Sounds like an opportunity for a kit. Apple could sell (service-shop installed, of course) a new cover with an iPod dock installed to replace the old cover. The kit would include a new connector with the appropriate pins soldered on for $75 plus installation cost (another $75, I'm sure).
I suspect I'd be interested, too, though I'm not sure just how much.
I live in Portland, and, per the Insolation Map linked above, we get about 4 kWh/m^2/day on average. If you figure on using a twelve (3x4) square meter panel, that's 48 kWh/day. At 12% efficiency, you're at 5.76 kWh/day of actual generated electricity.
Since it's an average, you can figure on that output year 'round. So, 5.76 * 365 days is 2102.4 kWh/year. At $0.09 per kWh (the going rate for electricity here), that's $189.22 per year of payback if you sold every bit of generation back to the power company.
Since we don't know how much the 10x14 foot panel generates, it's hard to estimate what one might cost. But if it was REALLY CHEAP at US$2000, it would take you over ten years to pay back the cost of the panel. Ten years is (AFAIK) longer than the typical lifespan of your average solar panel.
Having said all that, there are many reasons other than direct cost to have solar power generation, such as being somewhere that grid connectivity isn't available. And, if you're somewhere that the price of electricity is higher that $0.09/kWh, that shifts the numbers, too.
It's great to see new solar technologies coming to fruition. Hopefully this is one to get excited about. It probably isn't, but one can hope.
The blurb seems to indicate that this is a first. If so, I'm really surprised. Many times I've seen dealers pass chips (usually $100 or more) over a scanner that lights up. I assumed that it was checking that the chip was valid, and I guessed that they were using RFID. That's how I would have done it anyway, and I figure that they're AT LEAST as smart as me.
Looking over the rooms on the web site, I'm surprised at the room rates. The small rooms are expensive (start at $349 per night) and the big rooms are relatively cheap (a 1950 sq. ft. suite for $850 per night). Big suites in other casinos are usually a couple thousand a night (I get this by window shopping, believe me).
Not a bad idea. With 20 cases of wine maturing in the basement, it's not going to be too long before I have more than I know what to do with. Scotch, on the other hand, is definitely on my list of favorite potables, and I've never looked at my shelf and said, "Oh, I have too much Scotch." Furthermore, the chance of my palette being able to appreciate anything more expensive than about $35 for a bottle of wine is slim. I can appreciate up to about $100 worth of Scotch, though, and the bottle lasts past one good dinner.
Thanks. I somehow feel like an Italian with a bunch of Lire in my pocket suddenly being introduced to the Euro.
I would be insulted, yes. If someone's accquainted with me enough to want me in their house or business doing computer work for them, then they should know better than think I would drink anything in the fortified wine category beneath Warre's Tawny Port. Anything in the alcoholic Kool-Aid category, as you put it, isn't fit for human consumption. No offense to your tastes and all, but if that's the class of work they're after, they should look for it.
Considering that I make my own (sometimes good, sometimes bad) wine, I'd think that was mighty nice. I consider homemade wine to have a par value of about $10 a bottle with the cork in it. Once the cork comes out, the value varies up and down with quality.
I have noticed the phenomenon you mention, though I would hardly call it "anyone." I suppose I could have elaborated on the details of how a system-based message queuing system is designed to be a lossless, connectionless method for intrasystem messaging, much like a small town post office, where one piece of software delivers a message, often packaged as XML or CSV, and marks it for entry into a particular queue or stack. When other pieces of software are subscribed to the queue in question, they pick up the messages that get registered there. The messages are either destroyed on pick up or stay in the queue, depending on what type the queue is. But all this is just a surface look at how MQs are used and how they work. A layman's introduction, it might be said. It also doesn't cover the fact that they can be used as the back-end for IM systems, if you write the appropriate client software. I was thinking that this person might like to have their choice of in-depth articles to read that would educate them far more than I was willing to in the short time alloted to me for reading Slashdot each day.
But thanks for your concern. I'm done trolling for now, how about you?
I think the point behind AMQ (at least it was heavily-pointed-out in the article) is that it supports bindings for C, C++, C#, Java, etc., etc., etc. ActiveMQ seems to only support bindings for Java.
I usually charge a bottle of wine. That way, people can spend as much on the bottle of wine as they think my service was worth. If I get a bottle of "Two-buck Chuck" (Charles Shaw), I'll graciously accept it and probably not fix their computer again. Not that it's horrible wine, but it's a statement of how little they value my time.
Oh, great. Future comparisons of computing capability will be based on SPUs. "Hey, I got the new 12-SPU chip in my computer. How much SPU is in your computer?"
Sure, it costs money, but the Personal license is only $30. I tried the 30-day eval and thought it was a pretty good IDE. If I get to the point where I need something more complicated than vi for my Perl programming, I'd probably buy Komodo.
Sure, but try to get MS Office to interoperate with something else. My SUSE install of OpenOffice opens and saves Word-compatible documents just fine. But does Word open and save OpenOffice-formatted documents? I haven't noticed that it does.
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News to me. Wish I could mod you "Informative."
thx
There are no current plans for porting Airfoil to Windows.
Yeah, right...
Use Airfoil to play audio from RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Safari, and almost any other application right through your AirPort Express.
Sounds like an opportunity for a kit. Apple could sell (service-shop installed, of course) a new cover with an iPod dock installed to replace the old cover. The kit would include a new connector with the appropriate pins soldered on for $75 plus installation cost (another $75, I'm sure).
I suspect I'd be interested, too, though I'm not sure just how much.
I live in Portland, and, per the Insolation Map linked above, we get about 4 kWh/m^2/day on average. If you figure on using a twelve (3x4) square meter panel, that's 48 kWh/day. At 12% efficiency, you're at 5.76 kWh/day of actual generated electricity.
Since it's an average, you can figure on that output year 'round. So, 5.76 * 365 days is 2102.4 kWh/year. At $0.09 per kWh (the going rate for electricity here), that's $189.22 per year of payback if you sold every bit of generation back to the power company.
Since we don't know how much the 10x14 foot panel generates, it's hard to estimate what one might cost. But if it was REALLY CHEAP at US$2000, it would take you over ten years to pay back the cost of the panel. Ten years is (AFAIK) longer than the typical lifespan of your average solar panel.
Having said all that, there are many reasons other than direct cost to have solar power generation, such as being somewhere that grid connectivity isn't available. And, if you're somewhere that the price of electricity is higher that $0.09/kWh, that shifts the numbers, too.
It's great to see new solar technologies coming to fruition. Hopefully this is one to get excited about. It probably isn't, but one can hope.
Is that more painful than passing a kidney stone?
Is it just me, or have they just invented the windmill? Right, not the "wind mill" per se, but a wind turbine that we commonly refer to as a windmill.
Wait, doesn't that violate the Prime Directive? That's against the rules, but Kirk keeps...
Oh, wait... Sorry. Wrong show.
The blurb seems to indicate that this is a first. If so, I'm really surprised. Many times I've seen dealers pass chips (usually $100 or more) over a scanner that lights up. I assumed that it was checking that the chip was valid, and I guessed that they were using RFID. That's how I would have done it anyway, and I figure that they're AT LEAST as smart as me.
Looking over the rooms on the web site, I'm surprised at the room rates. The small rooms are expensive (start at $349 per night) and the big rooms are relatively cheap (a 1950 sq. ft. suite for $850 per night). Big suites in other casinos are usually a couple thousand a night (I get this by window shopping, believe me).
Not a bad idea. With 20 cases of wine maturing in the basement, it's not going to be too long before I have more than I know what to do with. Scotch, on the other hand, is definitely on my list of favorite potables, and I've never looked at my shelf and said, "Oh, I have too much Scotch." Furthermore, the chance of my palette being able to appreciate anything more expensive than about $35 for a bottle of wine is slim. I can appreciate up to about $100 worth of Scotch, though, and the bottle lasts past one good dinner.
Thanks. I somehow feel like an Italian with a bunch of Lire in my pocket suddenly being introduced to the Euro.
Slainte.
I would be insulted, yes. If someone's accquainted with me enough to want me in their house or business doing computer work for them, then they should know better than think I would drink anything in the fortified wine category beneath Warre's Tawny Port. Anything in the alcoholic Kool-Aid category, as you put it, isn't fit for human consumption. No offense to your tastes and all, but if that's the class of work they're after, they should look for it.
Considering that I make my own (sometimes good, sometimes bad) wine, I'd think that was mighty nice. I consider homemade wine to have a par value of about $10 a bottle with the cork in it. Once the cork comes out, the value varies up and down with quality.
I have noticed the phenomenon you mention, though I would hardly call it "anyone." I suppose I could have elaborated on the details of how a system-based message queuing system is designed to be a lossless, connectionless method for intrasystem messaging, much like a small town post office, where one piece of software delivers a message, often packaged as XML or CSV, and marks it for entry into a particular queue or stack. When other pieces of software are subscribed to the queue in question, they pick up the messages that get registered there. The messages are either destroyed on pick up or stay in the queue, depending on what type the queue is. But all this is just a surface look at how MQs are used and how they work. A layman's introduction, it might be said. It also doesn't cover the fact that they can be used as the back-end for IM systems, if you write the appropriate client software. I was thinking that this person might like to have their choice of in-depth articles to read that would educate them far more than I was willing to in the short time alloted to me for reading Slashdot each day.
But thanks for your concern. I'm done trolling for now, how about you?
Crap. In my rush to be a smart ass, I forgot to select Plain Old Text. Message was supposed to read:
Might I suggest exercising your Google skillz?
Try these search terms:
message queuing
MQSeries
MSMQ
Java MQ
what is a message queue?
Thanks for your patience.
Might I suggest exercising your Google skillz. Try these search terms: message queuing MQSeries MSMQ Java MQ what is a message queue?
I think the point behind AMQ (at least it was heavily-pointed-out in the article) is that it supports bindings for C, C++, C#, Java, etc., etc., etc. ActiveMQ seems to only support bindings for Java.
I usually charge a bottle of wine. That way, people can spend as much on the bottle of wine as they think my service was worth. If I get a bottle of "Two-buck Chuck" (Charles Shaw), I'll graciously accept it and probably not fix their computer again. Not that it's horrible wine, but it's a statement of how little they value my time.
Oh, great. Future comparisons of computing capability will be based on SPUs. "Hey, I got the new 12-SPU chip in my computer. How much SPU is in your computer?"
No chance that Rambus learned a lesson, then?
You don't back up your computer, do you?
I've been reading something over at space.com today that's a panel discussion regarding terraforming Mars. Topics include could we, can we and should we?
Sure, it costs money, but the Personal license is only $30. I tried the 30-day eval and thought it was a pretty good IDE. If I get to the point where I need something more complicated than vi for my Perl programming, I'd probably buy Komodo.
If your OJ is 100 proof, it's time to throw it out and get another jug.
Sure, but try to get MS Office to interoperate with something else. My SUSE install of OpenOffice opens and saves Word-compatible documents just fine. But does Word open and save OpenOffice-formatted documents? I haven't noticed that it does.
No kidding. Thanks for the graphic. So, how close is that relative to, say, LEO? Do you have a "zoomed in" view?