My 16m^2 room with two exterior walls and under the roof used to warm up to around 28 degrees Celsius when I left my Intel P4 1,8 GHz Northwood computer running. Whereas it went down to 16 degrees without the computer running. 200~300 watts _do_ make a difference!
The notion of "bad" and "good" genetic material and the proposal that people with bad genetic material should not be allowed to breed seems reminiscent of the policies of the Third Reich. People who were seen as unworthy to live were put into concentration camps, abused in dubious medical experiments, sterilized and eventually killed. I dearly hope that you don't want this to happen in modern societies and that you might eventually realize that the notion of "good" and "bad" genetic material is fundamentally flawed.
I don't know anything better, but I am not at all interested in financial quotes-except for currency exchange rates. As there are a lot of tech-savvy professionals working the world's stock exchanges, I think that there might be services (free or not free) that are more sophisticated and geared towards this group of users.
Look at the number of services that Yahoo is offering. They are neither the best provider for financial quotes nor the best webmail service, but they're still very popular and make money from advertising. They just need to be very good in one area (e.g. search) and because of the portal style the other areas of the site will also get traffic. After all, Google makes money from advertising.
Will IBM realize whom to sell Tablets?
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I hope IBM will make Tablet PCs useful for college students, for the education market and for artists. Current Tablets are not very attractive because of
short battery life (if you're going to use your tablet for classes, you need more than 2 hours--anything over 4 hours would be best)
high price tags
Tablets are currently targeted at executives, but there are surely a lot of students, graphics freelancers etc. around who would possibly buy a Tablet if it were useful and affordable.
nice idea, but imagine how many "washing machines" will be roaming the streets of larger cities at night, with a knife or a gun in their pocket? you might as well have the machine check for pieces of metal-that way you'll also catch the occasional coin that might ruin the pump. having the machine differentiate between coins and buttons will be a bit tricky.
The key phrase in the article is "better business model" = "way to make as much money as possible without being forced out of the market by competitors"
You need to mention that the James Webb Space Telescope will be stationed at a Lagrange point, out of reach for manned service missions. Considering that Hubble needed to be serviced in order to function properly, the JWST is a great if it works, but it's not guaranteed to work. If I were NASA, I'd rather risk having to sustain two working space telescopes than having none and no budget for another try.
Where is the interesting technical or scientific news in that story? Didn't they know that electromagnetic waves travel at light speed and that there is no such thing as an "ether"?
If you like to compare it to the phone system...
I think it would rather be like charging nothing for calls to the phone provider's hotline than "long distance" versus local. It would certainly put Aon TV at an advantage over other web TV services. I don't know where they meter the traffic-maybe it is even easier not to charge for web TV content if it is distributed in the way I outlined.
I can't say whether the costly bottleneck is the transatlantic connection or the regional connections. If they run a reasonably successful web TV service, I think they cannot afford serving everyone over regional connections, but must think about (transparently) mirroring the content locally.
I suppose Telekom Austria will eventually exempt traffic for their web TV services from the monthly limit, as it is within their network. They could distribute it to a number of servers across the country first and then distribute it locally to clients. I read that this has been done by webfreetv.com during the dotcom bubble (they were producing web TV for the masses, but are now pursuing a different business model).
A lot of VWs nowadays have an outlet for the air conditioning system in the glovebox, so that you could put your drinks in there and they stay cool in summer. I assume he'll switch on the AC system when it's hot and within a few minutes all the components will be at operating temperature. Of course, they get baked or frozen when the car is not in use.
A couple of weeks ago I saw an ATM that had crashed. It was running Netscape on some version of Windows. Surely enough, it was made by the same manufacturer who f***ed up US voting machines. I do have some pictures if anyone is interested.
This is -at most- a work in progress. The phone looks as if it were just a computer graphic(look at the large image). The firm is just being founded. Everything is copyright 2005 only. The features look as if they were some developer's dream.
Yes, there are more features, but there are more inexperienced users who haven't heard about etiquette and rules than on Usenet. Forums are also at the mercy of the site owner, they may disappear instantly. While there may be hundreds of forums for a particular topic, there are usually just a few newsgroups-Usenet is better structured.
Thanks for your help. I probably won't be spending a lot of time outside urban areas-I'll be at the Australian National University most of the time.
Looking at one of my cellphone bills: 25 minutes to fixed lines 53 minutes to mobile phones in other networks 24 minutes to mobiles in the same network (These values are calculated from the connection fees. My provider charges me for every 30 seconds. The total time of calls per month is less than above.)
I expect the call volume to drop to about 80%. To call home (Austria), I am looking at Skype and SIP and I'll have people call me (there is a firm called TeleDiscount which offers calls to Australian mobiles for 0.182 Euros per minute). I don't think I will make a lot of international calls, so I should be fine with the type of prepaid/plan you'd recommend to an Australian (with the exception that the contract can't last for longer than 6 months).
It is good to hear that there is no charge for incoming calls.
I'll be going to Canberra for half a year to study (July-December). Could slashdot readers "down under" recommend a (mobile?) phone carrier and option that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? I have an unlocked GSM 900/1800 phone that I could bring.
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My 16m^2 room with two exterior walls and under the roof used to warm up to around 28 degrees Celsius when I left my Intel P4 1,8 GHz Northwood computer running. Whereas it went down to 16 degrees without the computer running.
200~300 watts _do_ make a difference!
Yep, works fine for me.
The notion of "bad" and "good" genetic material and the proposal that people with bad genetic material should not be allowed to breed seems reminiscent of the policies of the Third Reich. People who were seen as unworthy to live were put into concentration camps, abused in dubious medical experiments, sterilized and eventually killed.
I dearly hope that you don't want this to happen in modern societies and that you might eventually realize that the notion of "good" and "bad" genetic material is fundamentally flawed.
I don't know anything better, but I am not at all interested in financial quotes-except for currency exchange rates. As there are a lot of tech-savvy professionals working the world's stock exchanges, I think that there might be services (free or not free) that are more sophisticated and geared towards this group of users.
Look at the number of services that Yahoo is offering. They are neither the best provider for financial quotes nor the best webmail service, but they're still very popular and make money from advertising. They just need to be very good in one area (e.g. search) and because of the portal style the other areas of the site will also get traffic. After all, Google makes money from advertising.
I hope IBM will make Tablet PCs useful for college students, for the education market and for artists.
Current Tablets are not very attractive because of
- short battery life (if you're going to use your tablet for classes, you need more than 2 hours--anything over 4 hours would be best)
- high price tags
Tablets are currently targeted at executives, but there are surely a lot of students, graphics freelancers etc. around who would possibly buy a Tablet if it were useful and affordable.READ MY POST. I was referring to the map and not to the satellite imagery. Though unrelated to the parent post, your post is nevertheless interesting.
When zooming in, the "Gaza Strip" and the "West Bank" are labelled first. The label "Israel" does not appear unless one zooms further in.
nice idea, but imagine how many "washing machines" will be roaming the streets of larger cities at night, with a knife or a gun in their pocket? you might as well have the machine check for pieces of metal-that way you'll also catch the occasional coin that might ruin the pump. having the machine differentiate between coins and buttons will be a bit tricky.
The key phrase in the article is "better business model" = "way to make as much money as possible without being forced out of the market by competitors"
You need to mention that the James Webb Space Telescope will be stationed at a Lagrange point, out of reach for manned service missions. Considering that Hubble needed to be serviced in order to function properly, the JWST is a great if it works, but it's not guaranteed to work. If I were NASA, I'd rather risk having to sustain two working space telescopes than having none and no budget for another try.
Where is the interesting technical or scientific news in that story? Didn't they know that electromagnetic waves travel at light speed and that there is no such thing as an "ether"?
I think it would rather be like charging nothing for calls to the phone provider's hotline than "long distance" versus local. It would certainly put Aon TV at an advantage over other web TV services. I don't know where they meter the traffic-maybe it is even easier not to charge for web TV content if it is distributed in the way I outlined.
I can't say whether the costly bottleneck is the transatlantic connection or the regional connections. If they run a reasonably successful web TV service, I think they cannot afford serving everyone over regional connections, but must think about (transparently) mirroring the content locally.
I suppose Telekom Austria will eventually exempt traffic for their web TV services from the monthly limit, as it is within their network. They could distribute it to a number of servers across the country first and then distribute it locally to clients. I read that this has been done by webfreetv.com during the dotcom bubble (they were producing web TV for the masses, but are now pursuing a different business model).
happy easter!
Maybe this needs some clarification: ...
"good" in this particular case should mean "sells well", "widely used",
A lot of VWs nowadays have an outlet for the air conditioning system in the glovebox, so that you could put your drinks in there and they stay cool in summer. I assume he'll switch on the AC system when it's hot and within a few minutes all the components will be at operating temperature.
Of course, they get baked or frozen when the car is not in use.
Only good products get copied over and over.
just look here: http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0203763/atm.html
not necessarily-but see for yourself: http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0203763/atm.html
OK guys, it seems as if a lot of people are interested in the pictures, so I put them online.
A couple of weeks ago I saw an ATM that had crashed. It was running Netscape on some version of Windows.
Surely enough, it was made by the same manufacturer who f***ed up US voting machines. I do have some pictures if anyone is interested.
This is -at most- a work in progress. The phone looks as if it were just a computer graphic(look at the large image). The firm is just being founded. Everything is copyright 2005 only. The features look as if they were some developer's dream.
Yes, there are more features, but there are more inexperienced users who haven't heard about etiquette and rules than on Usenet. Forums are also at the mercy of the site owner, they may disappear instantly. While there may be hundreds of forums for a particular topic, there are usually just a few newsgroups-Usenet is better structured.
Thanks for your help. I probably won't be spending a lot of time outside urban areas-I'll be at the Australian National University most of the time.
Looking at one of my cellphone bills:
25 minutes to fixed lines
53 minutes to mobile phones in other networks
24 minutes to mobiles in the same network
(These values are calculated from the connection fees. My provider charges me for every 30 seconds. The total time of calls per month is less than above.)
I expect the call volume to drop to about 80%. To call home (Austria), I am looking at Skype and SIP and I'll have people call me (there is a firm called TeleDiscount which offers calls to Australian mobiles for 0.182 Euros per minute). I don't think I will make a lot of international calls, so I should be fine with the type of prepaid/plan you'd recommend to an Australian (with the exception that the contract can't last for longer than 6 months).
It is good to hear that there is no charge for incoming calls.
I'll be going to Canberra for half a year to study (July-December). Could slashdot readers "down under" recommend a (mobile?) phone carrier and option that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? I have an unlocked GSM 900/1800 phone that I could bring.