This question really needs an answer. Corporations gained rights without associated responsabilities by abusing the law. It should be completly reviewed.
Maybe you are joking, but this as nothing to do with refrigerating electricity. It's about utilizing wind power to refrigirate during the night to be able to stop refrigirating during the day. Why? Because during the night, wind power over produce so it would be wasted! This is a simple idea but that can make a difference.
It reminds me about nuclear powerplants coupled with hydroelectricity. Nuclear power gives a constant output, but cannot be stopped shortly. So when they are overproducing, they pump water up transforming wasted energy in potential energy.
This is a shameless plug to a paper not worth reading.
Firstly, their is no such thing as IT people insulting customers. At least not more than any other profession. I would say that a majority of IT jobs do not involve direct contact with customer, except for consultants. Secondly, there is not reason raising the issue since there is no sign of damage. Thirdly, if your evidence is a T-shirt from Thinkgeek, you are pathetic. You have to work harder. This kind of shirt have been around for a long time in fashion shops. Many people with no link to IT wear those.
So to save fellow readers time, here is the best and more revealing part of this article... the first sentences:
I'm an idiot. I'm stupid, clueless, dumb - hell, I'm a complete moron. I'm so inept, in fact, that a new word has been created to capture my incompetence: "luser." The rest fails to make a point.
shameless advertizing?
Let me summarize:
SlingCommunity blah blah of Sling Media. They blah blah scoop blah blah SlingPlayer...
And it points to a page full of advertizement. All this mess for a poor product. What a pity.
Like you, I prefer something that plays my music (ogg) to something sleek and sexy. I also like the many features you get out of the box like the radio transmitter, so you can be a radio station. No need for costly gadgets.
Okay so that's one bad "review" for Neuros... At first glance, It looks like a relativly open company. Their player is upgradable, it plays Ogg Vorbis, etc.
I'd like to know other slashdotters bought Neuros Audio and want to share their experience. I consider bying one and look for experiences like the parent post. Anyone?
Right, 'Corporate Overlord IE Mandate' maybe the only reason for a user to use IE. That said, there no reason for a sysadmin not to install Firefox. User should push it in there offices.
And must desagree with your point that everybody is too occupied to ask for it. Only one email is needed for the whole place (if your admin listen to user emails). And don't tell me a single person doesn't have the time. It take 30 seconds and you probably do it at least 10 times a day! Ask your boss to do it, he surely have plenty of time.;) Finally, if you don't have time to mail your sysadmin, you don't have time to read slashdot!... or I missed something.
A little of topic, but I must say it: "the article page is a total crap!" news.com.com.com.etc is complete crap. It show during the loading time and disapears for no reason (maybe because I block javascript and ads or that it hates firefox?!?). The source code is awful!
Bad web page design should be illegal! I wonder what this computer judge such a crime... death penalty?
I understand your point. Maybe we are not there yet with batteries, but you can take advantage of real techonogical improvement in your life using CFL light bulbs! 20 years back, they sucked, but now they require 4 to 5 times less Watts for the same lumen output and they last 10 times longer than traditional incandescent lamp. As previously covered on./ before
Who said you couldn't make money out of saving the environment? Just remember to dispose them properly when finished since they contain mercury.
It is possible to benefit from tachnological progress in energy consumption. Batteries are the next big thing to improve. Be patient my friend, it's coming.
Take a look at this presentation. This guy has many good ideas. This labeler system comes from a game he created. There another game to be able to determine where in the image labeled terms appear.
Don't give publicity to companies who activly promote DRM and don't consider open source as a market. Encourage companies like Neuros where you can request what you want in the next audio player.
Maybe not as sexy as an iPod, but surely more surely more open. It does support OGG Vorbis! You can download new firmware or do it yourself, you got the spec.
Hack your devices people, ask for openness!
As a matter of fact, if you go back to history you'll find that Edison's "DC is safer" campaign was nothing more than FUD propaganda. He even went to electrify to death a cow in New York streets just to prove how deadly AC was. How scientific is that? Some even say he used DC at very high voltages and grounded the cow.
Edison had massively invested in DC and was desesperatly looking for a mean to transport it on "long" distances without big looses associated with DC transportation. When he hired Tesla, he dismissed what this young engineer was showing him (Tesla had just invented AC). After Tesla resigned and when on his own (with the finantial support of Westinghouse), Edison went on a personal war against Tesla. Edison had great political influence and tried everything possible to kill AC current, but the technological advantage was on Tesla's side.
The campaign of fear directed by Edison worked for a time, but when Westinghouse won the contract to light 1893 World's Fair, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This success revealed AC current to the face of the earth as a working technology. Many times, Tesla demonstrated how inoffensive AC was, risking his own life.;)
As a side note, Tesla experimented high voltages (reaching 1 million volts) with Tesla coils, skin current conduction, he invented radio transmission, AC current, three phase motors, new efficient turbines, hydro-electric dam, energy wireless transmission, the death ray, received the first signal from space (Mars), and many more. He his surely the greatest engineer who ever lived.
I'm not sure if their is many memory leaks in firefox, but I thing that is broken for sure is the "infinit cache" problem. Firefox never flushs its caches and fills X's memory until you close the application. They call that a feature, I call that a conceptual mistake. Caches must be fixed size or should flush after some trigger (time!?).
This only means Microsoft uses economic tactics to force people to switch to Vista. There is no technical reason behind this annoncement. It becomes even clearer when you know that Bungie Studios is owned by Microsoft.
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This question really needs an answer. Corporations gained rights without associated responsabilities by abusing the law. It should be completly reviewed.
Memo to myself:
- Do not reply to a post trying to be funny with an informative answer.
- Go back to this post on April's first and have a good laugh.
Maybe you are joking, but this as nothing to do with refrigerating electricity. It's about utilizing wind power to refrigirate during the night to be able to stop refrigirating during the day. Why? Because during the night, wind power over produce so it would be wasted! This is a simple idea but that can make a difference.
It reminds me about nuclear powerplants coupled with hydroelectricity. Nuclear power gives a constant output, but cannot be stopped shortly. So when they are overproducing, they pump water up transforming wasted energy in potential energy.
Firstly, their is no such thing as IT people insulting customers. At least not more than any other profession. I would say that a majority of IT jobs do not involve direct contact with customer, except for consultants. Secondly, there is not reason raising the issue since there is no sign of damage. Thirdly, if your evidence is a T-shirt from Thinkgeek, you are pathetic. You have to work harder. This kind of shirt have been around for a long time in fashion shops. Many people with no link to IT wear those.
So to save fellow readers time, here is the best and more revealing part of this article... the first sentences:
I'm an idiot. I'm stupid, clueless, dumb - hell, I'm a complete moron. I'm so inept, in fact, that a new word has been created to capture my incompetence: "luser." The rest fails to make a point.And it points to a page full of advertizement. All this mess for a poor product. What a pity.
Anyway, that was my slingshot
Because no one dares to post the link to Turnitin.
Like you, I prefer something that plays my music (ogg) to something sleek and sexy. I also like the many features you get out of the box like the radio transmitter, so you can be a radio station. No need for costly gadgets.
I'd like to know other slashdotters bought Neuros Audio and want to share their experience. I consider bying one and look for experiences like the parent post. Anyone?
Also, Neuros Audio III is in design, maybe I should wait?
And must desagree with your point that everybody is too occupied to ask for it. Only one email is needed for the whole place (if your admin listen to user emails). And don't tell me a single person doesn't have the time. It take 30 seconds and you probably do it at least 10 times a day! Ask your boss to do it, he surely have plenty of time. ;) Finally, if you don't have time to mail your sysadmin, you don't have time to read slashdot! ... or I missed something.
Bad web page design should be illegal! I wonder what this computer judge such a crime... death penalty?
Who said you couldn't make money out of saving the environment? Just remember to dispose them properly when finished since they contain mercury.
It is possible to benefit from tachnological progress in energy consumption. Batteries are the next big thing to improve. Be patient my friend, it's coming.
Beware, it may be addictive. ;)
Simple answer : yes
Mod parent up!
He got it all right. It's nothing more than an ego trip.
Good to see ./ has still is "magic touch". It's been a while since we slashdotted.
Maybe not as sexy as an iPod, but surely more surely more open. It does support OGG Vorbis! You can download new firmware or do it yourself, you got the spec.
Hack your devices people, ask for openness!
I hear somebody laugh at Google: "haha those ranking noobes did not understand anything."
Edison had massively invested in DC and was desesperatly looking for a mean to transport it on "long" distances without big looses associated with DC transportation. When he hired Tesla, he dismissed what this young engineer was showing him (Tesla had just invented AC). After Tesla resigned and when on his own (with the finantial support of Westinghouse), Edison went on a personal war against Tesla. Edison had great political influence and tried everything possible to kill AC current, but the technological advantage was on Tesla's side.
The campaign of fear directed by Edison worked for a time, but when Westinghouse won the contract to light 1893 World's Fair, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This success revealed AC current to the face of the earth as a working technology. Many times, Tesla demonstrated how inoffensive AC was, risking his own life. ;)
As a side note, Tesla experimented high voltages (reaching 1 million volts) with Tesla coils, skin current conduction, he invented radio transmission, AC current, three phase motors, new efficient turbines, hydro-electric dam, energy wireless transmission, the death ray, received the first signal from space (Mars), and many more. He his surely the greatest engineer who ever lived.
One strange thing about this is that it would not really heal cells, but the disease wouldn't be active anymore.
This problem bugs me like hell.
How I understand this is more like... trust them to take liberty out of your hands.
The BBC is reporting that in Poland, 133 of every 1,000 domestic PCs are Windows free.
This only means Microsoft uses economic tactics to force people to switch to Vista. There is no technical reason behind this annoncement. It becomes even clearer when you know that Bungie Studios is owned by Microsoft.
Fragmentation means longer seek times (proportional to angular distance on the same platter) and disk can't take advantage of read ahead caching.
Everyone can be sued by anyone. The concern is to have a case... but that never stopped {MP,RI}AA. ;)