Set up giant lightning rods in lightning-prone areas with cabling that extends deep underground to chambers filled with water. Use the resulting steam to power turbines. Presto!
Capturing the energy of lightning is intriguing, but not yet feasible for several reasons. First, no one knows exactly where to collect lightning as it does not naturally strike specific places more than a few times a year. Next, conventional storage devices for electricity--like a battery--do not accommodate the magnitude and duration of a powerful flash that lasts only fractions of a second. Finally, about half of the energy of a lightning strike dissipates into light, acoustic energy, and electromagnetic waves. There are ongoing studies to explore the use of laser beams to control lightning. It appears possible that a laser beam can be sent into a cloud that's about ready to generate lightning to "trigger" lightning--and possibly collect its energy in an appropriate storage device.
Still, I guess generating steam to turn turbines isn't the same as trying to store it in some kind of battery or something, but I'd guess the energy is too concentrated, or too much is lost to produce steam--plus, the other two issues they mention.
There are also environmental consequences to being a vegetarian/vegan (though minimized or eliminated if you grow your own without using pesticides and chemical fertilizers).
Or buy organically grown foods. Unfortunately, they're usually, if not always, a bit more expensive, but they're grown without the pesticides and chemical fertilizers you mention.
Off-topic thought to self: I love it when Hy-Vee (for those who don't know, that's a midwestern U.S. grocery store--you can't go to a "big" town out here without seeing one, or, in the case of Davenport, three, maybe more I don't know about) has organic soymilk on sale for the same price as regular.:-)
While it may not be useful for larger sites, it can definitely be useful for smaller sites--and even if it's not incredibly fast (I'm on dial-up and few things are "slow" for me), it will definitely prevent the original site from going down. And that's normally a good thing.
I don't consider the Mini an economy option. It's 4 GB for almost the same price. I suppose it's good if you really need something that small--dimension-wise and disk-space-wise--but if not, the regular iPod has a lot more space and doesn't cost that much more.
A real economy option for me would be the reintroduction of a 15 GB iPod. Or a regular-size but less expensive 4- or 5-GB model. Anything that would take the cost down. At the moment, the Dell DJ (please don't hurt me) looks most appealing because I'm not concerned about ease of use (iPods are supposedly easy to use, but I really think I could learn something else, especailly with a manual of some sort) and because I'm on a budget ($199 for 15 GB? why not?).
Not to go too far off topic, but DVD-Burning Appliance is indeed correct because DVD-burning is hyphenated. This signals that these two words are acting as a single adjective for the word to follow (i.e, appliance). It's not a burning appliance, it's a DVD-burning appliance.
That said, they've been known to correct errors after posting, so if they did put in the hypen after the fact, then ignore me.:-)
Windows XP can run on 640x480; it's just hidden by default because they don't want you to. (And you really shouldn't either, because it won't be pleasant.) It is still accessible with List All Modes (Advanced > Adapter).
That said, the other poster has mentioned Tablet Edition.
Basically, you can make up any e-mail address, say foobar2004@mailinator.com and go and check it later. All you have to do is type in your chosen name and check for mail. It's useful for websites you don't really trust (but not for those you might continually receive useful mail from). And, of course, it's incredibly unsuitable for any personal information, since anyone can check any "account" if they can guess its name. And e-mails only stay for a certain number of hours/days. But for quick signups that just require some sort of e-mail address, it works.
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Set up giant lightning rods in lightning-prone areas with cabling that extends deep underground to chambers filled with water. Use the resulting steam to power turbines. Presto!
Unfortunately, at the moment, that idea really isn't possible. From http://www.lightningstorm.com/tux/jsp/faq/index.js p
Still, I guess generating steam to turn turbines isn't the same as trying to store it in some kind of battery or something, but I'd guess the energy is too concentrated, or too much is lost to produce steam--plus, the other two issues they mention.
There are also environmental consequences to being a vegetarian/vegan (though minimized or eliminated if you grow your own without using pesticides and chemical fertilizers).
Or buy organically grown foods. Unfortunately, they're usually, if not always, a bit more expensive, but they're grown without the pesticides and chemical fertilizers you mention.
Off-topic thought to self: I love it when Hy-Vee (for those who don't know, that's a midwestern U.S. grocery store--you can't go to a "big" town out here without seeing one, or, in the case of Davenport, three, maybe more I don't know about) has organic soymilk on sale for the same price as regular. :-)
Actually, it'd be "we", which avoids the U.S. pun, but I suppose this isn't grammar.slashdot.org... ;-)
While it may not be useful for larger sites, it can definitely be useful for smaller sites--and even if it's not incredibly fast (I'm on dial-up and few things are "slow" for me), it will definitely prevent the original site from going down. And that's normally a good thing.
The site is already getting quite slow... better save it here for posterity :-)
Or use the Coral cache version (remember, just appennd .nyud.net:8090 after the domain--I don't know why Slashdot doesn't do this more often): http://www.physorg.com.nyud.net:8090/news1630.html
The real question ... is can you install Firefox and use it instead of Internet Explorer?
I don't consider the Mini an economy option. It's 4 GB for almost the same price. I suppose it's good if you really need something that small--dimension-wise and disk-space-wise--but if not, the regular iPod has a lot more space and doesn't cost that much more.
A real economy option for me would be the reintroduction of a 15 GB iPod. Or a regular-size but less expensive 4- or 5-GB model. Anything that would take the cost down. At the moment, the Dell DJ (please don't hurt me) looks most appealing because I'm not concerned about ease of use (iPods are supposedly easy to use, but I really think I could learn something else, especailly with a manual of some sort) and because I'm on a budget ($199 for 15 GB? why not?).
Not to go too far off topic, but DVD-Burning Appliance is indeed correct because DVD-burning is hyphenated. This signals that these two words are acting as a single adjective for the word to follow (i.e, appliance). It's not a burning appliance, it's a DVD-burning appliance. That said, they've been known to correct errors after posting, so if they did put in the hypen after the fact, then ignore me. :-)
Windows XP can run on 640x480; it's just hidden by default because they don't want you to. (And you really shouldn't either, because it won't be pleasant.) It is still accessible with List All Modes (Advanced > Adapter). That said, the other poster has mentioned Tablet Edition.
Have you head of Mailinator?
Basically, you can make up any e-mail address, say foobar2004@mailinator.com and go and check it later. All you have to do is type in your chosen name and check for mail. It's useful for websites you don't really trust (but not for those you might continually receive useful mail from). And, of course, it's incredibly unsuitable for any personal information, since anyone can check any "account" if they can guess its name. And e-mails only stay for a certain number of hours/days. But for quick signups that just require some sort of e-mail address, it works.
If you think your mind is numb from the animated GIFs, whatever you do, don't to a View > Page Source! The first tag is a ... a ... TABLE!
(Yes, that's right, there's supposedly a table before even the opening HTML tag.)