Well, how about the IEEE Canadian Review magazine?
The latest copy (number 48, page 24) states that it takes 2 to 4 years to recoup the electricity required to produce photovoltaic cells. Fortunately, they do on average last about 20 years, so you do get an 'energy gain'.
You can safely assume that the same is true for wind power which is also a 'low energy density' device that will take a long time to pay itself off.
According to IBM marketing, there are about 30 million Linux desktops in the world. I estimate that about 10 million of those paid for an unused Windows license. Therefore MS siphoned about $500 million off the Linux community.
Whales and other sea mammals are killed by torpedoes and depth charges, not sonar. The Navies of the world use the large mammals for submarine hunting exercises.
Yes, the high power sonar is dangerous as well, but explosions are much worse.
All they are saying is that they used an incompetent ISP that ran Apache and Oracle and now they are using a more clued up ISP that uses IIS. I assume the bad ISP still exists and still runs Apache and Oracle for its other clients. How the hell is that a migration?
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Pacemaker batteries are actually reused, because they are horribly expensive and last multiple lifetimes. You can donate your pacemaker and it will be cleaned and re-used for someone else.
I have frequently wondered why everybody concentrate on doing a quick landing on Mars. Slowing down rapidly is difficult and generates high heat. I like the balloon method - since there are no human beings in the craft, it doesn't matter how long it takes to slow down and reach the surface. Also, with a sloooooow descent, you can collect data while going down.
Windows is a religion:
Users fervently believe in it
Users refuse to try anything else
Users actually enjoy the suffering
Users refuse to accept blame for anything
Users believe that it will work better tomorrow
Geez, any self respecting switch has some of those features - people should learn to use them to partition the network. On a Windoze office network, very few users need to talk to each other - most only need to talk to a server.
Well, it is far more believable if the reason for the extinction is due to a big honking piece of rock hitting the earth, especially if this said piece of rock hit close to the present USA. Any big event far away from the USA, normal tektonic movent, volcanism and so on, won't engender any controversy and high TV ratings, since all Americans know that there is nothing important outside the borders of the USA. Therefore, the extinction has to be due to to a big rock hitting the earth smack next to the USA - science by mega media...
What a stupid search program. I am shocked that they haven't found all the infringing home.html files on the internet. There must be billions of those and the MPAA search program can't find any of them?
I have come to the conclusion that MS Windoze is like a Volkswagen Beetle. Everybody knew how to 'fix' a Beetle, since it broke down all the time and you had to work on it every weekend. Many people loved their unreliable POS cars, since all the breakdowns caused feelings of empathy.
Telling a Beetle lover that his car is an unreliable POS and that he should get a better car that doesn't require continuous maintenance, just caused them to become aggressive and tell you that it is impossible, all cars require continuous maintenance and then they'll show you many articles expounding the low cost of maintenance of a Beetle.
However, the moment you start digging, you find that he gets 15 miles to the gallon, has done 80,000 miles and is already on his second engine, third clutch plate and 8th exhaust pipe...
My browser identifies itself as 'vi 11.1 on Sinclair ZX Spectrum 64KB'. I never get kicked off anything. I think it is the high numbers that does it. Try upping your browser version number in the identifier string to double digits.
Mountain telescopes get snow too - they already know how to handle that. Anyhoo, this won't be the first Antarctic telescope, nor the last. Every Antarctic base probably has at least one - of varying quality.
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Huh? Hubble rotates very fast around the earth. It probably passes through the earth's shadow every couple of hours. It is in low earth orbit - has to be since the shuttle cannot reach high orbits.
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So, if anyone deletes schtuff on your desktop, you'll be done a favour...
At Pincher Creek in southern Alberta the noise has been described as 'having a helicopter in your back yard'.
The latest copy (number 48, page 24) states that it takes 2 to 4 years to recoup the electricity required to produce photovoltaic cells. Fortunately, they do on average last about 20 years, so you do get an 'energy gain'.
You can safely assume that the same is true for wind power which is also a 'low energy density' device that will take a long time to pay itself off.
Idiot Troll - Linux PCs are only available from the online store.
According to IBM marketing, there are about 30 million Linux desktops in the world. I estimate that about 10 million of those paid for an unused Windows license. Therefore MS siphoned about $500 million off the Linux community.
Yes, the high power sonar is dangerous as well, but explosions are much worse.
Linus said so himself. So there you have it on the highest authority.
No dammit, if MS fix their code it will kill the PC support industry and another million wannabe geeks will be out of work...
That'll fix it...
Windows Users have all the fun!
All they are saying is that they used an incompetent ISP that ran Apache and Oracle and now they are using a more clued up ISP that uses IIS. I assume the bad ISP still exists and still runs Apache and Oracle for its other clients. How the hell is that a migration?
Pacemaker batteries are actually reused, because they are horribly expensive and last multiple lifetimes. You can donate your pacemaker and it will be cleaned and re-used for someone else.
I have frequently wondered why everybody concentrate on doing a quick landing on Mars. Slowing down rapidly is difficult and generates high heat. I like the balloon method - since there are no human beings in the craft, it doesn't matter how long it takes to slow down and reach the surface. Also, with a sloooooow descent, you can collect data while going down.
Windows is a religion:
Users fervently believe in it
Users refuse to try anything else
Users actually enjoy the suffering
Users refuse to accept blame for anything
Users believe that it will work better tomorrow
Geez, any self respecting switch has some of those features - people should learn to use them to partition the network. On a Windoze office network, very few users need to talk to each other - most only need to talk to a server.
Well, it is far more believable if the reason for the extinction is due to a big honking piece of rock hitting the earth, especially if this said piece of rock hit close to the present USA. Any big event far away from the USA, normal tektonic movent, volcanism and so on, won't engender any controversy and high TV ratings, since all Americans know that there is nothing important outside the borders of the USA. Therefore, the extinction has to be due to to a big rock hitting the earth smack next to the USA - science by mega media...
Yeah, but the moon is missing us all the time - no news there... ;-)
Hmm, a big round yo-yo...
What a stupid search program. I am shocked that they haven't found all the infringing home.html files on the internet. There must be billions of those and the MPAA search program can't find any of them?
Telling a Beetle lover that his car is an unreliable POS and that he should get a better car that doesn't require continuous maintenance, just caused them to become aggressive and tell you that it is impossible, all cars require continuous maintenance and then they'll show you many articles expounding the low cost of maintenance of a Beetle.
However, the moment you start digging, you find that he gets 15 miles to the gallon, has done 80,000 miles and is already on his second engine, third clutch plate and 8th exhaust pipe...
My browser identifies itself as 'vi 11.1 on Sinclair ZX Spectrum 64KB'. I never get kicked off anything. I think it is the high numbers that does it. Try upping your browser version number in the identifier string to double digits.
You DDOS me, we Slashdot you...
I wonder if anyone else got it.
Mountain telescopes get snow too - they already know how to handle that. Anyhoo, this won't be the first Antarctic telescope, nor the last. Every Antarctic base probably has at least one - of varying quality.
Huh? Hubble rotates very fast around the earth. It probably passes through the earth's shadow every couple of hours. It is in low earth orbit - has to be since the shuttle cannot reach high orbits.