The wall-wart contains the circuitry that converts 110vac/240vac to low voltage DC. Killing the wall wart means that same circuitry goes into the device, meaning that devices will now be larger by the size of the wall wart.
More sensible would be to simply make everything charge via USB, as USB is already a low-power DC source, and most low power (say 10W and under) devices can be made to work from it. Future versions of USB could even be made to allow higher current delivery, allowing higher draw devices to be connected.
Devices like modem routers though will always have a wall wart, unless you want them to be obscenely large and heavy. I'm happy for those devices to stay as-is however, as the vast majority of them are 12V 1A or below, so I just bought a dozen 12V 1A adapters from eBay once, and now I don't have to worry about losing them as they all work with each others' adapters.
Just remember, as long as the voltage is the same, the adapter can work. Most devices will have their input voltage stamped on them near the power jack, match it with an adapter and off you go. Just make sure that the adapter is capable of delivering as much or more current than necessary.
E.g., a modem router than says "Input 12v 500mA" will work just fine with my standard 12v 1A adapters.
Dutch courage eh?/me hands the Dutch legal fraternity a nice, cold glass of encryption.
Seriously, why don't we all just move to encrypted SIP clients? It's not like there aren't a pile of open source ones out there.Yes, it'll never be mass market, but it's now easy enough for anyone clued up enough to know that they need to be using it.
Failing that, there's always encrypted email. Thunderbird + Enigmail is a no-brainer.
We're all just so glad that US style capitalism won the cold war. USSR style communism would have delivered poor quality goods and services due to poorly allocated capital and human resources. Instead, we get poor quality goods and services due to unfettered abuse of financial and informational inequalities. On the up side, our farmers don't have to give up their crops to the elite. Oh wait, yes they do.
Israel is a state founded by violence (see the bombings and operations conducted by the Haganah and other related organizations such as the King David Hotel).
It is also a state founded on land owned by Muslims, so I don't see why you're so shocked that they were willing to defend it.
It's like Mexico decided that it had too many non-Spanish speaking citizens, and decided to annex Arizona as their new home. I don't see the rest of the US letting the issue go if the Mexicans didn't respond to a round of asking nicely.
That refers to those who attack Muslims first. The Quran explicitly states that any unbeliever who has made any agreement of peace with Muslims is immune from any form of aggression. But don't take my word for it, read the first line of chapter 9 from which you quoted:
There are three translations there, all say pretty much the same thing.
The Islamic rules of warfare starts off with the rule that Muslims are disallowed from casting the first stone, regardless of circumstance. There is no such thing as a "prevantative war" or "pre-emptive strike" in Islam.
Funny, you'll find both of those engaged in repeatedly by the US and Israel.
Opening up to inspections and destroying weapons did nothing to help Iraq avoid an invasion, and only made it a sitting duck when the invasion started. Given what Iran saw happen to Iraq, I'd say there's somewhere between zero and bugger all chance they'll actually reduce their military capability when requested.
Fighting a string of increasingly dubious "preventive wars" will not reduce the number of enemies you have in the world, but increase them.
Tie a knot in an optical cable? Colour me skeptical. I am unaware of any optical material with a decent transmissive efficiency that has that kind of flexibility. Perhaps a polymer of some kind, but it will not be able to take that repeatedly, as the optical transmissiveness is dependent upon the material being fairly structurally dense, which rules out extreme flexibility in all of the polymers that I know of.
IMHO optic fibre has no place in consumer gear. The cable lengths do not necessitate them for high speed transmission, the cost of end devices will always be higher than for wire-devices due to the need to modulate to optical signals and back again, and the possibility of getting dust or dirt into the socket or otherwise abusing the equipment is far higher under consumer product conditions.
Usually when I see someone spouting off, there's at least some argument that can be rebutted, some point that can be countered, some claim that can be disproved or, at least, some myth that can be dispelled. I read this post, over and over, trying to find some way to respond in an intelligent manner, to try to get across a point about this subject that I feel so strongly about. However, try as I might, the only response I could come up with was this: OMGWTFLOLHAHA.
"I'm so sorry I said that." You know, you *can* click cancel when previewing the message. It's not like blurting something crass out at a party about your best mate's wife.
Oh boy, if only there was a "Preview" function in that scenario...
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The wall-wart contains the circuitry that converts 110vac/240vac to low voltage DC. Killing the wall wart means that same circuitry goes into the device, meaning that devices will now be larger by the size of the wall wart.
More sensible would be to simply make everything charge via USB, as USB is already a low-power DC source, and most low power (say 10W and under) devices can be made to work from it. Future versions of USB could even be made to allow higher current delivery, allowing higher draw devices to be connected.
Devices like modem routers though will always have a wall wart, unless you want them to be obscenely large and heavy. I'm happy for those devices to stay as-is however, as the vast majority of them are 12V 1A or below, so I just bought a dozen 12V 1A adapters from eBay once, and now I don't have to worry about losing them as they all work with each others' adapters.
Just remember, as long as the voltage is the same, the adapter can work. Most devices will have their input voltage stamped on them near the power jack, match it with an adapter and off you go. Just make sure that the adapter is capable of delivering as much or more current than necessary.
E.g., a modem router than says "Input 12v 500mA" will work just fine with my standard 12v 1A adapters.
Dutch courage eh? /me hands the Dutch legal fraternity a nice, cold glass of encryption.
Seriously, why don't we all just move to encrypted SIP clients? It's not like there aren't a pile of open source ones out there.Yes, it'll never be mass market, but it's now easy enough for anyone clued up enough to know that they need to be using it.
Failing that, there's always encrypted email. Thunderbird + Enigmail is a no-brainer.
"stick their fingers in the dyke"
Best. Analogy. Ever.
We're all just so glad that US style capitalism won the cold war. USSR style communism would have delivered poor quality goods and services due to poorly allocated capital and human resources. Instead, we get poor quality goods and services due to unfettered abuse of financial and informational inequalities. On the up side, our farmers don't have to give up their crops to the elite. Oh wait, yes they do.
I'm sitting here, with a gigantic bag of popcorn, waiting for the circus that will be the fanboy response to this.
Show starts in 3, 2, 1...
Yes, that's exactly why.
Israel is a state founded by violence (see the bombings and operations conducted by the Haganah and other related organizations such as the King David Hotel).
It is also a state founded on land owned by Muslims, so I don't see why you're so shocked that they were willing to defend it.
It's like Mexico decided that it had too many non-Spanish speaking citizens, and decided to annex Arizona as their new home. I don't see the rest of the US letting the issue go if the Mexicans didn't respond to a round of asking nicely.
Hopefully when the EU does that we'll not get a torrent of ZOMG THE EU HATES US COMPANIES!!
"Hopefully", I guess, in the same way that hopefully I'll get to take a trip to Jupiter on a three winged sabre tooth tiger named "Punky".
Sir, please take your floppy out while we unzip your tarballs.
That refers to those who attack Muslims first. The Quran explicitly states that any unbeliever who has made any agreement of peace with Muslims is immune from any form of aggression. But don't take my word for it, read the first line of chapter 9 from which you quoted:
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/quran/009.qmt.html
There are three translations there, all say pretty much the same thing.
The Islamic rules of warfare starts off with the rule that Muslims are disallowed from casting the first stone, regardless of circumstance. There is no such thing as a "prevantative war" or "pre-emptive strike" in Islam.
Funny, you'll find both of those engaged in repeatedly by the US and Israel.
The US and Israel each have more UN resolutions against them than the rest of the general assembly combined.
Opening up to inspections and destroying weapons did nothing to help Iraq avoid an invasion, and only made it a sitting duck when the invasion started. Given what Iran saw happen to Iraq, I'd say there's somewhere between zero and bugger all chance they'll actually reduce their military capability when requested.
Fighting a string of increasingly dubious "preventive wars" will not reduce the number of enemies you have in the world, but increase them.
Tie a knot in an optical cable? Colour me skeptical. I am unaware of any optical material with a decent transmissive efficiency that has that kind of flexibility. Perhaps a polymer of some kind, but it will not be able to take that repeatedly, as the optical transmissiveness is dependent upon the material being fairly structurally dense, which rules out extreme flexibility in all of the polymers that I know of.
IMHO optic fibre has no place in consumer gear. The cable lengths do not necessitate them for high speed transmission, the cost of end devices will always be higher than for wire-devices due to the need to modulate to optical signals and back again, and the possibility of getting dust or dirt into the socket or otherwise abusing the equipment is far higher under consumer product conditions.
Gillette - Because it's not a close enough shave if you don't need a blood transfusion afterwards.
Usually when I see someone spouting off, there's at least some argument that can be rebutted, some point that can be countered, some claim that can be disproved or, at least, some myth that can be dispelled. I read this post, over and over, trying to find some way to respond in an intelligent manner, to try to get across a point about this subject that I feel so strongly about. However, try as I might, the only response I could come up with was this:
OMGWTFLOLHAHA.
"I'm so sorry I said that."
You know, you *can* click cancel when previewing the message. It's not like blurting something crass out at a party about your best mate's wife.
Oh boy, if only there was a "Preview" function in that scenario...
Because only on Slashdot is it commonly understood that computer viruses can give access to more nukes.
As we say here in Australia: "Aww... diddums"
I'm glad that Slashdot now has a chief economist with such well-considered and comprehensive solutions to the world's problems?
The only way I can come up with an analogy nonsensical enough to involve prejudice and eyes is if it contains a car.
It's neither, turns out it's a Muslim congruent number!
Photo annotation: Here we see the gorgeous Cindy wearing her* sexy slinky evening gown while showing off that fantastic figure of hers.
* That's really a dude.
Wassat? All I can hear is
"They're people! The burgers are people!"
Frosty pissing is painful. I prefer fist posting.
Yea but according to some guy who gave a keynote at some conference, he actually stole the idea from Steve Wozniak.
Ooh, kinky! Wanna go out?