If you live in California and use 1.2KWh/day (36KWh in a month) your monthly PG&E bill (at 13c/KWh) would be $3.99. Anyone from California have a PG&E bill that low, or even close? Mine is usually in the $20-25 range and most people consider that to be very low.
I wonder what accounts for the difference. What kind of refrigerator is typical in an apartment in Switzerland? In the USA you usually get a full-size fridge like what a family with 2 or 3 kids would use. Do people leave computers on 24/7 over there like in the USA?
why the hell are you booting in a meeting? it should already be up and ready to go.
If your car is a piece of crap, you might find yourself restarting it in the middle of an intersection. If your operating system is a piece of crap, you might find yourself restarting it in the middle of a meeting.
Somehow you need to account for the possibility of your current provider changing its policy. Taking the parent's suggestion into account, we could rewrite the code as:
/* Function WaitUntilPolicyChange returns when we are notified that the current provider has changed its policy. For example, the notification could be a letter from the provider or a story on Slashdot.*/ while(1) {
if( $provider_caps_unlimited_service )
{
if ( $providers_without_caps.length > 1 )
{
switch_providers($providers_without_caps[0]);
}
}
WaitUntilPolicyChange; }
Maybe you only have a license to run the processor at the "authorized" speed, and if you mess around with it to turn it into something other than what it was sold to you as, you have defeated a protection mechanism and violated the DMCA. Did you read the EULA that came with your processor?
They'll almost certainly assign a unique ID to each chip. So, if you turn in a bunch of chips that all have the same id number, it would be like going into the bank and depositing $1000 in twenties all of which have identical serial numbers.
If, as you seem to suggest, you compile a list of valid ID numbers, they can still get you because they could store data on where the chip is located. If the computer tells the cashier that half the chips you're turning in are supposed to be in the vault, you're busted.
Although Moore's law has since the 1970s been defined in terms of the number of transistors on a chip, it is common to refer to Moore's law in reference to the rapid continuing advance in computing power per dollar cost.
A similar progression has held for hard disk storage available per dollar cost - in fact, the rate of progression in disk storage over the past 10 years or so has actually been faster than for semiconductors--although, largely because of production cost issues, hard drive performance increases have lagged significantly.
I don't think this will work too well for the spammers. When was the last time you got a legitimate email containing "lippincott" or "monoceros" or "emmanuel?" The Bayesian filter will notice that words like this only show up in spam, and the next email you get with "lippincott" in it goes to the spam folder. This is particularly true if the spammers get lazy and reuse the same set of "random" words.
As for spammers training your filter to accept spam, I think the spammers would have to be really sophisticated to pull that off. They would have to guess which words show up in your legitimate email but not in your spam. For my work email, for example, that would probably be things like technical jargon, coworkers' names, product names - stuff the spammers won't be able to guess (and that will vary from one person to the next). So even if spammers add random dictionary words to their spams, there will still be individual words that are far more common in legitimate email than they are in spam, and the spammers' plot will fail.
It might be a good law (there's not a lot of evidence either way), but almost all of these laws ban using a hand held cell phone while allowing hands-free cell phones. Some studies have been done that show that hands-free cell phones are just as distracting as hand held phones. In other words, it's talking to another person that's the distraction, not holding the phone. To me. this means that none of these laws has really been thought through very well, and we should wait until we know what we're doing before we go around passing a bunch of laws that may or may not actually do anyone any good.
Sometimes poorly thought out laws can accomplish the opposite of what they were supposed to accomplish. A while ago, someone proposed banning infants from sitting on a parent's lap on airplanes (and making the parent buy a separate ticket). Problem is, this would have caused a lot of parents to drive instead of fly (plane tickets aren't cheap), and driving is far more dangerous than flying regardless of where the baby sits on the plane. I don't think this one ever passed.
Slashdot Mirror
Diamonds -- Are they really worth the cost?.
Yet another example of what I'm talking about.
If you live in California and use 1.2KWh/day (36KWh in a month) your monthly PG&E bill (at 13c/KWh) would be $3.99. Anyone from California have a PG&E bill that low, or even close? Mine is usually in the $20-25 range and most people consider that to be very low.
I wonder what accounts for the difference. What kind of refrigerator is typical in an apartment in Switzerland? In the USA you usually get a full-size fridge like what a family with 2 or 3 kids would use. Do people leave computers on 24/7 over there like in the USA?
Unfortunately, you're right. For example, in a survey last year, 70% of Americans thought there was a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.
It would cost 3 times as much to buy one of these cards as it would to fill it up with (4MB) songs from ITMS.
why the hell are you booting in a meeting? it should already be up and ready to go.
If your car is a piece of crap, you might find yourself restarting it in the middle of an intersection. If your operating system is a piece of crap, you might find yourself restarting it in the middle of a meeting.
We can help each other. We host the political dissent websites and they host the mp3s.
while(1)
{
if( $provider_caps_unlimited_service )
{
if ( $providers_without_caps.length > 1 )
{
switch_providers($providers_without_caps[0]);
}
}
WaitUntilPolicyChange;
}
This story has received 1220 comments, including this one.
Total crapflood comments: 996
Comments discussing the crapflood: 59
Comments scored at -1 (not included above): 27
Legitimate, on-topic comments: 138
Distribution of comment scores:
Score Crap- Discuss Non- Total
flood Crap- Crap-
flood flood
-1 996. 21. 27. 1,044.
0 0. 10. 36. 46.
1 0. 16. 33. 49.
2 0. 9. 38. 47.
3 0. 1. 7. 8.
4 0. 0. 4. 4.
5 0. 2. 20. 22.
(sorry about the periods. The lameness filter made me put them in.)
It already exists. It's called the Mute button.
If you take one cent, and double it, you get two cents.
In other news, Slashdot trolls hope and pray that the Christmas Islands never get hit with a similarly devastating typhoon.
Maybe you only have a license to run the processor at the "authorized" speed, and if you mess around with it to turn it into something other than what it was sold to you as, you have defeated a protection mechanism and violated the DMCA. Did you read the EULA that came with your processor?
They'll almost certainly assign a unique ID to each chip. So, if you turn in a bunch of chips that all have the same id number, it would be like going into the bank and depositing $1000 in twenties all of which have identical serial numbers.
If, as you seem to suggest, you compile a list of valid ID numbers, they can still get you because they could store data on where the chip is located. If the computer tells the cashier that half the chips you're turning in are supposed to be in the vault, you're busted.
Although Moore's law has since the 1970s been defined in terms of the number of transistors on a chip, it is common to refer to Moore's law in reference to the rapid continuing advance in computing power per dollar cost.
A similar progression has held for hard disk storage available per dollar cost - in fact, the rate of progression in disk storage over the past 10 years or so has actually been faster than for semiconductors--although, largely because of production cost issues, hard drive performance increases have lagged significantly.
Link
From: Boss@personalispaccount.com
To: Employee@work.com
Priority: Extremely Urgent
Michael,
The TPS report for 3Q03 NPT TLAs is late. Please attach HEL and HPQ-4 to GNAA and send (w/TPS) to VP of Ops by EOD.
Thx, Ackbar
I don't think this will work too well for the spammers. When was the last time you got a legitimate email containing "lippincott" or "monoceros" or "emmanuel?" The Bayesian filter will notice that words like this only show up in spam, and the next email you get with "lippincott" in it goes to the spam folder. This is particularly true if the spammers get lazy and reuse the same set of "random" words.
As for spammers training your filter to accept spam, I think the spammers would have to be really sophisticated to pull that off. They would have to guess which words show up in your legitimate email but not in your spam. For my work email, for example, that would probably be things like technical jargon, coworkers' names, product names - stuff the spammers won't be able to guess (and that will vary from one person to the next). So even if spammers add random dictionary words to their spams, there will still be individual words that are far more common in legitimate email than they are in spam, and the spammers' plot will fail.
the total daily data for a single Martian day, direct-to-Earth and orbiter relay potential combined, is on the order of 17MB.
It takes one day to copy a 17 Meg file from Mars to Earth? That's faster than my Mac! Not that I'm trying to start a holy war here or anything.
Slashdot is on the Stardust microchip.
The spammers are probably just taking some time off around the holidays like everyone else. It'll go back up next week.
It might be a good law (there's not a lot of evidence either way), but almost all of these laws ban using a hand held cell phone while allowing hands-free cell phones. Some studies have been done that show that hands-free cell phones are just as distracting as hand held phones. In other words, it's talking to another person that's the distraction, not holding the phone. To me. this means that none of these laws has really been thought through very well, and we should wait until we know what we're doing before we go around passing a bunch of laws that may or may not actually do anyone any good.
Sometimes poorly thought out laws can accomplish the opposite of what they were supposed to accomplish. A while ago, someone proposed banning infants from sitting on a parent's lap on airplanes (and making the parent buy a separate ticket). Problem is, this would have caused a lot of parents to drive instead of fly (plane tickets aren't cheap), and driving is far more dangerous than flying regardless of where the baby sits on the plane. I don't think this one ever passed.
And you thought /.ers had a hard time finding chicks... be glad you're not a carp.
You'd better hope that this troll doesn't know what he's talking about.
And maybe later on, we can have a global tribal council and vote Bush off the island.
What does a song marked "(Edited)" mean?
An "edited" song is an alternate version of a song that has been recorded without explicit lyrics.