Interesting, but how much energy does it take to run this thing?
From the abstract: "Here, we demonstrate an energy consumption of 0.29 Wh lâ"1 for the removal of 25% salt using this novel desalination battery, which is promising when compared to reverse osmosis ( 0.2 Wh lâ"1), the most efficient technique presently available."
My first impression was that this is was largely just an academic project / exercise, there are other way more interesting applications for these nanorods. 15 times the energy to remove only 25% of the salt? geez, I guess it works, but not to make potable water in any quantity.
Reverse osmosis is already deployed at a comparatively low cost, and scales very well, I don't see this or anything else displacing that as a desalination process any time in the near (or even somewhat further) future.
The Japanese Cigarette vending machines with facial recognition were pulled, when they discovered that holding up a scale photo or magazine picture would pass the age check.
Bandwidth is actually insanely expensive outside the US. There's a long way to go before ISPs in other countries adopt similar pricing regimes which allow for kind of usage OnLive requires, and even then it is dubious whether or not OnLive will be able to maintain a physical presence in enough countries to let it displace traditional consoles.
I pay USD$44 per month for unmetered unthrottled 100Mbps down / 50Mbps up fibre from outside of the USA. Australians have it rough, most of them have a 30GB monthly transfer limit before egregious charges per MB kick in.
So their point is if IPs change, and it is hard to figure out who broke the law, law enforcement might as well just give up?
I'm all for sharing of information and media freely. Hell! I pirate the shit out of everything, but this is the worst argument for it I have ever heard.
The argument is equivalent to: A murderer used many cars during his escape, since it is hard to pinpoint which one is his we should give up.
I think the judge was out of line. I think a blogger should be treated like any other kind of speech or printing press. If the guy published a newspaper, a judge might order him to stop writing nasty editorials about his ex, but he wouldn't (likely couldn't) order the newspaper to shut down.
I see your point, but I liken this to starting your own newspaper for the sole purpose of telling the world how much of a psychotic bitch your ex was, and then trying to sell your paper to her friends, family and business colleagues.
He is doing the rest of the Minnesota Male population a favour if he speaks the truth though:P
Large institutions (especially financial ones) do this because of the enhanced plausible deniability. It's to much easier to blame IBM for your outage / downtime / boo boos, instead of admitting you have poor internal IT practices and infrastructure.
Just go the Call of Duty Route and have a prompt at game start to disable offensive content. It could turn all humanoid targets into low poly count giant spiders.
actually I consider obsessions with japanese culture to be an extension of inferiority complex that comes from low self esteem. A slashdot without so much of that is a benefit. the people i've known like that were truly pathetic as they'd put japan on a pedestal and try their damnedest to act, think, and look like stereotypical japanese. of course they weren't fooling anyone and just ended up looking like total idiots. I'd also think that a genuine japanese would find this behavior somewhat offensive.
It's funny, we say the same thing about American culture in Asia.
Anyone else find that racist? It is equivalent to a story about black people calling it "golden fried chicken bucket". It's a lame stereotype. Can we not have these in the front page please?
The "Iron Rice Bowl" is actually an actual Chinese expression generally used to refer to a career in the Government service / Civil service. So it's not exactly racist. It's similar to the "Golden Parachutes" that they use to refer to Western severance packages.
I'd much rather sit back on my couch while playing games than sitting in my office behind a desk playing PC games. While yes, PCs can be upgraded faster, graphics are usually better, etc., that doesn't make up for the comfort of couch-gaming.
Buy a more comfortable computer chair or couch..I've contemplated buying a La-Z boy for my computing chair..
Why are people still listening to this guy? The most relevant things he's done in the last decade are tie himself to doomed MMO projects and buy himself a ticket on a spaceship.
He also built a castle-like house! But yeah, even before the failure of Tabula Rasa, Garriot has been becoming increasingly irrelevant by the year since his sale of Origin to EA in 1992. There is a generation of console raised gamers who wouldn't even recognize the name now.
EA is an American company. The US currently does not allow exports of most things to Iran, including software, and doing so may qualify as a capital offense (treason). Iranian residents were unlikely to purchase BF3 regardless of how the Iranian gov't decided.
Not just that, the hardware to run it (PC or console) is not exportable to Iran either (officially)
Coral given ideal (artificial) growth conditions such as those in Marine Aquarists' tanks can actually grow fairly rapidly.
In the Marine Aquarist Community both Soft (LPS) and Hard (SPS) coral is usually traded as "frags" (fragments or cuttings off a mother colony,) and they can more than quadruple in size over the course of a year given ideal flow, nutrient, light and water chemistry conditions.
Can you come round and run some Cat5 from my bedroom to my living room and charge me nothing for the cable and trunking, and nothing for your time and expertise?
No? So how is wired cheaper then?
How is it cheaper? Hmm let me see.
Because when your network in unstable and I have to come down every other day to reposition your router and reset it, I have to bill you for each and every trip in perpetuity.
Because when your staff are having problems accessing the internet/intranet/printer you are losing more man hours a day for the rest of your business' existence in that particular location of operation?
Because the average home user would prefer to have their PC working and staying connected to the Internet each and every time they power it on or wake it up?
I can think of more ways, but let me know if you still need more persuasion.
Apple is the company that should buy them, and use iOS & Lion to do w/ them what WP7 does w/ Bing and Android does w/ Google. That's the only buyer that makes sense. Otherwise, which Yahoo! services are so valuable to make it worth adding another redundant search engine to the ones they already have? Hotjobs? Yahoo! Groups? Which ones?
Why? When they can just lock their user base into an iSearch, iJobs, iGroups? The interface will look even better and the search results will essentially be the same anyway.
Yahoo does have some value to Microsoft. Its news, weather, and finance services are widely used. Users of those services overlap with Microsoft's customer base, and are good advertising targets for the things Microsoft sells.
Unfortunately they (and everyone else) can develop and implement those services themselves at a fraction of the cost of acquiring them from Yahoo.
So doctors "break-even" with engineers after maybe 5 years out of residency. In the meantime, who do you think was having more fun?
I agree, except that beyond the break even point the doctor's annual income will far outstrip the engineer's until the end of their respective economical lifespans.
Do not use wireless devices. Use cable connections in all that is possible.
I usually tell this to my corporate and residential customers also, why would you want to go wireless when you can run everything wired, and have it running, cheaper, faster and more stably?
The main reason they give is the unsightly wiring or additional trunking to the installation, the rest of the wiring is often concealed in their homes or offices and they didn't think to add Cat5E or Cat6 to their infrastructure when they renovated.
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Buy yourself another laptop.
Because when I travel for work, I like to lug around 2 laptops.
Because if you enjoy travelling for work, you should try your best not to do things that might result in your termination.
What? no 100 Underwater Basket Weaving??
Buy yourself another laptop.
From the abstract: "Here, we demonstrate an energy consumption of 0.29 Wh lâ"1 for the removal of 25% salt using this novel desalination battery, which is promising when compared to reverse osmosis ( 0.2 Wh lâ"1), the most efficient technique presently available."
My first impression was that this is was largely just an academic project / exercise, there are other way more interesting applications for these nanorods. 15 times the energy to remove only 25% of the salt? geez, I guess it works, but not to make potable water in any quantity.
Reverse osmosis is already deployed at a comparatively low cost, and scales very well, I don't see this or anything else displacing that as a desalination process any time in the near (or even somewhat further) future.
The Japanese Cigarette vending machines with facial recognition were pulled, when they discovered that holding up a scale photo or magazine picture would pass the age check.
How much for the model with the Heads Up Display?
Bandwidth is actually insanely expensive outside the US. There's a long way to go before ISPs in other countries adopt similar pricing regimes which allow for kind of usage OnLive requires, and even then it is dubious whether or not OnLive will be able to maintain a physical presence in enough countries to let it displace traditional consoles.
I pay USD$44 per month for unmetered unthrottled 100Mbps down / 50Mbps up fibre from outside of the USA.
Australians have it rough, most of them have a 30GB monthly transfer limit before egregious charges per MB kick in.
So their point is if IPs change, and it is hard to figure out who broke the law, law enforcement might as well just give up?
I'm all for sharing of information and media freely. Hell! I pirate the shit out of everything, but this is the worst argument for it I have ever heard.
The argument is equivalent to: A murderer used many cars during his escape, since it is hard to pinpoint which one is his we should give up.
Then obviously we should ban cars.
I think the judge was out of line.
I think a blogger should be treated like any other kind of speech or printing press. If the guy published a newspaper, a judge might order him to stop writing nasty editorials about his ex, but he wouldn't (likely couldn't) order the newspaper to shut down.
I see your point, but I liken this to starting your own newspaper for the sole purpose of telling the world how much of a psychotic bitch your ex was, and then trying to sell your paper to her friends, family and business colleagues.
He is doing the rest of the Minnesota Male population a favour if he speaks the truth though :P
Large institutions (especially financial ones) do this because of the enhanced plausible deniability.
It's to much easier to blame IBM for your outage / downtime / boo boos, instead of admitting you have poor internal IT practices and infrastructure.
Just go the Call of Duty Route and have a prompt at game start to disable offensive content. It could turn all humanoid targets into low poly count giant spiders.
actually I consider obsessions with japanese culture to be an extension of inferiority complex that comes from low self esteem. A slashdot without so much of that is a benefit. the people i've known like that were truly pathetic as they'd put japan on a pedestal and try their damnedest to act, think, and look like stereotypical japanese. of course they weren't fooling anyone and just ended up looking like total idiots. I'd also think that a genuine japanese would find this behavior somewhat offensive.
It's funny, we say the same thing about American culture in Asia.
but they have also become 'golden rice bowls'
Anyone else find that racist? It is equivalent to a story about black people calling it "golden fried chicken bucket". It's a lame stereotype. Can we not have these in the front page please?
The "Iron Rice Bowl" is actually an actual Chinese expression generally used to refer to a career in the Government service / Civil service. So it's not exactly racist. It's similar to the "Golden Parachutes" that they use to refer to Western severance packages.
At least they achieved something...blowing through 40 million dollars in 6 years for a vaporware product is pretty impressive.
I'd much rather sit back on my couch while playing games than sitting in my office behind a desk playing PC games. While yes, PCs can be upgraded faster, graphics are usually better, etc., that doesn't make up for the comfort of couch-gaming.
Buy a more comfortable computer chair or couch..I've contemplated buying a La-Z boy for my computing chair..
Why are people still listening to this guy? The most relevant things he's done in the last decade are tie himself to doomed MMO projects and buy himself a ticket on a spaceship.
He also built a castle-like house! But yeah, even before the failure of Tabula Rasa, Garriot has been becoming increasingly irrelevant by the year since his sale of Origin to EA in 1992. There is a generation of console raised gamers who wouldn't even recognize the name now.
EA is an American company. The US currently does not allow exports of most things to Iran, including software, and doing so may qualify as a capital offense (treason). Iranian residents were unlikely to purchase BF3 regardless of how the Iranian gov't decided.
Not just that, the hardware to run it (PC or console) is not exportable to Iran either (officially)
Speaking of this, how does one exactly break into this hobby?
The easiest way is to have friends who are into it, or friends that you can sucker into it...
Coral given ideal (artificial) growth conditions such as those in Marine Aquarists' tanks can actually grow fairly rapidly.
In the Marine Aquarist Community both Soft (LPS) and Hard (SPS) coral is usually traded as "frags" (fragments or cuttings off a mother colony,) and they can
more than quadruple in size over the course of a year given ideal flow, nutrient, light and water chemistry conditions.
Can you come round and run some Cat5 from my bedroom to my living room and charge me nothing for the cable and trunking, and nothing for your time and expertise?
No? So how is wired cheaper then?
How is it cheaper? Hmm let me see.
Because when your network in unstable and I have to come down every other day to reposition your router and reset it, I have to bill you for each and every trip in perpetuity.
Because when your staff are having problems accessing the internet/intranet/printer you are losing more man hours a day for the rest of your business' existence in that particular location of operation?
Because the average home user would prefer to have their PC working and staying connected to the Internet each and every time they power it on or wake it up?
I can think of more ways, but let me know if you still need more persuasion.
Apple is the company that should buy them, and use iOS & Lion to do w/ them what WP7 does w/ Bing and Android does w/ Google. That's the only buyer that makes sense. Otherwise, which Yahoo! services are so valuable to make it worth adding another redundant search engine to the ones they already have? Hotjobs? Yahoo! Groups? Which ones?
Why? When they can just lock their user base into an iSearch, iJobs, iGroups? The interface will look even better and the search results will essentially be the same anyway.
Yahoo does have some value to Microsoft. Its news, weather, and finance services are widely used. Users of those services overlap with Microsoft's customer base, and are good advertising targets for the things Microsoft sells.
Unfortunately they (and everyone else) can develop and implement those services themselves at a fraction of the cost of acquiring them from Yahoo.
So doctors "break-even" with engineers after maybe 5 years out of residency. In the meantime, who do you think was having more fun?
I agree, except that beyond the break even point the doctor's annual income will far outstrip the engineer's until the end of their respective economical lifespans.
Do not use wireless devices. Use cable connections in all that is possible.
I usually tell this to my corporate and residential customers also, why would you want to go wireless when
you can run everything wired, and have it running, cheaper, faster and more stably?
The main reason they give is the unsightly wiring or additional trunking to the installation, the rest of the wiring is often concealed in their
homes or offices and they didn't think to add Cat5E or Cat6 to their infrastructure when they renovated.
Dell super video is much good. Much much gooder than standard picture. Definition is very high! Don't buy cheap standard video!
Buy Dell video, I rating A++++++++++! Very happy very sharp picture!