The same energy is going in. The wind is blowing. If you put out 50% more power, you're both more efficient at converting the wind energy into power AND you're still increasing the power output.
They're that efficient at constant speeds. Too bad the wind isn't constant speed. These generators ARE more efficient over variable speeds, as in, they convert more of the total wind energy the blades harness into electrical energy than other designs. Standard designs can't harness the extra energy when the wind is blowing harder than their top efficiency speed, and they provide to much resistance to be efficient when the wind is blowing more lightly.
Read it again. If you use a multi-part generator like they're doing, you're effectively "moving" the top speed that the generator is efficient at. A smaller generator (or rather, fewer parts enabled) is more efficient at lower speeds, and so on.
HP is angry that they listened to MS on hardware specs initially, and then MS changed it's mind in backroom deals with Intel, which ultimately convinced people to buy computers that weren't actually ready for Vista. HP got bit hard because they invested in a higher level of hardware than Intel was providing, and all the other manufacturers could undercut it by going with the cheaper stuff leaving HP to scramble.
Just because it wasn't necessarily illegal to screw over HP like that doesn't mean HP has any less right to be angry at backroom deals.
Because HP sold machines that weren't based on the 915 because they were told that it wouldn't be Vista capable, and then lost a lot of business they would have otherwise had because Microsoft changed their mind in a backroom deal that ended up harming consumers overall by encouraging them to buy lower-spec machines that actually couldn't run Vista?
When will this nature versus nurture crap stop? How many anecdotes do we need?
Where do tomboys come from? Do they just ignore culture around them and take cues only from their father figures? How about effeminate boys? The fact is, it's a LOT nature. There's definitely a bit of nurture, but just like you gravitate to (presumably, due to slashdot) technological interests, people gravitate to different things. And a lot of that is influenced by their gender. Even though my wife is a computer programmer too, she still approaches problems differently than I do. And that's not a bad thing.
Completely anecdotal: my wife has a CS degree. And she still doesn't care as much about the electronics and such as I do. I can't get her excited about upgrading the media center PC (damnit). She is a good programmer, but that's all the further interest she has in it.
On the other hand, the Folding @ Home project, which is actually doing something useful with all those cycles, has broken the PetaFLOP mark, and did so over a year ago.
Funny... I do all that monitor switching stuff perfectly fine on Linux. xrandr is awesome, if not fully integrated. I had to write a script to get the monitor switching to work right, but now it actually works the same time, every time. You should see the contortions that happen when people try to do the same stuff on Windows.
And for the bluetooth, it was easier getting my machine to lock when my phone gets away from the box and use my phone as a bluetooth modem in Ubuntu than it was under Windows.
You might give Linux another chance... this has been working since at least Ubuntu 8.04 on my Lenovo T61.
In the same field, sure. There's no reasonable way for you to separate your insider knowledge from your day job from your "hobby" stuff. But if I work as a web designer during the day, my employer insisting they own some, say, kernel code I write is ludicrous, and I hope it would be laughed out of court, just as an employer insisting that they own part of my house since I did work on it while employed by them.
Just because you sign a contract doesn't mean you can be legally held to it. You can't be legally held to kill someone after signing a contract to carry out murder.
Employers may think that they have dominion over an employee's life simply because they're paying them, but they actually don't. If they aren't directly paying you for the work, there's a reasonable expectation that it is yours. Does the company also own part of your house if you did repairs on it yourself?
I've had companies do that, but they usually go change the price right afterwards. I would have walked out if they didn't give me the product at the price (buying stuff takes two parties to agree to the price), but since they did that, they earned a much more regular customer. Service matters.
Because, you know, 64bit is better and faster for pretty much everything except Flash, especially if you have 4GB or more of RAM (a lot of people do). Let's just not use 64bit because Adobe hasn't blessed it yet.
Most distro's don't ship with closed source software in the first place, and the only reason to run a 32bit browser or the 32bit nspluginwrapper is to get flash, so there is no reason for including a 32bit compatibility layer for only closed-source software. There are some distros that make it very easy to install, like Ubuntu, but it's not default because it's against the basic ideology of open-source, and it's one more thing that people will complain of that "bloats" the system.
64bit FreeBSD users and devs are a much smaller community than 64bit Linux users and devs. Gotta make the cutoff somewhere, and I'd bet that Adobe will get much better feedback from a larger group of people with Linux, from a tech-savvy audience that will actually try beta versions in large numbers. I know I'm already running it, and it's been great so far, especially compared to the 32bit wrapped version.
And if you use Konqueror, it directly calls the Java executable for plugins, so 64bit Java has worked as a "plugin" for quite a while in KDE. Since there are only a few Java plugin sites around the web, I'm happy with just using Konqueror when I actually need to access one on the short term here.
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The same energy is going in. The wind is blowing. If you put out 50% more power, you're both more efficient at converting the wind energy into power AND you're still increasing the power output.
They're that efficient at constant speeds. Too bad the wind isn't constant speed. These generators ARE more efficient over variable speeds, as in, they convert more of the total wind energy the blades harness into electrical energy than other designs. Standard designs can't harness the extra energy when the wind is blowing harder than their top efficiency speed, and they provide to much resistance to be efficient when the wind is blowing more lightly.
If you're getting the same wind power in (by definition you are), and outputting more electrical power, how is that NOT an increase in efficiency?
Wait... so I didn't read this quote in the first paragraph of TFA?
I'm so confused...
Read it again. If you use a multi-part generator like they're doing, you're effectively "moving" the top speed that the generator is efficient at. A smaller generator (or rather, fewer parts enabled) is more efficient at lower speeds, and so on.
Not just birds, bats too. Nice, clean deaths of massive air pressure changes causing their lungs to explode and then bleed to death internally, too.
HP is angry that they listened to MS on hardware specs initially, and then MS changed it's mind in backroom deals with Intel, which ultimately convinced people to buy computers that weren't actually ready for Vista. HP got bit hard because they invested in a higher level of hardware than Intel was providing, and all the other manufacturers could undercut it by going with the cheaper stuff leaving HP to scramble.
Just because it wasn't necessarily illegal to screw over HP like that doesn't mean HP has any less right to be angry at backroom deals.
Because HP sold machines that weren't based on the 915 because they were told that it wouldn't be Vista capable, and then lost a lot of business they would have otherwise had because Microsoft changed their mind in a backroom deal that ended up harming consumers overall by encouraging them to buy lower-spec machines that actually couldn't run Vista?
I don't hate Linux. But I can also change it if I want to... that's the big thing that keeps annoyance from boiling over into hate ;)
Really? The median salary of an RN in the US is $60K. That's better than many programmers make. I call bullshit.
When will this nature versus nurture crap stop? How many anecdotes do we need?
Where do tomboys come from? Do they just ignore culture around them and take cues only from their father figures? How about effeminate boys? The fact is, it's a LOT nature. There's definitely a bit of nurture, but just like you gravitate to (presumably, due to slashdot) technological interests, people gravitate to different things. And a lot of that is influenced by their gender. Even though my wife is a computer programmer too, she still approaches problems differently than I do. And that's not a bad thing.
Completely anecdotal: my wife has a CS degree. And she still doesn't care as much about the electronics and such as I do. I can't get her excited about upgrading the media center PC (damnit). She is a good programmer, but that's all the further interest she has in it.
One point twenty one jiggawatts!?! That'd take a lightning strike! They don't have many of those on Mars... or clock towers, for that matter.
On the other hand, the Folding @ Home project, which is actually doing something useful with all those cycles, has broken the PetaFLOP mark, and did so over a year ago.
Funny... I do all that monitor switching stuff perfectly fine on Linux. xrandr is awesome, if not fully integrated. I had to write a script to get the monitor switching to work right, but now it actually works the same time, every time. You should see the contortions that happen when people try to do the same stuff on Windows.
And for the bluetooth, it was easier getting my machine to lock when my phone gets away from the box and use my phone as a bluetooth modem in Ubuntu than it was under Windows.
You might give Linux another chance... this has been working since at least Ubuntu 8.04 on my Lenovo T61.
In the same field, sure. There's no reasonable way for you to separate your insider knowledge from your day job from your "hobby" stuff. But if I work as a web designer during the day, my employer insisting they own some, say, kernel code I write is ludicrous, and I hope it would be laughed out of court, just as an employer insisting that they own part of my house since I did work on it while employed by them.
Just because you sign a contract doesn't mean you can be legally held to it. You can't be legally held to kill someone after signing a contract to carry out murder.
Employers may think that they have dominion over an employee's life simply because they're paying them, but they actually don't. If they aren't directly paying you for the work, there's a reasonable expectation that it is yours. Does the company also own part of your house if you did repairs on it yourself?
How do you pronounce that? "Weak-Two"? "Wiktu"? "Sparky"?
I've had companies do that, but they usually go change the price right afterwards. I would have walked out if they didn't give me the product at the price (buying stuff takes two parties to agree to the price), but since they did that, they earned a much more regular customer. Service matters.
Whoops... accidentally clicked "troll" rather than "interesting". Posting to undo it :) Sorry!
ssh -X is your friend. Why install an X server on a machine that'll never use it?
Because, you know, 64bit is better and faster for pretty much everything except Flash, especially if you have 4GB or more of RAM (a lot of people do). Let's just not use 64bit because Adobe hasn't blessed it yet.
Most distro's don't ship with closed source software in the first place, and the only reason to run a 32bit browser or the 32bit nspluginwrapper is to get flash, so there is no reason for including a 32bit compatibility layer for only closed-source software. There are some distros that make it very easy to install, like Ubuntu, but it's not default because it's against the basic ideology of open-source, and it's one more thing that people will complain of that "bloats" the system.
64bit FreeBSD users and devs are a much smaller community than 64bit Linux users and devs. Gotta make the cutoff somewhere, and I'd bet that Adobe will get much better feedback from a larger group of people with Linux, from a tech-savvy audience that will actually try beta versions in large numbers. I know I'm already running it, and it's been great so far, especially compared to the 32bit wrapped version.
And if you use Konqueror, it directly calls the Java executable for plugins, so 64bit Java has worked as a "plugin" for quite a while in KDE. Since there are only a few Java plugin sites around the web, I'm happy with just using Konqueror when I actually need to access one on the short term here.