kids are still eating the burgers/nuggets which are not exactly healthy, but at least you are putting something healthy into the mix. And yes, I do think that Apples are healthy ;-)
The other feature I wish existed is when I reply to a message on my iPhone, that it shows up in Outlook as replied to (via the Exchange ActiveSync). Without it, there's sometimes confusion whether I've replied to this or not when reviewing the emails on my desktop.
Here, here! I totally agree with this feature request. Sadly, even the vaunted blackberry can't get this right... my colleagues with balckberries also complain about this.
We know that the Chinese national average is 14/100,000 per year. Foxconn have 485,000 employees, they have 10 suicides in the first half of 2010, at an average of 5/100,000 per year. So, so long as they don't have too many home-suicides, then we can agree that Foxconn is a good place.
The next thing to do is to look at that suicide figure and work out how many of those people who committed suicide had a job, if the national average for employed people committing suicide is less than 5/100,000 then, again, we can say that Foxconn is not doing too bad. However trying to compare workers suicide rates to national suicide rates seems to me to be a flawed methodology.
Oh, and as an aside, using Canada, and the real Foxconn employee numbers then you actually only "expect" 25 suicides by this time of year, and they have had 10 according to Wikipedia. But, as mentioned above, this does not include any who have decided to end their lives in a less public manner.
In theory you are correct. If the optimiser was perfect, then it would not make any difference by removing a column. However, since optimisers cannot be perfect, by removing a column you may be inadvertently removing the equivalent of a database index hint, and it might generate a different, and worse, query plan. Just because it doesn't make sense does not mean that the database won't do it ;-)
From the article:
[The decision to make btrfs default] would only made with the knowledge that production servers and desktops can be run on Lucid as a fully supported version of Ubuntu at the same time. I’d give it a 1-in-5 chance.
So it would appear that you are not the only one who would only run it on a server...
Of course, that should be who would not run it on a server...
[The decision to make btrfs default] would only made with the knowledge that production servers and desktops can be run on Lucid as a fully supported version of Ubuntu at the same time. I’d give it a 1-in-5 chance.
So it would appear that you are not the only one who would only run it on a server...
It’s a tough gauntlet, and it would only made with the knowledge that production servers and desktops can be run on Lucid as a fully supported version of Ubuntu at the same time. I’d give it a 1-in-5 chance.
There are quite a few pre-conditions for it to be made alpha, so it is not as likely as the summary makes it out to be.
See this comparison for example. This beta is slower than the webkit, which is also effectively a beta release. Long story short, all of the javascript engines are getting faster, but we are about to hit a new roadblock with dramatically slower devices, this iPads, notebooks, and mobile phones.
Do you mind if we call you Bruce just to keep is clear?
They should've just made it to lie about its policy enforcement to Exchange server like the iPhone did. That way it'd be banned from my corporate network like my iPhone was. Thanks Steve, you're such a smart guy.
Just as an aside, that bug is now fixed. To cut the story short, the 3GS does support it properly, earlier models do not, and iPhone 3.1 properly reports this to the server now.