To address some of Klevin's confusion, since I've been following solar panel advancements:
Thin, flexible cells have been around for a while. One reason they haven't caught on heavily is because they're nowhere near as 'powerful' (efficient at conversion) as hard panels. Did a quick search (don't take this data *too* seriously, but it represents what's normal); compare panels from these two pages: Flexible Solid
Specifically, compare "Unisolar 32 watt flexible solar panel" from the first link to "Shell ST40 thin film CIS 40 watt solar panel" on the second. The flexible panel is 940 sq. inches and 32 watts, while the solid panel 663 sq. inches and 40 watts. Big difference in watt per area.
I ended up choosing a big solid one to fit in the rear dash of my car; flexible would have been easier to deal with, but it won't fold, and produces less power. (I use the panel in my car to power my laptop/cell phone combo while camping and stuff, it's very cool and gets a lot of questions from random interested people!)
Here's another chart to compare the two:
Product Page
Tried to find an efficiency rating chart comparing the two types, but no luck. The numbers are out there somewhere...
Good! We don't want that kind of idiot in our community anyway.
And I don't care if what idiots think about me is wrong. If they took time to look into it, they'd have an informed and different opinion; anyone who doesn't bother doesn't have an opinion strong enough to matter.
"People just don't care anymore, do they? Capitalization, their-they're-there, you're-your, mixing tenses, dangling modifiers, unclear use of pronouns and run-on sentences are just a few of the most common problems."
I'm no expert on grammar, but do you need a comma after 'pronouns'? I remember my English teachers saying that was optional but recommended.
You asked for it by not calling off the grammar flames;)
1. If you feel this distinction is so important, I hope you corrected it on the Wiki? It doesn't look to me like you did. The Wiki isn't magical, it requires people like you with knowledge to add information to it.
2. The Wiki article's *name* is "Frank Zappa". Britannica's article does acknowledge "orig. Francis Vincent Zappa", similar to the Wiki's introduction of "Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993)"...the Wiki's presentation of Vincent is shown in a way as to indicate that it's meant to be his birth name. Considering these things, it looks to me like the two encyclopedias are equal.
First I thought this story was a dupe, then I realized I was just rememberingvideos and comments from a previous discussion in the "Steel Bolt Hacking" story.
During the summer I like to camp out instead of live in an apartment. I hook up my laptop to my CDMA cell phone and read/. all the time!
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I meta-mod all positive moderation Unfair, because it's abuse of the system.
Ha, I like that! A spin on the sigs that say "I metamod all negative moderation Unfair because I want everyone to have to read 70 comments at a threshold of 5!"
"Go and experience what it was like and then come up with your own verdict of what you think of war."
Woah, that's messed up. No video game can be realistic to the point where a gamer should use it to "come up with a verdict" on what they think of war...
Here is zipped copy of the entire thing, including a fix of page 16 (+ links) mentioned by another/.'er below. I wanted a personal copy, figured I would offer it to anyone else who wanted to keep this excellent site...
It works for me in Firefox on 7 different computers. Using the link I gave, try uninstalling and reinstalling the extension. Maybe even the whole browser. Hope you can get it working...
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To address some of Klevin's confusion, since I've been following solar panel advancements:
Thin, flexible cells have been around for a while. One reason they haven't caught on heavily is because they're nowhere near as 'powerful' (efficient at conversion) as hard panels. Did a quick search (don't take this data *too* seriously, but it represents what's normal); compare panels from these two pages:
Flexible
Solid
Specifically, compare "Unisolar 32 watt flexible solar panel" from the first link to "Shell ST40 thin film CIS 40 watt solar panel" on the second. The flexible panel is 940 sq. inches and 32 watts, while the solid panel 663 sq. inches and 40 watts. Big difference in watt per area.
I ended up choosing a big solid one to fit in the rear dash of my car; flexible would have been easier to deal with, but it won't fold, and produces less power. (I use the panel in my car to power my laptop/cell phone combo while camping and stuff, it's very cool and gets a lot of questions from random interested people!)
Here's another chart to compare the two: Product Page
Tried to find an efficiency rating chart comparing the two types, but no luck. The numbers are out there somewhere...
Thank you for the mature reply, and thanks for the app I first got away from 3 IM clients with.
I'm using GAIM now, and it's great to hear that Cerulean has made contributions to improve GAIM! Big points for that.
Good! We don't want that kind of idiot in our community anyway.
And I don't care if what idiots think about me is wrong. If they took time to look into it, they'd have an informed and different opinion; anyone who doesn't bother doesn't have an opinion strong enough to matter.
"They all had made quite fair amounts."
:)
That would indicate that they all made fair amounts; that is, equal amounts. So they tied.
Thank you! Not only do I applaud your effort, but that list is fun to read just for how funny and lame some of those arguments sound...
"People just don't care anymore, do they? Capitalization, their-they're-there, you're-your, mixing tenses, dangling modifiers, unclear use of pronouns and run-on sentences are just a few of the most common problems."
;)
I'm no expert on grammar, but do you need a comma after 'pronouns'? I remember my English teachers saying that was optional but recommended.
You asked for it by not calling off the grammar flames
1. If you feel this distinction is so important, I hope you corrected it on the Wiki? It doesn't look to me like you did. The Wiki isn't magical, it requires people like you with knowledge to add information to it.
2. The Wiki article's *name* is "Frank Zappa". Britannica's article does acknowledge "orig. Francis Vincent Zappa", similar to the Wiki's introduction of "Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993)"...the Wiki's presentation of Vincent is shown in a way as to indicate that it's meant to be his birth name. Considering these things, it looks to me like the two encyclopedias are equal.
Dug out one for myself and decided to get the other and post them here for everyone else:
WMV
MOV
This is clearly a troll.
"But trusted computing to the OSS world really means that no processes will run on my machines that I didn't specifically authorize."
It's already like that; "trusted" computing isn't about you keeping control of your machine, it's about *others* controlling your machine.
I found two entries with similar names that both seem to be trolls:
http://slashdot.org/~Roland%20Piquepaille/
http://slashdot.org/~Roland%20Piquepialle/
Notice the spelling difference.
And this one he submits stories with:
http://slashdot.org/~rpiquepa/
First I thought this story was a dupe, then I realized I was just remembering videos and comments from a previous discussion in the "Steel Bolt Hacking" story.
"Infinium are trying to pull off something very difficult from a business perspective and Hard[OCP] stuck the boot in..."
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What the hell? Where did you come from? Nice misinformation. Go read some of the evidence in these threads:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/27
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/04
-1 Troll. Mods, this guy made another comment here: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=122123&
Way to overreact. I read that as he was just poking fun :)
Media Streaming for Dummies? Television!
During the summer I like to camp out instead of live in an apartment. I hook up my laptop to my CDMA cell phone and read /. all the time!
I meta-mod all positive moderation Unfair, because it's abuse of the system.
:P
Ha, I like that! A spin on the sigs that say "I metamod all negative moderation Unfair because I want everyone to have to read 70 comments at a threshold of 5!"
I feel sorry for your websites...and your clients, if you still have any.
Woah, that link crashes my Firebird! That's a first!
Only when JavaScript is enabled...hmm. Where do I go to submit this as a bug?
OT I know...
Guests...maybe we should treat [b]guests[b/] with some respect? Or else give them a different name, like...intruders? :-P
Well, here's one someone posted here on /. a while back:
http://theory.cs.iitm.ernet.in/~arvindn/pi/
I've tried it, and it probably would increase memorization ability, but I'm actually too lazy and busy to keep it up.
Here is zipped copy of the entire thing, including a fix of page 16 (+ links) mentioned by another /.'er below. I wanted a personal copy, figured I would offer it to anyone else who wanted to keep this excellent site...
It works for me in Firefox on 7 different computers. Using the link I gave, try uninstalling and reinstalling the extension. Maybe even the whole browser. Hope you can get it working...
You are aware of the Flash Click to View plugin? Great at keeping those flash ads at bay :)
lol...I think a broke a record for not reading the article. Too often the articles aren't worth reading.
:-P
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