I am being charged 25 cents per KW/H, and my machines do stay on 24/7/365 -- power matters to me! From my measurements, a Mac Mini draws about 22 watts/hr when in use, my laptop uses about 21 wattts as it's a web server updated every 5 minutes from 8 different weather instruments. I hardly ever turn on my "gaming" box because it draws about 180 watts and frankly, I never used it for gaming anyway -- it was just my windoze box. Electricity costs a lot here, I'd rather feed a wood stove than keep a windows box on all day.
It seems the obvious answer to this mosquito problem is to genetically alter a male mosquito to only produce Y (male) sperm. That way, only male offspring are produced. These offspring, carrying the Y-only sperm gene, will only produce male offspring who also carrry the gene. Eventually, XY-sperm producing males will be outnumbered and the mosquito population will decrease to zero.
Re:They just want better pricing from Intel
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Sometimes loosing a little bit of profit on every sale is better than loosing all profit on every sale. In other words, Intel has to pay the "rent" on their fabs whether they sell any product or not -- they'd better sell for as much as they can get (even at a loss). If Dell isn't shipping their product, they're screwed.
My wife and I rarely use our Vonage account. However, we have dialed just about every family member we know of in the last 24-hours trying to get them out to the polls. Since we're both at home, we might as well use our "landline."
DUH!
Funny that you mention Hawaii and not having net access...
As a software engineer in Maui, I find that Internet access is easier to get here than just about anywhere else on earth (except maybe San Fran). Sure we have some "dead" areas, but if you were taking a class then I'm pretty sure you were in an area with at least a few sources of broadband connectivity.
Hawaii is a hub to several trans-pacific fiber-optic connections. If you call Australia from California, you're probably talking through us.
Outsourcing "IT" is like outsourcing "engineering."
If the question or design is simple then it is simply begs for a commodity-based result -- an answer or drawing. This is not to say that the people working on these problems are simple, it's just an issue of language, culture, and time-zone barriers.
America and the UK have proven themselves to be at the forefront of technology -- constantly improving on older developments; driving in directions yet unforseen. This happens daily, and in every sector of the market -- it is continual. Sure, some of our problems can be outsourced because they are simple to convey. However, much of our software and systems are more dynamic than we often admit. These "little" changes and enhancements are what I believe will be the demarcation point between offshore and traditional IT environments.
I don't think many jobs will be lost to foreign markets, because they will remain needed here. However, I think more jobs will be created in these offshored markets because of increased demand.
Couldn't you have just stopped the girls yourself? I mean, really... You witnessed the incident? Just stop them; if they won't tell you who they are -- then hold them until police arrive.
Unfortunately, Willie Nelson spends a significant amount of time here at his home on Maui. Guess what, XM Radio is not available in Hawaii... So much for freedoms.:)
Perhaps I'm speaking in the wrong forum, but in coding I often across events in which I have no idea how much data I'll be reading until I'm done.
Shit, this is problem shared by kids' lemonade stands and database developers worldwide.
The world is construed with constantly changing amounts of units. Ask just about any software engineer how many users use his system and he'll say "Ummm, I don't know."
Is he "stupid" because he doesn't know? No, it's no real working model can predict the future of something whose uncertainly of use is based on the number of users who use it.
As I proceed to digress, I have to admit that there are surely situations in which models fit very well, but think about the big picture. If you had to write a "simple" program to calculate 'pi' given any input.... could you do it? If you had to record transactions for a given bank for a given day -- could you magnify that for a million users for a year?... Or for a second?
My dad did this just to get a chuckle out of the neighbors:
1. Get out your self-propelled "push-style" mower.
2. Measure the cutting width
3. Place a post in the center of your yard that has a diameter equal to or less than the Cutting Width / pi.
4. Tie the inner wheel of the mower to a rope that is fixed on the post.
5. Start mower at edge of yard and as it winds itself around the post, it pulls itself inward toward the center.
6. When finished, trim the edges of the yard and you're done!
Easy cheesy, and it'll make your neighbors think you're bonkers!
Stupid '12 is divisible by more numbers argument'
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Without trying to bemoan the poster's inclusion,
Why does everyone need to mention that 12 is divisible by more real numbers?
12/1, 12/2, 12/3, 12/4, 12/6
10/1, 10/2, 10/5
It seems the only application this would have is for measurement of materials when building something by hand. I've helped frame several homes and spent many hours in a woodshop -- It is exceedingly rare than numbers fall into exact inches. In my experience, I have found myself doing calculations like dividing 31 3/16" by two and adding half the width of a stud (~1 1/2") to it.
Perhaps I'm just bitter, but using Imperial isn't really helping anyone in America... It's just that we're too lazy to change.
I believe that economists would argue that choice of airports are quite possibly a fantastic example of an "inelastic demand curve."
In other words, If the local airport doesn't offer wifi, but one 500 miles away does, am I going to take a Taxi? No way!
Most business travelers choose airports based on the cheapest flight (with their preferred carrier, if possible -- so they get the points).
I would doubt most business travellers have a checkbox on their expense reports listing an addendum: "but this carrier / route had wifi -- so disregard the higher airfare."
I travel by air frequently and would love to hop onto the hotspots that are available within terminals, however the rates are just too high! The time I spend while waiting to board is limited to 2 hours or less usually -- why would I want to pay $20 for a day-long "pass" at this location? Seriously, all I need to do is check my email and maybe hit slashdot. (And no, I don't want to do it on my phone)
If these guys got a clue, they would realize that everyone of us "out there" realizes that this is essentially a "free" service. Short of of the hardware infrastructure and the collection of my billing info -- how much cost is really being incurred by my login?
Don't most porn pages offer a limited subscription for less than $10? Can it be any more difficult than this for Wireless operators? After all, there's probably a lot less data transfer involved.
Slashdot Mirror
I would imagine that more Slashdotters fear the RIAA and MPAA than they do muslim extremists. So who are the real terrorists?
And what would funding them entail?
I am being charged 25 cents per KW/H, and my machines do stay on 24/7/365 -- power matters to me! From my measurements, a Mac Mini draws about 22 watts/hr when in use, my laptop uses about 21 wattts as it's a web server updated every 5 minutes from 8 different weather instruments. I hardly ever turn on my "gaming" box because it draws about 180 watts and frankly, I never used it for gaming anyway -- it was just my windoze box. Electricity costs a lot here, I'd rather feed a wood stove than keep a windows box on all day.
>By definition, watts are independant of time.
That's why they said a 100-watt light bulb 24/7.
A 100-watt light bulb lit 24 hrs would be... 2400 watt hours, or more commonly, 2.4 KiloWatt hours.
Since Americans are charged in KiloWatt hours and not Joules, I think the NYT article was right on...
It seems the obvious answer to this mosquito problem is to genetically alter a male mosquito to only produce Y (male) sperm. That way, only male offspring are produced. These offspring, carrying the Y-only sperm gene, will only produce male offspring who also carrry the gene. Eventually, XY-sperm producing males will be outnumbered and the mosquito population will decrease to zero.
Yes, but Google Earth doesn't run on OSX....
Sometimes loosing a little bit of profit on every sale is better than loosing all profit on every sale. In other words, Intel has to pay the "rent" on their fabs whether they sell any product or not -- they'd better sell for as much as they can get (even at a loss). If Dell isn't shipping their product, they're screwed.
I for one, welcome our singing perpendicular magnetic disk overloards...
Hopefully this will work with my antenna extender sticker!
My wife and I rarely use our Vonage account.
However, we have dialed just about every family member we know of in the last 24-hours trying to get them out to the polls. Since we're both at home, we might as well use our "landline."
DUH!
Sure, maybe so -- but why does it have to be so difficult to get just basic raw audio support?
How about a Free Software Friendly Audio Card to go along with it?
I don't know about others, but I've had *way* more trouble getting audio to work on my linux boxes than I've ever had configuring video.
I already have a job but I'm looking for a gf if any ladies are reading this in Perth West Australia. I am not pathetic.
Sorry for the off the subject reply, but looking for a girlfriend on Slashdot, in a tagline, is indeed pathetic...
Very pathetic... Get a life man!
p.s. The girls that you would want to date are the ones that won't reply to your announcement -- go out and find them... Yes, in public.
Funny that you mention Hawaii and not having net access...
As a software engineer in Maui, I find that Internet access is easier to get here than just about anywhere else on earth (except maybe San Fran). Sure we have some "dead" areas, but if you were taking a class then I'm pretty sure you were in an area with at least a few sources of broadband connectivity.
Hawaii is a hub to several trans-pacific fiber-optic connections. If you call Australia from California, you're probably talking through us.
Successful launch by Romanian rocket scientists -- Mushroom cloud a mere 5,000 miles away on the N. Korean/Chinese border...
Coincidence, I think NOT!
Outsourcing "IT" is like outsourcing "engineering."
If the question or design is simple then it is simply begs for a commodity-based result -- an answer or drawing. This is not to say that the people working on these problems are simple, it's just an issue of language, culture, and time-zone barriers.
America and the UK have proven themselves to be at the forefront of technology -- constantly improving on older developments; driving in directions yet unforseen. This happens daily, and in every sector of the market -- it is continual. Sure, some of our problems can be outsourced because they are simple to convey. However, much of our software and systems are more dynamic than we often admit. These "little" changes and enhancements are what I believe will be the demarcation point between offshore and traditional IT environments.
I don't think many jobs will be lost to foreign markets, because they will remain needed here. However, I think more jobs will be created in these offshored markets because of increased demand.
Couldn't you have just stopped the girls yourself? I mean, really... You witnessed the incident? Just stop them; if they won't tell you who they are -- then hold them until police arrive.
Unfortunately, Willie Nelson spends a significant amount of time here at his home on Maui. Guess what, XM Radio is not available in Hawaii... So much for freedoms. :)
The bad thing is, most of us actually knew what that acronym meant up until ABCDEFG...
Didn't laugh, sorry. I guess I'm getting too old for the Windows jokes here.
Sure this is slashdot, but really... how lame.
Perhaps I'm speaking in the wrong forum, but in coding I often across events in which I have no idea how much data I'll be reading until I'm done.
Shit, this is problem shared by kids' lemonade stands and database developers worldwide.
The world is construed with constantly changing amounts of units. Ask just about any software engineer how many users use his system and he'll say "Ummm, I don't know."
Is he "stupid" because he doesn't know? No, it's no real working model can predict the future of something whose uncertainly of use is based on the number of users who use it.
As I proceed to digress, I have to admit that there are surely situations in which models fit very well, but think about the big picture. If you had to write a "simple" program to calculate 'pi' given any input.... could you do it? If you had to record transactions for a given bank for a given day -- could you magnify that for a million users for a year?... Or for a second?
Expect the unexpected... And deal with it.
My dad did this just to get a chuckle out of the neighbors:
1. Get out your self-propelled "push-style" mower.
2. Measure the cutting width
3. Place a post in the center of your yard that has a diameter equal to or less than the Cutting Width / pi.
4. Tie the inner wheel of the mower to a rope that is fixed on the post.
5. Start mower at edge of yard and as it winds itself around the post, it pulls itself inward toward the center.
6. When finished, trim the edges of the yard and you're done!
Easy cheesy, and it'll make your neighbors think you're bonkers!
Without trying to bemoan the poster's inclusion,
Why does everyone need to mention that 12 is divisible by more real numbers?
12/1, 12/2, 12/3, 12/4, 12/6
10/1, 10/2, 10/5
It seems the only application this would have is for measurement of materials when building something by hand. I've helped frame several homes and spent many hours in a woodshop -- It is exceedingly rare than numbers fall into exact inches. In my experience, I have found myself doing calculations like dividing 31 3/16" by two and adding half the width of a stud (~1 1/2") to it.
Perhaps I'm just bitter, but using Imperial isn't really helping anyone in America... It's just that we're too lazy to change.
I believe that economists would argue that choice of airports are quite possibly a fantastic example of an "inelastic demand curve."
In other words, If the local airport doesn't offer wifi, but one 500 miles away does, am I going to take a Taxi? No way!
Most business travelers choose airports based on the cheapest flight (with their preferred carrier, if possible -- so they get the points).
I would doubt most business travellers have a checkbox on their expense reports listing an addendum: "but this carrier / route had wifi -- so disregard the higher airfare."
This *IS* a business problem... I agree!
I travel by air frequently and would love to hop onto the hotspots that are available within terminals, however the rates are just too high! The time I spend while waiting to board is limited to 2 hours or less usually -- why would I want to pay $20 for a day-long "pass" at this location? Seriously, all I need to do is check my email and maybe hit slashdot. (And no, I don't want to do it on my phone)
If these guys got a clue, they would realize that everyone of us "out there" realizes that this is essentially a "free" service. Short of of the hardware infrastructure and the collection of my billing info -- how much cost is really being incurred by my login?
Don't most porn pages offer a limited subscription for less than $10? Can it be any more difficult than this for Wireless operators? After all, there's probably a lot less data transfer involved.