Fast, cheap number crunching? Isn't that why the Army bought a ton of PS3s to utilize the Cell cpu? Amazon just released new EC3 process that gives you 2 Nvidia CPUs for number crunching, and they're not cheap either.
OpenCL is the "Open" CUDA solution. I believe CUDA actually supports OpenCL at this time too.
Given a choice between "100% Open Sourced" Non useful driver like this and NVidia's "Free as in Beer" driver that has been kicking ass for a long time in the XBMC and for people that do use CUDA, I'll take Nvidia.
I didn't see any mention of VAAPI or XvBA Acceleration for playing media? How about OpenCL support?
Granted the HD 6000 looks more like a gamers card than something you'd stick in a home theater pc, but I'd think that OpenCL support would interest quite a few people doing massive number crunching. Especially since there's even PyOpenCL available.
Why not every 30? That should be enough time for a HUMAN to decide if they want to buy or sell something. It seems that this lightning fast trading works great and they're happy if they're making money. If something cascades into failure (like it did earlier last year, or was it '09?) then they just say 'oops, do over'. Imagine you were cashing out your 401k during the 'accidental' crash last year. One second stuff is at 1000, the next it's at 300. In the time it took for electrons to travel from your broker to the market.
The worth of a company what a stock is supposed to buy you into, doesn't change even from minute to minute.
I mean, they wouldn't make as much, but it'd be fair to the common person. (So it'll never happen). - OR, the other suggestion that I heard suggested would be to tax trades inversely proportional to how long they're held. 1 minute: 90% 1 hour: 80%........ 20 years: 5% 40 years: 1% (people that actually it as investment).
I think this comes as no surprise to anyone. It's an interesting move, and it brings us one step closer to the end of the "PC era." Is this really what people want? I guess it must be.
Yes it is. Everyone at slashdot points to their "Mothers" or "GrandMothers" when it comes to non-technical users. But "People" are doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers, mechanics, etc that want an "internet appliance". They want facebook, photos, e-mail. These are the people that are buying the iPad. They don't want to search google for an app. They just want to be able to get it.
My girlfriend wouldn't have Ubuntu if I wasn't there to support it. Between grub failing to install and me having to walk her through a grub recovery on Live to her printer/scanner combo not working. Sure the Software Repository is nice, but that's exactly what this is.
Not everyone wants to come home and tinker with OS, Firmware or Applications. People will pay 10% more if it "Just works". Think of all the branding people did back in the day with "PC Compatible". Slap an iOS approved logo on a printer, scanner, camera and it'll sell. Everytime I read of these doom and gloom stories/comments I can only think of the XKC: Rock Band. "Guys Apple isn't Open! They have a walled garden. Listen to me. Stop getting stuff done that you wanted to".
Slashdot claims that everyone wants a "Choice". Here's a great TED Talk on Paradox of Choice. What has "Choice" gotten us with the Android Market? Fragmentation, articles on how "What will happen with all these different GPUs" etc. Most people don't want a choice. They want to be told how it is. When you decide where to go for dinner with a group of friends more often than not its "I don't care. No seafood." "I don't care. What ever.". It's 20 minutes of no-decision making until someone steps up and says "We're going to This Italian restaurant, and 99% of the time everyone has no problem with it.
It's what helped Facebook become popular over Myspace. There was no editing HTML. There were a few boxes. This is how it is. Enter your info. Everyones page looks the exact same. Myspace made Geocities look like the css zen garden.
I can see this being incorporated into softwareupdate.
I already use it to update stuff when I'm away from home. usage: softwareupdate [...]
-l | --list List all appropriate updates
-d | --download Download Only
-i | --install Install... specific updates
-a | --all all appropriate updates
-r | --recommended only recommended updates
Per-user preferences:
--ignore... Ignore specific updates
--reset-ignored Clear all ignored updates
--schedule (on | off) Set automatic checking
-v | --verbose Enable verbose output
-h | --help Print this help
Before I committed ANY data to ZFS I sure as heck "played around with it" in virtual machines until I was comfortable doing about anything with it.
"Pull" one of the drives. What happens? dd if=/dev/random of= to your disk in random places (skip/seek), what happens to your data. Pull all of the drives and replace it with a larger one.
How are the user tools for btrfs? zpool & zfs are fairly well documented and have very simple short commands.
Does it automatically share over nfs/samba like you can with ZFS on Solaris?
The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year... Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years. That means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit for minimum cost will be 65,000. I believe that such a large circuit can be built on a single wafer.[7]
Original Article: Cramming more components onto integrated circuit Article 2: Excerpts from A Conversation with Gordon Moore: Moore’s Law
Debian seems to handle it just fine and (based on gcc) they're compiling for 14 different platforms* and 3 different kernels (linux, hurd, freebsd)
Is it that difficult to setup a similar thing in the app store? "Oh it looks like you're running an ARMv5 and a PowerVR GPU. We'll give you this binary."
Or, you do what Apple has always done with Fat Binaries. 68k to PPC. PPC to PPC64. PPC* to i386. i386 to x86_64. You could have one single fat binary that supported ppc, ppc64, i386 and x86_64. And it "Just worked". They were literally checkboxes in XCode. How many GPU and CPU solutions are there for the Android? This isn't low level Assembly code, it's compiled Java.
With NTP, why don't they offer 2 buys/sells a minute? That lets everyone look at something, decide if they want to buy or sell, and it stops all this instatrading from happening.
On top of that, it seems that this lightning fast trading works great and they're happy if they're making money. If something cascades into failure (like it did earlier last year, or was it '09?) then they just say 'oops, do over'. Meanwhile some people were caught up that were cashing out their pensions or transferring funds between accounts.
I mean, they wouldn't make as much, but it'd be fair to the common person. - OR, the other suggestion that I saw would be to tax trades inversely proportional to how long they're held. 1 minute: 90% 1 hour: 80%........ 20 years: 5% 40 years: 1% (people that actually it as investment).
I wish they would do this in the US. It's dumb that each company has their own chargers.
Sounds socialist to me. I like letting capitalism sort it out. Just like it did with CDMA, TDMA, GSM, LTE and WiMAX. Thanks to capitalism we have the cheapest and fastest wireless phones known to the world.
In my state if sober grandma drives her SUV through a populated bar and kills 30 people, that's 30 alcohol related deaths in an alcohol related accident.
It's ANY party, even if they're not the ones at fault.
No more worrying if your neighbor is intercepting your calls. No more being paranoid of foreign governments. Conduct insider trading in front of the SEC!
Word on the street is Julian Assange has his very personal Navajo. No proper business man would be caught with out one.
Still needs the proper referrer set. Punch that URL into google and follow that link OR:
PARSONS, Kan. — An unlikely pilgrimage is under way to Dwayne’s Photo, a small family business that has through luck and persistence become the last processor in the world of Kodachrome, the first successful color film and still the most beloved.
That celebrated 75-year run from mainstream to niche photography is scheduled to come to an end on Thursday when the last processing machine is shut down here to be sold for scrap.
In the last weeks, dozens of visitors and thousands of overnight packages have raced here, transforming this small prairie-bound city not far from the Oklahoma border for a brief time into a center of nostalgia for the days when photographs appeared not in the sterile frame of a computer screen or in a pack of flimsy prints from the local drugstore but in the warm glow of a projector pulling an image from a carousel of vivid slides.
In the span of minutes this week, two such visitors arrived. The first was a railroad worker who had driven from Arkansas to pick up 1,580 rolls of film that he had just paid $15,798 to develop. The second was an artist who had driven directly here after flying from London to Wichita, Kan., on her first trip to the United States to turn in three rolls of film and shoot five more before the processing deadline.
The artist, Aliceson Carter, 42, was incredulous as she watched the railroad worker, Jim DeNike, 53, loading a dozen boxes that contained nearly 50,000 slides into his old maroon Pontiac. He explained that every picture inside was of railroad trains and that he had borrowed money from his father’s retirement account to pay for developing them.
“That’s crazy to me,” Ms. Carter said. Then she snapped a picture of Mr. DeNike on one of her last rolls.
Demanding both to shoot and process, Kodachrome rewarded generations of skilled users with a richness of color and a unique treatment of light that many photographers described as incomparable even as they shifted to digital cameras. “Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day,” Paul Simon sang in his 1973 hit “Kodachrome,” which carried the plea “Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away.”
As news media around the world have heralded Thursday’s end of an era, rolls of the discontinued film that had been hoarded in freezers and tucked away in closets, sometimes for decades, have flooded Dwayne’s Photo, arriving from six continents.
“It’s more than a film, it’s a pop culture icon,” said Todd Gustavson, a curator from the George Eastman House, a photography museum in Rochester in the former residence of the Kodak founder. “If you were in the postwar baby boom, it was the color film, no doubt about it.”
Among the recent visitors was Steve McCurry, a photographer whose work has appeared for decades in National Geographic including his well-known cover portrait, shot in Kodachrome, of a Afghan girl that highlights what he describes as the “sublime quality” of the film. When Kodak stopped producing the film last year, the company gave him the last roll, which he hand-delivered to Parsons. “I wasn’t going to take any chances,” he explained.
At the peak, there were about 25 labs worldwide that processed Kodachrome, but the last Kodak-run facility in the United States closed several years ago, then the one in Japan and then the one in Switzerland. Since then, all that was left has been Dwayne’s Photo. Last year, Kodak stopped producing the chemicals needed to develop the film, providing the business with enough to continue processing through the end of 2010. And last week, right on schedule, the lab opened up the last canister of blue dye.
Kodak declined to comment for this article.
The status of lone survivor is a point of pride for Dwayne Steinle, who remembers being warned more than once by a Kodak repr
KIPTUSURI, Kenya (The New York Times) — For Sara Ruto, the desperate yearning for electricity began last year with the purchase of her first cellphone, a lifeline for receiving small money transfers, contacting relatives in the city or checking chicken prices at the nearest market.
Charging the phone was no simple matter in this farming village far from Kenya’s electric grid.
Every week, Ms. Ruto walked two miles to hire a motorcycle taxi for the three-hour ride to Mogotio, the nearest town with electricity. There, she dropped off her cellphone at a store that recharges phones for 30 cents. Yet the service was in such demand that she had to leave it behind for three full days before returning.
That wearying routine ended in February when the family sold some animals to buy a small Chinese-made solar power system for about $80. Now balanced precariously atop their tin roof, a lone solar panel provides enough electricity to charge the phone and run four bright overhead lights with switches.
“My main motivation was the phone, but this has changed so many other things,” Ms. Ruto said on a recent evening as she relaxed on a bench in the mud-walled shack she shares with her husband and six children.
As small-scale renewable energy becomes cheaper, more reliable and more efficient, it is providing the first drops of modern power to people who live far from slow-growing electricity grids and fuel pipelines in developing countries. Although dwarfed by the big renewable energy projects that many industrialized countries are embracing to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, these tiny systems are playing an epic, transformative role.
Since Ms. Ruto hooked up the system, her teenagers’ grades have improved because they have light for studying. The toddlers no longer risk burns from the smoky kerosene lamp. And each month, she saves $15 in kerosene and battery costs — and the $20 she used to spend on travel.
In fact, neighbors now pay her 20 cents to charge their phones, although that business may soon evaporate: 63 families in Kiptusuri have recently installed their own solar power systems.
“You leapfrog over the need for fixed lines,” said Adam Kendall, head of the sub-Saharan Africa power practice for McKinsey & Company, the global consulting firm. “Renewable energy becomes more and more important in less and less developed markets.”
The United Nations estimates that 1.5 billion people across the globe still live without electricity, including 85 percent of Kenyans, and that three billion still cook and heat with primitive fuels like wood or charcoal.
There is no reliable data on the spread of off-grid renewable energy on a small scale, in part because the projects are often installed by individuals or tiny nongovernmental organizations.
But Dana Younger, senior renewable energy adviser at the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank Group’s private lending arm, said there was no question that the trend was accelerating. “It’s a phenomenon that’s sweeping the world; a huge number of these systems are being installed,” Mr. Younger said.
With the advent of cheap solar panels and high-efficiency LED lights, which can light a room with just 4 watts of power instead of 60, these small solar systems now deliver useful electricity at a price that even the poor can afford, he noted. “You’re seeing herders in Inner Mongolia with solar cells on top of their yurts,” Mr. Younger said.
In Africa, nascent markets for the systems have sprung up in Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi and Ghana as well as in Kenya, said Francis Hillman, an energy entrepreneur who recently shifted his Eritrea-based business, Phaesun Asmara, from large solar projects financed by nongovernmental organizations to a greater emphasis on tiny rooftop systems.
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Boot HD: 100GB SSD.
Fans were going full tilt by time the thing was over.
Slashdot Mirror
Fast, cheap number crunching? Isn't that why the Army bought a ton of PS3s to utilize the Cell cpu? Amazon just released new EC3 process that gives you 2 Nvidia CPUs for number crunching, and they're not cheap either.
OpenCL is the "Open" CUDA solution. I believe CUDA actually supports OpenCL at this time too.
Given a choice between "100% Open Sourced" Non useful driver like this and NVidia's "Free as in Beer" driver that has been kicking ass for a long time in the XBMC and for people that do use CUDA, I'll take Nvidia.
"Why didn't you answer my call. Where were were you. What were you doing? What are you up to?, Soooo.... I'm going to need you to work Saturday".
vs
"Aww honey, I tried to call my my phone was acting up. Could you take a look at it."
"You're lucky my phone was acting up. I almost called you in for a double shift. I was able to catch Smith before he left."
I didn't see any mention of VAAPI or XvBA Acceleration for playing media? How about OpenCL support?
Granted the HD 6000 looks more like a gamers card than something you'd stick in a home theater pc, but I'd think that OpenCL support would interest quite a few people doing massive number crunching. Especially since there's even PyOpenCL available.
Why not every 30? That should be enough time for a HUMAN to decide if they want to buy or sell something. It seems that this lightning fast trading works great and they're happy if they're making money. If something cascades into failure (like it did earlier last year, or was it '09?) then they just say 'oops, do over'. Imagine you were cashing out your 401k during the 'accidental' crash last year. One second stuff is at 1000, the next it's at 300. In the time it took for electrons to travel from your broker to the market.
The worth of a company what a stock is supposed to buy you into, doesn't change even from minute to minute.
I mean, they wouldn't make as much, but it'd be fair to the common person. (So it'll never happen). .. .. .. ..
-
OR, the other suggestion that I heard suggested would be to tax trades inversely proportional to how long they're held.
1 minute: 90%
1 hour: 80%
20 years: 5%
40 years: 1% (people that actually it as investment).
I think this comes as no surprise to anyone. It's an interesting move, and it brings us one step closer to the end of the "PC era." Is this really what people want? I guess it must be.
Yes it is. Everyone at slashdot points to their "Mothers" or "GrandMothers" when it comes to non-technical users. But "People" are doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers, mechanics, etc that want an "internet appliance". They want facebook, photos, e-mail. These are the people that are buying the iPad. They don't want to search google for an app. They just want to be able to get it.
My girlfriend wouldn't have Ubuntu if I wasn't there to support it. Between grub failing to install and me having to walk her through a grub recovery on Live to her printer/scanner combo not working. Sure the Software Repository is nice, but that's exactly what this is.
Not everyone wants to come home and tinker with OS, Firmware or Applications. People will pay 10% more if it "Just works". Think of all the branding people did back in the day with "PC Compatible". Slap an iOS approved logo on a printer, scanner, camera and it'll sell. Everytime I read of these doom and gloom stories/comments I can only think of the XKC: Rock Band. "Guys Apple isn't Open! They have a walled garden. Listen to me. Stop getting stuff done that you wanted to".
Slashdot claims that everyone wants a "Choice". Here's a great TED Talk on Paradox of Choice. What has "Choice" gotten us with the Android Market? Fragmentation, articles on how "What will happen with all these different GPUs" etc. Most people don't want a choice. They want to be told how it is. When you decide where to go for dinner with a group of friends more often than not its "I don't care. No seafood." "I don't care. What ever.". It's 20 minutes of no-decision making until someone steps up and says "We're going to This Italian restaurant, and 99% of the time everyone has no problem with it.
It's what helped Facebook become popular over Myspace. There was no editing HTML. There were a few boxes. This is how it is. Enter your info. Everyones page looks the exact same. Myspace made Geocities look like the css zen garden.
I can see this being incorporated into softwareupdate.
I already use it to update stuff when I'm away from home. ...]
usage: softwareupdate [
-l | --list List all appropriate updates ... specific updates
-d | --download Download Only
-i | --install Install
-a | --all all appropriate updates
-r | --recommended only recommended updates
Per-user preferences: ... Ignore specific updates
--ignore
--reset-ignored Clear all ignored updates
--schedule (on | off) Set automatic checking
-v | --verbose Enable verbose output
-h | --help Print this help
Same here. 100GB SSD an 640GB Hard Drive.
Before I committed ANY data to ZFS I sure as heck "played around with it" in virtual machines until I was comfortable doing about anything with it.
"Pull" one of the drives. What happens?
dd if=/dev/random of= to your disk in random places (skip/seek), what happens to your data.
Pull all of the drives and replace it with a larger one.
How are the user tools for btrfs? zpool & zfs are fairly well documented and have very simple short commands.
Does it automatically share over nfs/samba like you can with ZFS on Solaris?
ftp://download.intel.com/museum/Moores_Law/Articles-Press_Releases/Gordon_Moore_1965_Article.pdf
Stupid not previewing...
Is it really that difficult?
The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year... Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years. That means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit for minimum cost will be 65,000. I believe that such a large circuit can be built on a single wafer.[7]
Original Article:
Cramming more components
onto integrated circuit
Article 2: Excerpts from A Conversation
with Gordon Moore: Moore’s Law
Debian seems to handle it just fine and (based on gcc) they're compiling for 14 different platforms* and 3 different kernels (linux, hurd, freebsd)
Is it that difficult to setup a similar thing in the app store? "Oh it looks like you're running an ARMv5 and a PowerVR GPU. We'll give you this binary."
Or, you do what Apple has always done with Fat Binaries. 68k to PPC. PPC to PPC64. PPC* to i386. i386 to x86_64. You could have one single fat binary that supported ppc, ppc64, i386 and x86_64. And it "Just worked". They were literally checkboxes in XCode. How many GPU and CPU solutions are there for the Android? This isn't low level Assembly code, it's compiled Java.
*alpha amd64 armel hppa hurd-i386 i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sh4 sparc sparc64
But I should trust GIMP, Brain Fuck Scheduler, Gnome, Pidgin, Konqueror, etc?
2 transactions a minute is 30,000 ms.
With NTP, why don't they offer 2 buys/sells a minute? That lets everyone look at something, decide if they want to buy or sell, and it stops all this instatrading from happening.
On top of that, it seems that this lightning fast trading works great and they're happy if they're making money. If something cascades into failure (like it did earlier last year, or was it '09?) then they just say 'oops, do over'. Meanwhile some people were caught up that were cashing out their pensions or transferring funds between accounts.
I mean, they wouldn't make as much, but it'd be fair to the common person. .. .. .. ..
-
OR, the other suggestion that I saw would be to tax trades inversely proportional to how long they're held.
1 minute: 90%
1 hour: 80%
20 years: 5%
40 years: 1% (people that actually it as investment).
I just upgraded my 3 year old "AM2+" with a X4 640 AM3 (it needed a BIOS update).
Only problem is the north bridge heatsink wasn't designed for that much IO so I'm going to have to install a fan (it's literally too hot to touch).
That plus the fact that they dominate the PassMark's CPU/$ benchmark means I'll be buying AMD for a long time...
Except if it's their GPU offerings. They need to pull their heads out of their asses and catch up with Linux Support to Nvidia.
I wish they would do this in the US. It's dumb that each company has their own chargers.
Sounds socialist to me. I like letting capitalism sort it out. Just like it did with CDMA, TDMA, GSM, LTE and WiMAX. Thanks to capitalism we have the cheapest and fastest wireless phones known to the world.
What about people that get arrested for sleeping it off in their car?
Fast asleep, but if your keys are anywhere on you or in arms reach. Instant DUI.
They went out, they had a few too many. They DIDN'T drive home, but got a DUI anyway..
Not every rural town has a Taxi service.
5th time in a month and he still is allowed to drive to work and back.
And where would you get cheese from if Wisconsin shut down?
In my state if sober grandma drives her SUV through a populated bar and kills 30 people, that's 30 alcohol related deaths in an alcohol related accident.
It's ANY party, even if they're not the ones at fault.
Rent a Navajo Today!
No more worrying if your neighbor is intercepting your calls. No more being paranoid of foreign governments. Conduct insider trading in front of the SEC!
Word on the street is Julian Assange has his very personal Navajo. No proper business man would be caught with out one.
- Paid for by the Navajo Talkers of America
Too bad modern OSes only have a spot for a single DNS server. Otherwise you could add multiple.
Add Multiple.
Drop Timeout Time.
Enjoy.
If Comcast goes down, I'll fail over to Verizon/Google. If Comcast is up it knows my location.
Still needs the proper referrer set. Punch that URL into google and follow that link OR:
PARSONS, Kan. — An unlikely pilgrimage is under way to Dwayne’s Photo, a small family business that has through luck and persistence become the last processor in the world of Kodachrome, the first successful color film and still the most beloved.
That celebrated 75-year run from mainstream to niche photography is scheduled to come to an end on Thursday when the last processing machine is shut down here to be sold for scrap.
In the last weeks, dozens of visitors and thousands of overnight packages have raced here, transforming this small prairie-bound city not far from the Oklahoma border for a brief time into a center of nostalgia for the days when photographs appeared not in the sterile frame of a computer screen or in a pack of flimsy prints from the local drugstore but in the warm glow of a projector pulling an image from a carousel of vivid slides.
In the span of minutes this week, two such visitors arrived. The first was a railroad worker who had driven from Arkansas to pick up 1,580 rolls of film that he had just paid $15,798 to develop. The second was an artist who had driven directly here after flying from London to Wichita, Kan., on her first trip to the United States to turn in three rolls of film and shoot five more before the processing deadline.
The artist, Aliceson Carter, 42, was incredulous as she watched the railroad worker, Jim DeNike, 53, loading a dozen boxes that contained nearly 50,000 slides into his old maroon Pontiac. He explained that every picture inside was of railroad trains and that he had borrowed money from his father’s retirement account to pay for developing them.
“That’s crazy to me,” Ms. Carter said. Then she snapped a picture of Mr. DeNike on one of her last rolls.
Demanding both to shoot and process, Kodachrome rewarded generations of skilled users with a richness of color and a unique treatment of light that many photographers described as incomparable even as they shifted to digital cameras. “Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day,” Paul Simon sang in his 1973 hit “Kodachrome,” which carried the plea “Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away.”
As news media around the world have heralded Thursday’s end of an era, rolls of the discontinued film that had been hoarded in freezers and tucked away in closets, sometimes for decades, have flooded Dwayne’s Photo, arriving from six continents.
“It’s more than a film, it’s a pop culture icon,” said Todd Gustavson, a curator from the George Eastman House, a photography museum in Rochester in the former residence of the Kodak founder. “If you were in the postwar baby boom, it was the color film, no doubt about it.”
Among the recent visitors was Steve McCurry, a photographer whose work has appeared for decades in National Geographic including his well-known cover portrait, shot in Kodachrome, of a Afghan girl that highlights what he describes as the “sublime quality” of the film. When Kodak stopped producing the film last year, the company gave him the last roll, which he hand-delivered to Parsons. “I wasn’t going to take any chances,” he explained.
At the peak, there were about 25 labs worldwide that processed Kodachrome, but the last Kodak-run facility in the United States closed several years ago, then the one in Japan and then the one in Switzerland. Since then, all that was left has been Dwayne’s Photo. Last year, Kodak stopped producing the chemicals needed to develop the film, providing the business with enough to continue processing through the end of 2010. And last week, right on schedule, the lab opened up the last canister of blue dye.
Kodak declined to comment for this article.
The status of lone survivor is a point of pride for Dwayne Steinle, who remembers being warned more than once by a Kodak repr
"I'll admit it, when I'm trying to pay attention to the lecture, even someone's screensaver in the row ahead of me can be a major distraction.'"
Most laptop users (unless they are intently taking notes) don't sit in the front row.
Or since you're a CS student, if laptop user is sitting in 'n' row.
Sit in row m, such that mn.
If they're distracting the teacher, then sure remove them.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=232874
KIPTUSURI, Kenya (The New York Times) — For Sara Ruto, the desperate yearning for electricity began last year with the purchase of her first cellphone, a lifeline for receiving small money transfers, contacting relatives in the city or checking chicken prices at the nearest market.
Charging the phone was no simple matter in this farming village far from Kenya’s electric grid.
Every week, Ms. Ruto walked two miles to hire a motorcycle taxi for the three-hour ride to Mogotio, the nearest town with electricity. There, she dropped off her cellphone at a store that recharges phones for 30 cents. Yet the service was in such demand that she had to leave it behind for three full days before returning.
That wearying routine ended in February when the family sold some animals to buy a small Chinese-made solar power system for about $80. Now balanced precariously atop their tin roof, a lone solar panel provides enough electricity to charge the phone and run four bright overhead lights with switches.
“My main motivation was the phone, but this has changed so many other things,” Ms. Ruto said on a recent evening as she relaxed on a bench in the mud-walled shack she shares with her husband and six children.
As small-scale renewable energy becomes cheaper, more reliable and more efficient, it is providing the first drops of modern power to people who live far from slow-growing electricity grids and fuel pipelines in developing countries. Although dwarfed by the big renewable energy projects that many industrialized countries are embracing to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, these tiny systems are playing an epic, transformative role.
Since Ms. Ruto hooked up the system, her teenagers’ grades have improved because they have light for studying. The toddlers no longer risk burns from the smoky kerosene lamp. And each month, she saves $15 in kerosene and battery costs — and the $20 she used to spend on travel.
In fact, neighbors now pay her 20 cents to charge their phones, although that business may soon evaporate: 63 families in Kiptusuri have recently installed their own solar power systems.
“You leapfrog over the need for fixed lines,” said Adam Kendall, head of the sub-Saharan Africa power practice for McKinsey & Company, the global consulting firm. “Renewable energy becomes more and more important in less and less developed markets.”
The United Nations estimates that 1.5 billion people across the globe still live without electricity, including 85 percent of Kenyans, and that three billion still cook and heat with primitive fuels like wood or charcoal.
There is no reliable data on the spread of off-grid renewable energy on a small scale, in part because the projects are often installed by individuals or tiny nongovernmental organizations.
But Dana Younger, senior renewable energy adviser at the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank Group’s private lending arm, said there was no question that the trend was accelerating. “It’s a phenomenon that’s sweeping the world; a huge number of these systems are being installed,” Mr. Younger said.
With the advent of cheap solar panels and high-efficiency LED lights, which can light a room with just 4 watts of power instead of 60, these small solar systems now deliver useful electricity at a price that even the poor can afford, he noted. “You’re seeing herders in Inner Mongolia with solar cells on top of their yurts,” Mr. Younger said.
In Africa, nascent markets for the systems have sprung up in Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi and Ghana as well as in Kenya, said Francis Hillman, an energy entrepreneur who recently shifted his Eritrea-based business, Phaesun Asmara, from large solar projects financed by nongovernmental organizations to a greater emphasis on tiny rooftop systems.
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