Legions of corporate monitors display the default "Flying Windows Logo" screen saver day and night, rather than putting monitors in sleep mode. This wastes a constant stream of juice.
One monitor will use $35 a year of electricity after-hours and on weekends. That's not including the extra heat load on building HVAC.
In a company with 1000 computers, IT could save $35k a year just by changing the default setting on desktop installs. (assumed: 50 W, $0.11/kWh)
Our clients have gone on to clarify, specifically, that the
Office 2007 file formats are incompatible with the older MS
Office versions and necessitate needless corporate updating
for their thousands of internal users,
Your clients are wrong. You can download a compatibility pack and readers for Office 2007 documents for Office
Do you really think that you are going to tell a multi-million-dollar customer, "Do it our way, or you can take your millions of dollars of business elsewhere?"
These labs are run by the Department of Energy, not Defense.
They are not defense labs, they are scientific research institutes.
They also provide several large experimental facilities (>$200M) that universities could never afford to run, that give free access to profs who want to use them.
Hard drives are based on nanotech - They have features on the nanoscale.
What the submitter may mean is that magnetic storage might be supplanted by storage based on other state variables than magnetic domain orientation, or that non-binary storage (4-bit, etc.) may eventually supplant binary storage.
Duh.
Numerous entities are pursuing solid state storage (no moving parts), and have been for years. Flash, NAND, FeRAM, MI transition layers, phase change storage, and on and on...
But the fact is that currently, hard drives are the most cost-efficient mode of permanent data storage in most applications. In some cases, solid state is more advantageous. As those technologies are developed, one or more will eventually replace hard drives.
It will be solid state. It may or may not be binary. But it will be nanotech, just like hard drives.
t's possible the lecturer has been in the field so long he doesn't remember how much a new engineer simply hasn't had the opportunity to learn.
As an educator, he probably is able to see this better than anyone who has been "out" for decades. All he would need to do is to look at his test file, and compare the final exams of the last 20 or 30 years.
Then again, removing information, by pixellating for example, would be best.
Perhaps for a photo, but not in a video clip. It's likely you can find 2 seconds of video in which the face does not change orientation, particularly if they are moving around. Moving around changes the binning of the image into a pixellated one. You can reverse it by frame-averaging 2 seconds (30 frames) of a blurred face, which in effect is oversampling a source, and you can get enough to recognize a face.
Is this Wall Street Journal article on the credibility of (medical) scientific research an invitation to scientists to publish in Nature that modern economic theory is grounded in the flawed assumptions that individuals will make choices based on the most desirable outcome in every instance? Or their insistence on ignoring that an economic system is inherently finite, and thus unlikely to settle into an optimal state? Or how about the time scale of settling, which in many cases would be longer than human lifespans and thus unrealistic in the light of basic human psychology? Oscillatory systems?
They are inviting physicists to take aim at the flaws in modern economic theory. This is sorely needed.
Altering a consumer item does not void the warranty unless it can be shown that the alteration caused the failure. It is the responsbility of the warranty issuer to prove it if indeed it is the consumer's fault. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson-Moss_Warranty_Act
Don't listen to the constant FUD that modding anything you buy voids the warranty. It doesn't. Manufacturers can say that it does, but it's a lie.
Stores have no right to stop and demand your receipt as you exit. IF they reasonably suspect that you have shoplifted, they CAN detain you as a citizen's arrest, and call the cops. Blocking your egress without evidence is otherwise an assault.
People got used to this receipt-checking at Sam's, which is a "private club," and receipt-checking is probably somewhere in the agreement members sign. You have no such contractual agreement with any old store you walk into. (IANAL, BTW)
The security guards and store managers at many places do not understand this, and know only that they've been told to "get everyone to show a receipt." Someone in corporate decided it, as it makes people less inclined to shoplift. Events like those in the article are what will eventually put an end to this insulting practice.
He acknowledges that the drawings are fanciful, but also emphasizes that the book does make an important point, that development of an organism is an interplay of the mechanics of an organism with the genes that direct the development and organization of tissues in of an organism.
Topologically, we are all tubes (everyone has to eat), but of course we are also more than just our skin. Can anyone who has read the book say whether he was claiming that his fanciful drawings described embryonic development, or were they presented as thought experiments?
Any kernel that may have hinted at a potentially valuable new way to look at what we know was destroyed when the author sued, though.
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Legions of corporate monitors display the default "Flying Windows Logo" screen saver day and night, rather than putting monitors in sleep mode. This wastes a constant stream of juice.
One monitor will use $35 a year of electricity after-hours and on weekends. That's not including the extra heat load on building HVAC.
In a company with 1000 computers, IT could save $35k a year just by changing the default setting on desktop installs. (assumed: 50 W, $0.11/kWh)
So, I'm going to select my items on their web site.
And then drive to the store.
And then gather the items from the shelves myself. All the while, getting spammed by ads from the cart display?
Why not just shop an online grocer and be done with it?
Your clients are wrong. You can download a compatibility pack and readers for Office 2007 documents for Office
Do you really think that you are going to tell a multi-million-dollar customer, "Do it our way, or you can take your millions of dollars of business elsewhere?"
The customer is always right.
Inefficiency of an incandescent bulb is heat.
Plenty of people heat their house with electricity.
Heat a bulb puts out is heat that a furnace won't have to provide. In places where no AC is used, there won't be any net efficiency gained.
These labs are run by the Department of Energy, not Defense.
They are not defense labs, they are scientific research institutes.
They also provide several large experimental facilities (>$200M) that universities could never afford to run, that give free access to profs who want to use them.
They're not going anywhere for a long while.
They own copyright to the last 70 years' worth of popular music.
E.g., "Einstein was a great mathematician because he worked really hard at it for a long time" rather than "Einstein was a born genius."
Actually, Einstein had trouble with math. It was his first wife that helped him express his superb physical intuition in a mathematical form.
Faraday was bad at math, too, and rather a brilliant experimentalist.
and that just a few leaders can guide a swarm effectively by creating a bias in the swarm's movement that steers it in a particular direction.
In human populations, we call those marketers.
Hard drives are based on nanotech - They have features on the nanoscale.
What the submitter may mean is that magnetic storage might be supplanted by storage based on other state variables than magnetic domain orientation, or that non-binary storage (4-bit, etc.) may eventually supplant binary storage.
Duh.
Numerous entities are pursuing solid state storage (no moving parts), and have been for years. Flash, NAND, FeRAM, MI transition layers, phase change storage, and on and on...
But the fact is that currently, hard drives are the most cost-efficient mode of permanent data storage in most applications. In some cases, solid state is more advantageous. As those technologies are developed, one or more will eventually replace hard drives.
It will be solid state. It may or may not be binary. But it will be nanotech, just like hard drives.
t's possible the lecturer has been in the field so long he doesn't remember how much a new engineer simply hasn't had the opportunity to learn.
As an educator, he probably is able to see this better than anyone who has been "out" for decades. All he would need to do is to look at his test file, and compare the final exams of the last 20 or 30 years.
Then again, removing information, by pixellating for example, would be best.
Perhaps for a photo, but not in a video clip. It's likely you can find 2 seconds of video in which the face does not change orientation, particularly if they are moving around. Moving around changes the binning of the image into a pixellated one. You can reverse it by frame-averaging 2 seconds (30 frames) of a blurred face, which in effect is oversampling a source, and you can get enough to recognize a face.
Here is all the audiophile needs to get 100% perfectly clear listening: orchestras....
And probably cheaper in the end to boot!
Is this Wall Street Journal article on the credibility of (medical) scientific research an invitation to scientists to publish in Nature that modern economic theory is grounded in the flawed assumptions that individuals will make choices based on the most desirable outcome in every instance? Or their insistence on ignoring that an economic system is inherently finite, and thus unlikely to settle into an optimal state? Or how about the time scale of settling, which in many cases would be longer than human lifespans and thus unrealistic in the light of basic human psychology? Oscillatory systems?
They are inviting physicists to take aim at the flaws in modern economic theory. This is sorely needed.
Altering a consumer item does not void the warranty unless it can be shown that the alteration caused the failure. It is the responsbility of the warranty issuer to prove it if indeed it is the consumer's fault. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson-Moss_Warranty_Act
Don't listen to the constant FUD that modding anything you buy voids the warranty. It doesn't. Manufacturers can say that it does, but it's a lie.
If I quit using Ad-Block and go back sticking Post-Its on my screen to block that dancing monkey, am I still stealing?
Theft? Huh?
It's market forces in action.
Giving something away for free does not obligate a recipient in any way.
Stores have no right to stop and demand your receipt as you exit. IF they reasonably suspect that you have shoplifted, they CAN detain you as a citizen's arrest, and call the cops. Blocking your egress without evidence is otherwise an assault.
People got used to this receipt-checking at Sam's, which is a "private club," and receipt-checking is probably somewhere in the agreement members sign. You have no such contractual agreement with any old store you walk into. (IANAL, BTW)
The security guards and store managers at many places do not understand this, and know only that they've been told to "get everyone to show a receipt." Someone in corporate decided it, as it makes people less inclined to shoplift. Events like those in the article are what will eventually put an end to this insulting practice.
Science and chemistry are best taught with simple devices, hands-on.
springs, air cars, tennis balls, timers, rulers, bicycle wheels.
beakers, scales, water, eyedroppers.
Otherwise, the students will never get the feel for looking at the world with a critical eye. Your job is to make it real and accessible.
Link to the research group at Cornell: http://ccsl.mae.cornell.edu/research/selfmodels/ Lots more pics, movies, and details.
Thre is a very interesting and contrary review by another Professor, in the International Journal of Developmental Biology.
He acknowledges that the drawings are fanciful, but also emphasizes that the book does make an important point, that development of an organism is an interplay of the mechanics of an organism with the genes that direct the development and organization of tissues in of an organism.
Topologically, we are all tubes (everyone has to eat), but of course we are also more than just our skin. Can anyone who has read the book say whether he was claiming that his fanciful drawings described embryonic development, or were they presented as thought experiments?
Any kernel that may have hinted at a potentially valuable new way to look at what we know was destroyed when the author sued, though.
but why don't they put some sort of protective layer on top of the tiles for launch, which later gets shed...?
Well, then they would need a protective coating for that protective layer.
Then it might be necessary to put a shielding layer over that, and finally maybe shrink-wrap over the whole thing, just to "keep it nice."
FTA: Just 38 per cent of workers were relaxed enough to wait a day or longer before replying.
In other words, almost half.
Consumer devices with non-replaceable batteries have been around for decades.
Decades!
Oh what a brave new world it will be when they get computers to do this!
What is there to install with cable internet?
What slashdot reader dutifully installs all of the provider's junk-ware from the install package? There's nothing to set up. DHCP and done.