Funny you should mention deer. Reindeer herders in Lapland have taken to spray-painting the antlers of their herds with reflective paint to cut down on the amount of roadkill:
The ones here are much the same: They won't see you reading or typing, so you get plunged into darkness... then just as you get used to it, someone walks past your door, and of course the sensors see that. Everyone hates the damn things, but it's the law (or so the people who'd have to pay for putting real switches in tell us). Not long after moving into my office here, I taped a coffee cup over the sensor and "borrowed" a desk lamp. It annoys Facilities no end, which makes us even. Dippy bird would have been funnier though.
Meanwhile, in the toilets - which spend a lot of time unoccupied, and where you don't want anyone to touch anything if you can help it - we have real light switches. Even the individual cubicles have full-height walls and individual light switches. And yes, those lights regularly stay on all weekend...
Just watch, the evaluation criteria will be designed to have the F-35 come out on top, even though it lacks the armor of the Warthog, which not only jeopardizes the crew but the astronomically expensive asset as well.
From TFA:
"We're looking at all the missions and where it would make sense to do comparison testing and where it wouldn't, and we're going to be working with the services to develop that plan."
In other words, that's exactly what will happen; they just need to figure out the best way to rig this in the shiny new thing's favour.
There are other -- probably cheaper -- solutions for local storage than batteries. A couple of off-the-cuff examples: lifting a very large weight with your excess electricity, then running a generator with it during peak loads or periods. (Did I say VERY large weight?)
Yeah, I remember that one. The petrol in station was way the hell out in the middle of nowhere (for the UK, anyway), and was already on the expensive side as a result. The owner said that he wasn't profiteering, rather it was about conserving what little they had. Until they could get another delivery, he wanted to ensure that anyone who wasn't desperate didn't stop there, and anyone who was only bought enough to get them to civilisation.
Made sense to me. Didn't make sense to the Daily Mail, of course.
the annoyance of the lights turning off all the time because occupancy sensors suck
...which is why the one in my office has a paper coffee-cup duct-taped over it and I bought a small desk lamp with an old-school switch. All the offices here have these sensors. But all the toilets, where you don't want to touch anything, have wall switches - even in the individual cubicles.
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Funny you should mention deer. Reindeer herders in Lapland have taken to spray-painting the antlers of their herds with reflective paint to cut down on the amount of roadkill:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-...
I spoke to a guy up in Rovaniemi who looks after some. He described them as "terminally stupid".
You could do it the Finnish way, where stacking them to dry is also putting them away.
Sneaky bastard, that Nemo.
Just had to get the "ZOMG TWO nuclear power stations had to do a routine thing and we're all gonna die" angle in.
"We have not been instructed by HM Government to put any back doors in our software."
More likely than not most likely!
You need to hook it up to an e-meter.
The ones here are much the same: They won't see you reading or typing, so you get plunged into darkness... then just as you get used to it, someone walks past your door, and of course the sensors see that. Everyone hates the damn things, but it's the law (or so the people who'd have to pay for putting real switches in tell us). Not long after moving into my office here, I taped a coffee cup over the sensor and "borrowed" a desk lamp. It annoys Facilities no end, which makes us even. Dippy bird would have been funnier though.
Meanwhile, in the toilets - which spend a lot of time unoccupied, and where you don't want anyone to touch anything if you can help it - we have real light switches. Even the individual cubicles have full-height walls and individual light switches. And yes, those lights regularly stay on all weekend...
...this Slashdot Paid Posts crap?
August 12th: Test Subject 2 appears to have cooked. Another 9-month sabbatical, damn it.
From TFA:
"We're looking at all the missions and where it would make sense to do comparison testing and where it wouldn't, and we're going to be working with the services to develop that plan."
In other words, that's exactly what will happen; they just need to figure out the best way to rig this in the shiny new thing's favour.
I'd rather click this stale news than the fresh fembait elsewhere on the front page.
Batteries are heavy. Why not do both?
I have had it with these motherf*cking ads on this motherf*cking site!
Everyone knows they were handed down from on high to The Steve on stone tab^WiPads.
All right then, let's see you do better.
It'll land on two of them if the gear won't drop.
So I can power the sensors for my smart home that doesn't need switches, by the pressure of my finger on a switch? I'll take a dozen!
...find fields of gold?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Slashdotters rushing to post that this is lame and/or they did it 20 years ago.
It did cross my mind when there was shepherd's pie on the menu last week...By the time I got there, though, they'd run out of shepherds.
My office building is next to the pathology department, and I can't go to lunch without seeing a hearse loading or unloading.
Yeah, I remember that one. The petrol in station was way the hell out in the middle of nowhere (for the UK, anyway), and was already on the expensive side as a result. The owner said that he wasn't profiteering, rather it was about conserving what little they had. Until they could get another delivery, he wanted to ensure that anyone who wasn't desperate didn't stop there, and anyone who was only bought enough to get them to civilisation.
Made sense to me. Didn't make sense to the Daily Mail, of course.
Seriously, I'm getting tired of the endless stream of apps.
There's a nap for that.
the annoyance of the lights turning off all the time because occupancy sensors suck
...which is why the one in my office has a paper coffee-cup duct-taped over it and I bought a small desk lamp with an old-school switch. All the offices here have these sensors. But all the toilets, where you don't want to touch anything, have wall switches - even in the individual cubicles.