If we want to save power we need to mandate a display in the living room which shows how much power is being used in the house and current electricity price (assuming it's cheaper at night...)
If people could *see* what's going on they'd be a lot more careful about turning lights/PCs off, etc.
I think the real truth is that he only met Warren Buffet recently.
Warren Buffet is as rich as Bill Gates but is a genuinely nice (and humble) guy. He lives in a normal house and drives a normal car (until it wears out!)
OK, he owns a Gulfstream jet, but let's not hold that against him, he's the biggest philanthropist in history and he's had a big influence on BIll Gates over the last decade.
If you watch the video and read between the lines all those people are being set up to be afraid of the test and the big scary machine. There's pretty girls comforting them and telling them it will be ok, they do a 'practice run' before the real thing, etc.
The flurry of popup windows you get when an AV expires, along with all the dire warnings from Windows Security Center, won't leave you in any doubt about the status of your antivirus. No email required.
The bigger the vendor, the more "Insert credit card now!" message you'll get.
I'm thinking the home environment of the poor kids might not be the best place to do homework anyway. Maybe staying at school an extra hour would be better for them.
(Assuming there *are* any 'poor kids' in this school...any school which has rows of stylish, slim, white laptops as their image probably doesn't have too many poor kids)
Hard drives can take several hundred Gs by design. If you're passing that on every bridge you go over then you could try some shag-pile carpet in the back of the 1920s delivery truck you're using.
What the hell... splash out on one of those old 1970s station wagons with the floaty suspension. An organization your size should be able to pay for it with the savings from the spinal-column-insurance they're paying for the truck drivers.
Last time I checked the specs most hard drives can take a couple of hundred Gs when operating and maybe 1000G when parked (1000G means the metal case would probably break before you lose data).
Many laptop drives even have built-in accelerometers and park the heads automatically when they sense a sudden movement
You missed an important circle on your Venn diagram.
The subset of "Firefox Geeks" with "Windows Live Toolbar" is probably quite small and I can't imagine any of them will mind too much (I mean, they actually installed Windows Live toolbar so how much of a "Firefox Geek" can they be...?)
Still, this is Slashdot so I'll let everybody get back to their Microsoft bashing.
Hollywood isn't interested in making "good movies", they're only interested in "making money".
It's a simple formula: profit = earnings-costs
To make money the costs have to be less than earnings.
They have a pretty good idea what the earnings will be because they know their target audience will watch it based on the name/poster not the reviews, ie. profit = X million acne-ridden geeks multiplied by ticket price.
All they need to do to pay for their next round of coke+hookers is to make sure the costs are less than that. "Quality" isn't anywhere in the equation.
FTA: "Bacteria are breaking down the oil's hydrocarbons in a massive, microorganism feeding frenzy that has sent oxygen levels plunging close to what is considered "dead zone" conditions,"
So...shouldn't we be trying to oxygenate the water?
Extra oxygen means the oil gets eaten *and* the fish can survive... it's win-win.
(Yes I know the sea is quite big but there must be something they can dump into the patches of oil...H2O2?)
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If we want to save power we need to mandate a display in the living room which shows how much power is being used in the house and current electricity price (assuming it's cheaper at night...)
If people could *see* what's going on they'd be a lot more careful about turning lights/PCs off, etc.
In our local zoo the chimps have a TV with Teletubbies on it....seriously.
Can't they plug it with old AOL diskettes? There's billions of them in storage.
(Hopefully 'voted out of office'...)
It's a radical new technology for blocking light. Google for it.
Even looking at the dot this thing projects on a wall could damage your eyes. It might sound cool but I do NOT want one of these in my house. Ever.
I think the real truth is that he only met Warren Buffet recently.
Warren Buffet is as rich as Bill Gates but is a genuinely nice (and humble) guy. He lives in a normal house and drives a normal car (until it wears out!)
OK, he owns a Gulfstream jet, but let's not hold that against him, he's the biggest philanthropist in history and he's had a big influence on BIll Gates over the last decade.
If you watch the video and read between the lines all those people are being set up to be afraid of the test and the big scary machine. There's pretty girls comforting them and telling them it will be ok, they do a 'practice run' before the real thing, etc.
This is what makes it work.
No ... it's much easier to stop Avast.
The person who designed Windows' "sounds" dialog needs to be taken out back and shot.
The flurry of popup windows you get when an AV expires, along with all the dire warnings from Windows Security Center, won't leave you in any doubt about the status of your antivirus. No email required.
The bigger the vendor, the more "Insert credit card now!" message you'll get.
I just checked and there's about as many plugins labelled 'Google" as there are "Microsoft'. I don't recall installing any of them.
But still...this is a a Microsoft bashing board, right?
I'm thinking the home environment of the poor kids might not be the best place to do homework anyway. Maybe staying at school an extra hour would be better for them.
(Assuming there *are* any 'poor kids' in this school...any school which has rows of stylish, slim, white laptops as their image probably doesn't have too many poor kids)
Nope, they're expensive.
Lexus cars may also be "competitively priced" and they're not be the most expensive cars available, most people see Ford/GM as better value.
I dunno, it was better than yours.
Hard drives can take several hundred Gs by design. If you're passing that on every bridge you go over then you could try some shag-pile carpet in the back of the 1920s delivery truck you're using.
What the hell... splash out on one of those old 1970s station wagons with the floaty suspension. An organization your size should be able to pay for it with the savings from the spinal-column-insurance they're paying for the truck drivers.
Tapes are cheap, sure, what about the drives?
Personally I don't trust anything that still needs regular use of a head-cleaning cassette (remember those...?)
Last time I checked the specs most hard drives can take a couple of hundred Gs when operating and maybe 1000G when parked (1000G means the metal case would probably break before you lose data).
Many laptop drives even have built-in accelerometers and park the heads automatically when they sense a sudden movement
I'm not sure about the wisdom of putting expensive "smarts" into a garment that gets changed/washed a lot. Wouldn't it be better as a belt?
Or maybe the military don't change them as often.
OTOH this is Slashdot, I'm seeing mystified faces when I say "changed/washed" in the same sentence as "underwear".
You missed an important circle on your Venn diagram.
The subset of "Firefox Geeks" with "Windows Live Toolbar" is probably quite small and I can't imagine any of them will mind too much (I mean, they actually installed Windows Live toolbar so how much of a "Firefox Geek" can they be...?)
Still, this is Slashdot so I'll let everybody get back to their Microsoft bashing.
...and experience shows they're right!
Hollywood isn't interested in making "good movies", they're only interested in "making money".
It's a simple formula: profit = earnings-costs
To make money the costs have to be less than earnings.
They have a pretty good idea what the earnings will be because they know their target audience will watch it based on the name/poster not the reviews, ie. profit = X million acne-ridden geeks multiplied by ticket price.
All they need to do to pay for their next round of coke+hookers is to make sure the costs are less than that. "Quality" isn't anywhere in the equation.
FTA: "Bacteria are breaking down the oil's hydrocarbons in a massive, microorganism feeding frenzy that has sent oxygen levels plunging close to what is considered "dead zone" conditions,"
So...shouldn't we be trying to oxygenate the water?
Extra oxygen means the oil gets eaten *and* the fish can survive ... it's win-win.
(Yes I know the sea is quite big but there must be something they can dump into the patches of oil...H2O2?)
If a car travels 100km at 5L/100k it uses 5 liters
If a car travels 100km at 10L/100k it uses 10 liters - 100% more.
If a car travels 100km at 15L/100k it uses 15 liters.
If a car travels 100km at 20L/100k it uses 20 liters - 33.3% more.
Looking at the difference in numbers is wrong, you need to look at the ratio.
IOW: Article fail.
The opposite of Idiocracy? We definitely need more products like this!
Sterilize the stupid, kill off the uneducated, yay!
...also easy to reuse and won't end up in the Pacific garbage patch.