It's not about effectiveness. It's about proving that solar panel and electrics have come far enough to actually do this. This is a first and it's a technology showcase. Now we have a record time and some other crew with a more efficient solar only boat will probably try to beat it.
First non-stop trip around the world in a solar boat? First solo crew trip around the world in a solar boat? Expect Richard Branson to get into the race, once the time to complete a trip will fit into his schedule.
Superstition and religion will always find a platform. Don't get "the Internet" involved in this please. If people want to believe something, it's their right and if they want to pay money to others to tell them what to believe, it's their right too. If some person or group is able to make a career out of that, fine. As long as they keep it private and don't change the law over it, or start wars, I don't see a problem with that.
The RIAA isn't a government organization. Maybe the government should at least stop to do anything the RIAA wants until after a court case has run it's course and the RIAA has actually won, including all the possible appeals. That would save a lot of time and money, both in the court and outside.
They "lied" to the FBI (That would qualify as "a federal agent" right) that they had proof that this site was doing something illegal. They never came up with the proof. That would be a criminal action, because they knew they were not able to prove anything when they made the statement. That would make them a criminal racketeering organization and the only real option for a judge would be to confiscate all their belongings and render them illegal.
Maybe we should all say that copyright laws only apply if you pay taxes in that country? That will make them think twice about going to tax havens with no legal system that will endorse their claims of piracy, trademark or copyright violation.
Or they may cancel your rights to play the media you bought especially for this computer because they think their new product will make them more money, even if you are willing to pay them a monthly fee to continue the service, as you've been doing for years.
Or, alternatively, you could install freeware that obviously will be developed that will play your media without the hassle of DRM or ransomware.
The Internet has been made to detect problems and route around it. It has always done so and will probably do so again with this silly proposal. Blocking websites hasn't worked one bit, blocking P2P traffic has proven impossible and now they want people to only get online if they give up their anonymity? I doubt this is going to ever get air borne if no website except a few government sites will ever require it.
16 bit per color editing? Import is nice, but if the first step is to toss 8 of those 16 bits, it's still useless for proper photo editing, which is what a lot of people that do screen graphics do, would like to do.
If they're not at street corners, you should be looking elsewhere if you want to find actual terrorists. Creating your own to glorify your existence should be punished by society. Come on, they just admitted they're not very good at their actual assignment so they make something up to look good. if you look long and hard enough, you'll find someone gullible and disgruntled enough to try and do something illegal. That's a fact of life. They weren't put in office to find those gullible people, but to prevent the real bad guys from finding them. No matter hard you try, the real bad guys will always find one, so you're not actually preventing anything, other than tax money being put to proper use. Stop doing the terrorists job and start doing your own, find the real criminals and terrorists. Oh what? There are so few terrorists, you can't really find any? Well maybe you should put an end to the whole charade and start working on the economy and the environment for a little while.
What on earth are you blabbing about? What application was having trouble converting e-mail and how would that be OpenSuSEs fault? Also why did you try and install a debug version of KDE on a production machine? That's development material, not production.
Reinstalling from scratch is a Windows click monkey solution. With Linux, if you have problems, you should fix them on the machine, because re-installs will have you end up in exactly the same spot of trouble you were before.
The way you tend to try to solve your computer problems, you are just a horror to do tech support for, regardless of what OS you are using. All operating systems suffer trouble, most of them being the users themselves and you are one prime example of that. Sure, "computers should be user friendly", but the way you are using a computer, you'll end up with one schizophrenic box indeed.
There was clear evidence that Google violated laws. True, probably not USA laws, but they did the same in other countries where laws existed that made this illegal at the time.
Does this apply to all USA data keepers, so foreign customers that make use of these systems as well? This could (probably would) mean that most of the European businesses that use services from USA companies are now forced to cancel their business, due to European privacy laws forbidding them to do business with companies that will not uphold the European privacy laws. Could someone explain if I need to move large amounts of data and services out of the USA now please?
I doubt Google will offer a bonus for "generic" Linux bugs, even if they effect android. This makes the suggestion that Linux would benefit rather implausible, since hackers that are in it for the money will either sit on the bug and keep it to themselves, or sell it to others that are willing to offer enough money.
1 billion Papiermark (Germany) wasn't worth a lot as well, in 1922. Maybe the figure has more to tell about the value of the US Dollar than it has about the value of the company in question?
Although your comments apply to me and probably a lot of slashdotters, the vast majority of sheeple on this planet buy stuff and services if they are targeted with ads for those at the right time. This is a numbers game, played on individuals, not an individuals game played in numbers.
For US residents that have trouble understanding metrics: it was traveling at 3 hours walking per second, considering you wouldn't stop once for fast food for those three hours. In those three hours, the meteor would have circled the earth four times at the speed of entry
People bread like rabbits once there is enough food and water to go around. They do anyway, but the infant mortality rate is high and migration to barren areas is very limited. Once there's food, water and safety, large groups of people migrate and breed. In just one or two generations, the country will be densely populated and there will once again be a shortage of resources.
What about the amount of energy used to generate the page at the web server? Big, dynamic web pages requiring lots of database hits, disk IO, cpu cycles cost more energy to generate. Large pages cost more energy to transmit over networks. Complicated javascript pages, flash and java content cost more energy to generate on the computer that has to render them to display them. The same applies for compressed media, like images, sound and movies. Animated media costs more than static media too to display. Has anybody looked at those factors?
How much trouble do you think power companies are having to keep voltage and frequency of the AC net within nominal parameters? They constantly juggle with the amount of fuel and sometimes the amount of power plants connected to the grid. The amount of electricity produced is exactly the amount that is being demanded, nothing more, nothing less. If that wasn't the case, you'd be paying for every kWh you could possibly consume, because they had to produce it for you, whether you use it or not.
It didn't sell 200 million copies because it was the best program available, but because companies got bundles, have upgrade contracts and are already using older versions. Since the older versions no longer get updates, or will not get them in the near future, companies decide to upgrade. They seldom re-evaluate the competution, but just buy "the lastest version" and get unpleasant surprises like a lot of users not being able to do their regular work with the ribbon.
If they would seriously investigate what office suite would be best to purchase, before accepting the bundle or upgrading to the latest version of what they already have, I'm fairly certain that about half, maybe more of those 200M would not have been sold. Yes, I'm saying half. Word 2010 may be an annoyance, but it's still one of the better document editors around for general office use by office staff.
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It's not about effectiveness. It's about proving that solar panel and electrics have come far enough to actually do this. This is a first and it's a technology showcase. Now we have a record time and some other crew with a more efficient solar only boat will probably try to beat it.
First non-stop trip around the world in a solar boat? First solo crew trip around the world in a solar boat? Expect Richard Branson to get into the race, once the time to complete a trip will fit into his schedule.
Superstition and religion will always find a platform. Don't get "the Internet" involved in this please. If people want to believe something, it's their right and if they want to pay money to others to tell them what to believe, it's their right too. If some person or group is able to make a career out of that, fine. As long as they keep it private and don't change the law over it, or start wars, I don't see a problem with that.
The RIAA isn't a government organization. Maybe the government should at least stop to do anything the RIAA wants until after a court case has run it's course and the RIAA has actually won, including all the possible appeals. That would save a lot of time and money, both in the court and outside.
They "lied" to the FBI (That would qualify as "a federal agent" right) that they had proof that this site was doing something illegal. They never came up with the proof. That would be a criminal action, because they knew they were not able to prove anything when they made the statement. That would make them a criminal racketeering organization and the only real option for a judge would be to confiscate all their belongings and render them illegal.
Maybe we should all say that copyright laws only apply if you pay taxes in that country? That will make them think twice about going to tax havens with no legal system that will endorse their claims of piracy, trademark or copyright violation.
Or they may cancel your rights to play the media you bought especially for this computer because they think their new product will make them more money, even if you are willing to pay them a monthly fee to continue the service, as you've been doing for years.
Or, alternatively, you could install freeware that obviously will be developed that will play your media without the hassle of DRM or ransomware.
The Internet has been made to detect problems and route around it. It has always done so and will probably do so again with this silly proposal. Blocking websites hasn't worked one bit, blocking P2P traffic has proven impossible and now they want people to only get online if they give up their anonymity? I doubt this is going to ever get air borne if no website except a few government sites will ever require it.
16 bit per color editing? Import is nice, but if the first step is to toss 8 of those 16 bits, it's still useless for proper photo editing, which is what a lot of people that do screen graphics do, would like to do.
If they're not at street corners, you should be looking elsewhere if you want to find actual terrorists. Creating your own to glorify your existence should be punished by society. Come on, they just admitted they're not very good at their actual assignment so they make something up to look good. if you look long and hard enough, you'll find someone gullible and disgruntled enough to try and do something illegal. That's a fact of life. They weren't put in office to find those gullible people, but to prevent the real bad guys from finding them. No matter hard you try, the real bad guys will always find one, so you're not actually preventing anything, other than tax money being put to proper use. Stop doing the terrorists job and start doing your own, find the real criminals and terrorists. Oh what? There are so few terrorists, you can't really find any? Well maybe you should put an end to the whole charade and start working on the economy and the environment for a little while.
Does your switch link at1001 Mbit as well? "Yeah, but these go to eleven."
What on earth are you blabbing about? What application was having trouble converting e-mail and how would that be OpenSuSEs fault? Also why did you try and install a debug version of KDE on a production machine? That's development material, not production.
Reinstalling from scratch is a Windows click monkey solution. With Linux, if you have problems, you should fix them on the machine, because re-installs will have you end up in exactly the same spot of trouble you were before.
The way you tend to try to solve your computer problems, you are just a horror to do tech support for, regardless of what OS you are using. All operating systems suffer trouble, most of them being the users themselves and you are one prime example of that. Sure, "computers should be user friendly", but the way you are using a computer, you'll end up with one schizophrenic box indeed.
There was clear evidence that Google violated laws. True, probably not USA laws, but they did the same in other countries where laws existed that made this illegal at the time.
Does this apply to all USA data keepers, so foreign customers that make use of these systems as well? This could (probably would) mean that most of the European businesses that use services from USA companies are now forced to cancel their business, due to European privacy laws forbidding them to do business with companies that will not uphold the European privacy laws. Could someone explain if I need to move large amounts of data and services out of the USA now please?
Unless the members of congress can point it at the bedroom of the hot girl that lives across the street.
I doubt Google will offer a bonus for "generic" Linux bugs, even if they effect android. This makes the suggestion that Linux would benefit rather implausible, since hackers that are in it for the money will either sit on the bug and keep it to themselves, or sell it to others that are willing to offer enough money.
His point is obviously that Monsanto expects us to hand over our lunch money for coaxing the bacteria into doing so.
1 billion Papiermark (Germany) wasn't worth a lot as well, in 1922. Maybe the figure has more to tell about the value of the US Dollar than it has about the value of the company in question?
Although your comments apply to me and probably a lot of slashdotters, the vast majority of sheeple on this planet buy stuff and services if they are targeted with ads for those at the right time. This is a numbers game, played on individuals, not an individuals game played in numbers.
For US residents that have trouble understanding metrics: it was traveling at 3 hours walking per second, considering you wouldn't stop once for fast food for those three hours. In those three hours, the meteor would have circled the earth four times at the speed of entry
People bread like rabbits once there is enough food and water to go around. They do anyway, but the infant mortality rate is high and migration to barren areas is very limited. Once there's food, water and safety, large groups of people migrate and breed. In just one or two generations, the country will be densely populated and there will once again be a shortage of resources.
What about the amount of energy used to generate the page at the web server? Big, dynamic web pages requiring lots of database hits, disk IO, cpu cycles cost more energy to generate. Large pages cost more energy to transmit over networks. Complicated javascript pages, flash and java content cost more energy to generate on the computer that has to render them to display them. The same applies for compressed media, like images, sound and movies. Animated media costs more than static media too to display. Has anybody looked at those factors?
How much trouble do you think power companies are having to keep voltage and frequency of the AC net within nominal parameters? They constantly juggle with the amount of fuel and sometimes the amount of power plants connected to the grid. The amount of electricity produced is exactly the amount that is being demanded, nothing more, nothing less. If that wasn't the case, you'd be paying for every kWh you could possibly consume, because they had to produce it for you, whether you use it or not.
It didn't sell 200 million copies because it was the best program available, but because companies got bundles, have upgrade contracts and are already using older versions. Since the older versions no longer get updates, or will not get them in the near future, companies decide to upgrade. They seldom re-evaluate the competution, but just buy "the lastest version" and get unpleasant surprises like a lot of users not being able to do their regular work with the ribbon.
If they would seriously investigate what office suite would be best to purchase, before accepting the bundle or upgrading to the latest version of what they already have, I'm fairly certain that about half, maybe more of those 200M would not have been sold. Yes, I'm saying half. Word 2010 may be an annoyance, but it's still one of the better document editors around for general office use by office staff.
What was first, the chicken, the egg or the dinosaur?
No it isn't you ignoramus, it's the capital of Paris!