Transformer efficiency can exceed 99%. But since the wireless charging mat is not a perfect transformer (an air gap is not as efficient as a metal core), efficiency will be lower, but I don't see why it can't exceed 90%. Do you have documentation for this low efficiency claim?
Actually, the article does claim a 90% efficiency. However, this is really hard do imagine, as the device won't be perfectly aligned on the mat (or else it would be just too fumbly to use), so I'd expect higher losses than that.
Or do these mats actually somehow sense the device's position, and selectively only switch on those coil parts that are aligned with the device's coil?
Bullshit. I actually did the measurement/calculation: My fully used apartment (with fridge, lights, computer on 24/24 7/7, the occasional dishwasher and washing machine...) uses around 260W on average, i.e. ten times less than what you claim.
If you own stock in a company that is being eyed by KKR (think: Bain Capital) dump it quick.
Why would you dump stock of a take-over target? Just keep it until the take-over at least... stocks usually rise in anticipation of take-over, because the buyer, no matter how incompetent, will usually pay premium for the stock in order to ensure a quick conclusion of take-over... and if the buyer is so incompetent that he doesn't know that he has to do that, he won't be in a position to ruin the company, because he'll never own enough shares in it.
Since it is such a part of the history of/. I propose that we use the ASCII version of Goatse.
The logo is a picture, so why stick to the ASCII version? Just use the current slashdot logo, but instead of the letter o, have you-know-what. At that small size, it wouldn't even be obscene...
They even hinted at such idea, see very last item of "brainstorm" list:
Paleontologists regard birds as the only clade of dinosaurs to have survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 65.5 Ma ago
Methinks somebody didn't understand (nor look up) what the word clade means.
Basically, a clade is a group consisting of a species (extinct or extant) and all its descendants.
So the sentence "Paleontologists regard birds as the only clade of dinosaurs to have survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 65.5 Ma ago." is just a fancy way of saying that birds are the only living things to have descended from dinosaurs (as opposed to also reptiles). Indeed, the reptile species living today are not descendant from the dinosaurs, but are different lineage. However the birds are.
Slashdot Mirror
analog hole [wikipedia.org]
Do I really trust the og enough to click on that link?
How does a project like this even ship without at least one person involved saying "Hey, wait..."?
Nobody will say "Hey, wait..." because everybody wants to keep their job and get the occasional promotion...
Oh, won't that be enteraining when the central DB eventually gets hacked and all the photos are released.
... or when the central DB eventually will be raided by the FBI due to all that kiddy-and-lego porn that will inevitably end up being hosted there...
... or also for flattering reviews?
Transformer efficiency can exceed 99%. But since the wireless charging mat is not a perfect transformer (an air gap is not as efficient as a metal core), efficiency will be lower, but I don't see why it can't exceed 90%. Do you have documentation for this low efficiency claim?
Actually, the article does claim a 90% efficiency. However, this is really hard do imagine, as the device won't be perfectly aligned on the mat (or else it would be just too fumbly to use), so I'd expect higher losses than that.
Or do these mats actually somehow sense the device's position, and selectively only switch on those coil parts that are aligned with the device's coil?
Empty (i.e. just the fridge), its 90W
If you own stock in a company that is being eyed by KKR (think: Bain Capital) dump it quick.
Why would you dump stock of a take-over target? Just keep it until the take-over at least... stocks usually rise in anticipation of take-over, because the buyer, no matter how incompetent, will usually pay premium for the stock in order to ensure a quick conclusion of take-over... and if the buyer is so incompetent that he doesn't know that he has to do that, he won't be in a position to ruin the company, because he'll never own enough shares in it.
Of course you can eat a McIntosh!
An Apple a day keeps the revolutionary at bay!
Well, unless you are the goat man (tm) himself, or the photographer who snapped that infamous pic, this would be somebody else's work...
Binary numbers
...
Digits per se: fingers
Beware of October 4th!
Since it is such a part of the history of /. I propose that we use the ASCII version of Goatse.
The logo is a picture, so why stick to the ASCII version? Just use the current slashdot logo, but instead of the letter o, have you-know-what. At that small size, it wouldn't even be obscene...
They even hinted at such idea, see very last item of "brainstorm" list:
full moons and other events tied to certain days
But then the first condition says:
Every entry should be your own original work
As it is now, it is far too easy for police to frame people by just discretely dropping a bag of coke into somebody's car.
"go to the shopping mall" would be a privilege? And those who don't have it, what will they do? Starve? Have their parents bring them food even at 40?
flying on aircraft is against your religion
... and for Muslims, their religion is against flying on aircraft...
Really, they should trim their fingernails before coming to work
... and then they test the next guy's coffee with the same test strip...
the one handed usage
*snicker*
it would have the wrong mime-type (text/plain instead of text/html)
Theoretically, the phishing page could post the submitted data to some pastebin page (or similar service)
It's a case of only having to outrun your neighbour and not the bear.
Bad idea. Once the bear has caught up with your neighbor, its chase instinct takes over, and then it runs after you.
The best course of action is not to run at all. (but to convince your neighbor to run and thus lure it away might be a good idea...).
Did you grep /dev/kcore or what?
if Mario Andretti was drunk at a party, and looking for a ride home, I'd say yes,
Baaaaad choice. He might just pull the hand-brake on you at critical times, in order to help you make bootleg turns...
Paleontologists regard birds as the only clade of dinosaurs to have survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 65.5 Ma ago
Methinks somebody didn't understand (nor look up) what the word clade means.
Basically, a clade is a group consisting of a species (extinct or extant) and all its descendants.
So the sentence "Paleontologists regard birds as the only clade of dinosaurs to have survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 65.5 Ma ago." is just a fancy way of saying that birds are the only living things to have descended from dinosaurs (as opposed to also reptiles). Indeed, the reptile species living today are not descendant from the dinosaurs, but are different lineage. However the birds are.
You are engrossed in your minesweeper game when someone pops their head into the room and tells you an address you want to note down?
That's what the "boss key" is for...