After running a few queries (results below,) my conclusion is that the "Love Calculator" suffers from some bad rounding or something. It acutally manages to produce less accurate results than a random number generator.
Dr. Love thinks that a relationship between IBM and Microsoft has a reasonable chance of working out, but on the other hand, it might not. Your relationship may suffer good and bad times. If things might not be working out as you would like them to, do not hesitate to talk about it with the person involved. Spend time together, talk with each other.
The chance of a relationship working out between Slashdot and Beowulf Clusters is not very big
Dr. Love thinks that a relationship between Windows and a rabid monkey has a very good chance of being successful, but this doesn't mean that you don't have to work on the relationship. Remember that every relationship needs spending time together, talking with each other etc. (76%)
If the were going to use XML as the native document format, I'd be impressed. But adding it as an export format that most users probably won't even notice unless they actively look for it? That's not exactly what I call embracing the standard.
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(Washington, DC.) In a move aimed at preventing important documents from being delivered reliably in a timely fashion, the US Postal Service today announced its planned acquisition of FedEx Corp. "We can't have people denying us the opportunity to lose all of their mail," a secret internal memo from the Postmaster General explained.
In a separate statement, the Postal Service continued its campaign to educate the public on the dangers of utilizing open-box pizza delivery services. "Pizza shipped in an unsealed box," so the Postal Service, "is an inherently insecure and potentially dangerous solution."
If I had a karma point for every time there was a rumor about someone making a takeover bid for Borland, I'd have achieved total enlightenment by now.
Remember 10 years ago, when we were sure Novell would follow its purchase of DR DOS with a takeover of Borland and proceed to smash Microsoft into, well, micro-bits?
Then there was the time Old Lou's Big Blue was about to announce the purchase of Novell and Borland in the same press release. (At the time, Novell still owned Unix and everyone knew that Windows didn't stand a chance against OS/2.)
Of all the many rumors, the only one that turned out to be true was the Corel deal - and even that ultimately didn't materialize.
Actually, the switching cycle for light bulb testing is defined in an ISO standard.
if you plan to leave a room for fifteen minutes, unless the power costs are very high, you should leave the light on (I don't have hard numbers to back this up -- but there *is* a cost savings relationship in there somewhere
Agreed, but without having exact figures available on the monetary value of filament damage caused by one switch cycle, I'd guess that the point of equality lies in the single-digit second range. Of course, the weather would significantly affect the calculation: during air conditioning season, there is an additional cost to remove the waste heat, while during heating season it isn't really wasted at all (and if your home is electrically heated, it is theoretically optimal to leave all your lights on all winter.)
the power co's can squeeze through the tough times
From what I understand, the Ontario provincial gov't is making up the difference between the (unregulated) wholesale price and the retail price cap. So it's not the power companies that are getting screwed in the deal, but Ontario tax payers who use less electricity than their neighbors.
A long, long time ago in 8th grade English class, I was called upon to read aloud the next paragraph from the book we all had before us. I, having my mind on tracking down a bug in my latest ZX-80 BASIC program, proceeded to misread something about "plankton and other orgasms." Then came the embarassing part: the teacher asked whether everyone knew what a Freudian Slip is and, when some of the class shook their heads, went into a lenghty explanation which referred repeatedly to my example.
Even so, the lifetime power consumption of an 100W bulb (250kW) is costing you C$10.75 - are you seriously suggesting that that's negligable compared to what you paid for the bulb itself? Let me know, I can mail you some lightbulbs from the US...how many 100W bulbs do you want for one of those CANDUs? I've always wanted to have my own nuclear power station, but the American designs are all too big to fit in my garage.
Witness the fact that people who are insistent on turning lights on and off all the time are often buying bulbs, whereas I've only used 3 new ones in one room (with 8 incandescents total) over the past 3 years.
Here's an offer: I will pay for all of your lightbulb needs for the next year if you'll pay my electric bill during the same time.
they always seem to think more about their electric bill (which is low in comparison)
Either you live on a planet with very different prices, or you are very badly misinformed. Here in the northeastern US, we pay 14.6 cents for a kWh and lightbulbs are two for 99 cents.
So it takes just under 34 hours for a 100 watt lightbulb to consume its own cost in electricity. Over its estimated lifetime of 2500 on-hours, it will consume $36.50 worth of electricity.
This is the only P2P network I know of where the software's authors are accountable for all the network's contents. Users who share copyrighted works without authorization will be banned.
Not sure how they came up with that figure, but I'd have to say it's way off. Using every last pixel to encode a bitstream, you can squeeze more data onto a pigeonload of microfilm than a dial-up modem can carry in a week. You could do even better by coding a bitstream into a crystal lattice on the molecular level. (Using silicon (Si28=0, Si29=1) as an example, one gram would contain over 2*10^22 bits or about 20 billion terabytes.)
The battery does not need much capacity, because it only has to supply power for a second or so, until the fuel cell is at full power.
In the U.S., there are AFAIK no tax incentives for products such as this, although there is a significant tax incentive to buy fuel cell vehicles.
There are also various government incentives to operate fuel cell power plants, depending on state and locality. Usually this take the form of simplified regulatory approval, rather than tax savings.
That article is about about phosphoric acid fuel cells. That is a mature technology that's been in commercial use for over a decade. It runs at a high temperature, does not scale well below a quarter megawatt and takes time to start up. They compete with gas turbines.
PEM fuel cells are just beginning to appear in commercial products.
They cost more per kilowatt, but can be scaled down to the size of a laptop battery and can go from zero to full power in a fraction of a second. They compete with batteries and small internal combustion engines, mainly in mobile applications.
See also this overview of fuel cell technologies
and this table.
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If all the new installs produced documents the old installs couldn't read, they simply would never upgrade.
You mean in the same way people never upgraded to Word for Windows because Word for DOS can't read the new file format?
And when did "schema" become singular, anyhow?
Always has been, or at least since the time of Plato (around 2300 years ago.)
The plural of schema is schemata, akin to stigma / stigmata. Both are originally ancient Greek, not Latin as one might think.
After running a few queries (results below,) my conclusion is that the "Love Calculator" suffers from some bad rounding or something. It acutally manages to produce less accurate results than a random number generator.
o soft+Office&name2=a+retarded+sewer+rat
Dr. Love thinks that a relationship between IBM and Microsoft has a reasonable chance of working out, but on the other hand, it might not. Your relationship may suffer good and bad times. If things might not be working out as you would like them to, do not hesitate to talk about it with the person involved. Spend time together, talk with each other.
The chance of a relationship working out between Slashdot and Beowulf Clusters is not very big
Dr. Love thinks that a relationship between Windows and a rabid monkey has a very good chance of being successful, but this doesn't mean that you don't have to work on the relationship. Remember that every relationship needs spending time together, talking with each other etc. (76%)
Also, for some reason the following query bugs out completely:
http://www.lovecalculator.com/love.php?name1=Micr
If the were going to use XML as the native document format, I'd be impressed. But adding it as an export format that most users probably won't even notice unless they actively look for it? That's not exactly what I call embracing the standard.
...not as in can of worms.
In other words they're involuntarily providing the bare minimum of interoperability that the marketplace demands. News for nerds to yawn at.
Does it shock you that six day old comments sometimes contain old news? Or do you have another point that I'm missing?
Another recent eBay fraud scheme: ebayupdates.com (Score:2, Informative)
by mkweise (629582) on Thursday December 12, @06:26PM
eBay Customers Targetted by Credit Card Scam
Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday December 13, @04:37AM
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There's a story in today's Times of India on a newly uncovered scheme involving this fake ebay site.
IBM refuted reports that it was phasing out its OS/2 operating system, saying the company is merely changing the manner in which it distributes its software.
(Washington, DC.) In a move aimed at preventing important documents from being delivered reliably in a timely fashion, the US Postal Service today announced its planned acquisition of FedEx Corp. "We can't have people denying us the opportunity to lose all of their mail," a secret internal memo from the Postmaster General explained.
In a separate statement, the Postal Service continued its campaign to educate the public on the dangers of utilizing open-box pizza delivery services. "Pizza shipped in an unsealed box," so the Postal Service, "is an inherently insecure and potentially dangerous solution."
If I had a karma point for every time there was a rumor about someone making a takeover bid for Borland, I'd have achieved total enlightenment by now.
Remember 10 years ago, when we were sure Novell would follow its purchase of DR DOS with a takeover of Borland and proceed to smash Microsoft into, well, micro-bits?
Then there was the time Old Lou's Big Blue was about to announce the purchase of Novell and Borland in the same press release. (At the time, Novell still owned Unix and everyone knew that Windows didn't stand a chance against OS/2.)
Of all the many rumors, the only one that turned out to be true was the Corel deal - and even that ultimately didn't materialize.
since the "hours" rating is more of a guess
Actually, the switching cycle for light bulb testing is defined in an ISO standard.
if you plan to leave a room for fifteen minutes, unless the power costs are very high, you should leave the light on (I don't have hard numbers to back this up -- but there *is* a cost savings relationship in there somewhere
Agreed, but without having exact figures available on the monetary value of filament damage caused by one switch cycle, I'd guess that the point of equality lies in the single-digit second range. Of course, the weather would significantly affect the calculation: during air conditioning season, there is an additional cost to remove the waste heat, while during heating season it isn't really wasted at all (and if your home is electrically heated, it is theoretically optimal to leave all your lights on all winter.)
the power co's can squeeze through the tough times
From what I understand, the Ontario provincial gov't is making up the difference between the (unregulated) wholesale price and the retail price cap. So it's not the power companies that are getting screwed in the deal, but Ontario tax payers who use less electricity than their neighbors.
A long, long time ago in 8th grade English class, I was called upon to read aloud the next paragraph from the book we all had before us. I, having my mind on tracking down a bug in my latest ZX-80 BASIC program, proceeded to misread something about "plankton and other orgasms." Then came the embarassing part: the teacher asked whether everyone knew what a Freudian Slip is and, when some of the class shook their heads, went into a lenghty explanation which referred repeatedly to my example.
Get over it, karma is by definition infallible and supremely just. It all works out perfectly in the end.
The same can be said of humanity as a whole.
When will Windows follow?
Even so, the lifetime power consumption of an 100W bulb (250kW) is costing you C$10.75 - are you seriously suggesting that that's negligable compared to what you paid for the bulb itself? Let me know, I can mail you some lightbulbs from the US...how many 100W bulbs do you want for one of those CANDUs? I've always wanted to have my own nuclear power station, but the American designs are all too big to fit in my garage.
Meanwhile, some of your countrymen are concerned that Price Caps on Ontario Electricity Could Mean Replay of California's Electricity Crisis. Good luck with that...
Witness the fact that people who are insistent on turning lights on and off all the time are often buying bulbs, whereas I've only used 3 new ones in one room (with 8 incandescents total) over the past 3 years.
Here's an offer: I will pay for all of your lightbulb needs for the next year if you'll pay my electric bill during the same time.
they always seem to think more about their electric bill (which is low in comparison)
Either you live on a planet with very different prices, or you are very badly misinformed. Here in the northeastern US, we pay 14.6 cents for a kWh and lightbulbs are two for 99 cents.
So it takes just under 34 hours for a 100 watt lightbulb to consume its own cost in electricity. Over its estimated lifetime of 2500 on-hours, it will consume $36.50 worth of electricity.
Sure, that's easy:
Furthur is a P2P file sharing network with 100% legimimate content. Currently the network's content (over 4TB) consits of music recordings that have been specifically authorized for free distribution by the artists.
This is the only P2P network I know of where the software's authors are accountable for all the network's contents. Users who share copyrighted works without authorization will be banned.
Well, then it was wrong of the article's author to put it in a table comparing it to the maximum theoretical bandwidths of other technologies.
Pigeon: 0.08bps
Not sure how they came up with that figure, but I'd have to say it's way off. Using every last pixel to encode a bitstream, you can squeeze more data onto a pigeonload of microfilm than a dial-up modem can carry in a week. You could do even better by coding a bitstream into a crystal lattice on the molecular level. (Using silicon (Si28=0, Si29=1) as an example, one gram would contain over 2*10^22 bits or about 20 billion terabytes.)
The battery does not need much capacity, because it only has to supply power for a second or so, until the fuel cell is at full power.
In the U.S., there are AFAIK no tax incentives for products such as this, although there is a significant tax incentive to buy fuel cell vehicles.
There are also various government incentives to operate fuel cell power plants, depending on state and locality. Usually this take the form of simplified regulatory approval, rather than tax savings.
That article is about about phosphoric acid fuel cells. That is a mature technology that's been in commercial use for over a decade. It runs at a high temperature, does not scale well below a quarter megawatt and takes time to start up. They compete with gas turbines.
PEM fuel cells are just beginning to appear in commercial products. They cost more per kilowatt, but can be scaled down to the size of a laptop battery and can go from zero to full power in a fraction of a second. They compete with batteries and small internal combustion engines, mainly in mobile applications.
See also this overview of fuel cell technologies and this table.