people are frequently disturbed to find all those photos they put on CDs and DVDs only have a probably lifespan of 5-10 years, due to flaking of the discs.
If you want archival photos, you need to print on archival (acid-free) photo paper using long-living stabilized materials.
If you want archival photo storage, the only thing that really works is tape. That lasts about 100 years (mind you, you won't be able to read it in about 10 years, unless you keep spares of the devices around).
Currently, I only have one WinXP laptop at home and a WinXP PC at work - everything else is Linux (plus my son has a Mac Mini, man I wish my boot and shutdown time was even one-tenth as fast as his...)
Maybe Ubuntu is what I'll use for my next laptop PC.
I already use OpenOffice on the WinXP at home, so it's not like I'll miss anything.
But, and I know this is a silly reason, I like to play The Sims and am looking forward to Spore - if they work on my Wii, or at least on my son's OS X Mac Mini, I guess I can finally ditch Microsoft (been here since MS DOS 1.0, including DOS and Windows versions (skipped WinME)).
As Bill would say in his initial letter to software developers, we must actively defend the intellectual property rights of the originators - and since Vista is French, I presume he'll back this 100 percent.
Saw a few adverts for it last night, and the whole thinking about Sushi, pop up map, click on one, it dials it, looked useful.
But watch Pirates of the Carribean on it? Um, are you sure those images are the real ones? No bumps in transmission, no pauses, no sound impact when you move from cell tower to cell tower... and wouldn't it be kind of hard to see?
And what about scratching? I mean, I remember what happened with the iPod...
But, as someone who got rid of his cell phones a while back, this is the first one that has made me interested in even owning one again.
A British researcher has a cure for 50 percent of all cancers based on activating apotosis in cancer cells (99.9 percent) but not normal cells (1 percent) with a mild increase in cell heat after a trigger is sent, for example.
the ones that monitored global warming emissions worldwide run by the US were ordered to stop monitoring said emissions by direct order of the White House.
atom by atom, and send information on what component parts were and where they were located.
Next we can put it back together.
You'll still be dead, no longer a functioning biological biochemical organism which is in constant motion and has altering states of being at the nanosecond level, and you'll still have died in agony while we ripped your body apart.
While nice that you provided a link, it's to a capsule, not the paper itself, although I could get that thru other resources here.
And I note that the title is misspelled and does not agree with the text.
Speeelink errorz doez not giv mee confidents.
There have been initial papers on, oh, I don't know, cold fusion, and such things which later research has totally disagreed.
If things are as you say, which I am understandably highly skeptical of, than time will change the perception of myself and others more than any arguing you are doing in the context of slashdot.
My figures were not a comparison of peak sunlight at perpendicular compared to cloudy at an angle two hours later.
They were a comparison of total cell energy output on an overcast day (typical Seattle type, no snow) with a non-overcast day.
Total power output.
Now, in the summer, when solar radiation is usually at a better angle and the days are longer, we tend NOT to have cloud cover.
You can't compare a different type of day (e.g. July 4th) with a different day (e.g. January 1st), but you could compare a month chart and measure the day as overcast or not. So comparing Jan. 13th to Jan. 14th might work.
But we have overcast days mostly when solar radiation would be less anyways (e.g. the non-summer months) here in Seattle.
Sadly, some people continue the MYTH that solar cells don't work during cloudy days - unless they have snowfall on them (which is different), a cloudy day means they still get somewhere between 70 and 90 percent of the normal solar radiation.
willingly give up all rights of privacy so they can be good citizen comrades in the willing partnership of the Corporate State and the citizen comrades!
All power to the Rights Fuhrer Bill Gates and Citizen Comrade Chiefs who free us from worry about nasty anonymity!
I'm sorry, but you are decidedly incorrect. The amount of sunlight that can be converted on a fully overcast day in the Seattle-Tacoma region is normally in a range of 70 to 80 percent for photovoltaic solar cells in terms of solar energy.
You might want to investigate it yourself - just pop over to Seattle City Light on the City of Seattle website and read up on it.
Now, the solar cells we use to POWER some of our public buildings, bus shelters, and schools here are not as efficient as the 40 percent that this Letter in Applied Physics speaks of, but they are about half as efficient.
Cloud cover as you understand it, depends on visible light spectra. The solar cells absorb far wider bandwidths, at least the ones in common use here.
If we were a snowbound or ice-storm city like many others - which we are not - it is possible that your statement would be less inaccurate, as the ice crystals and heavier cloud formations might refract more of the effective solar energy, but we tend to only have a mild drizzle due to the consistency of our cloud cover.
Or haven't you noticed?
Don't believe me? Go look at the bus stops with LED readouts along N 45th, some of the public schools (including two my son went two and the high school he's in now), and even Seattle Center's public meeting rooms.
See - solar cells. Perfectly happy solar cells.
Some people use solar water heaters on their rooftops here, and if you look around Phinney Ridge you'd see a few of them. There's a reason they're frequently referred to in the Seattle Times supplements on Green Houses - people USE them. Because they make sense here.
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people are frequently disturbed to find all those photos they put on CDs and DVDs only have a probably lifespan of 5-10 years, due to flaking of the discs.
If you want archival photos, you need to print on archival (acid-free) photo paper using long-living stabilized materials.
If you want archival photo storage, the only thing that really works is tape. That lasts about 100 years (mind you, you won't be able to read it in about 10 years, unless you keep spares of the devices around).
And, to be honest, more support is needed than is currently provided.
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Currently, I only have one WinXP laptop at home and a WinXP PC at work - everything else is Linux (plus my son has a Mac Mini, man I wish my boot and shutdown time was even one-tenth as fast as his ...)
Maybe Ubuntu is what I'll use for my next laptop PC.
I already use OpenOffice on the WinXP at home, so it's not like I'll miss anything.
But, and I know this is a silly reason, I like to play The Sims and am looking forward to Spore - if they work on my Wii, or at least on my son's OS X Mac Mini, I guess I can finally ditch Microsoft (been here since MS DOS 1.0, including DOS and Windows versions (skipped WinME)).
trademarks are just as much intellectual property as patents are.
Even if software patents are illegal in France, trademarks exist.
After all, doesn't he support the Rule of Law?
unless you operate on the web, as most TV stations do now.
Clear infringement.
from Vista sales.
As Bill would say in his initial letter to software developers, we must actively defend the intellectual property rights of the originators - and since Vista is French, I presume he'll back this 100 percent.
What does BSOD mean
Blue Screen of Death.
Although, I'm not sure what it looks like on this device.
Ah, storing it on the hard disk ... now that might work ...
Saw a few adverts for it last night, and the whole thinking about Sushi, pop up map, click on one, it dials it, looked useful.
... and wouldn't it be kind of hard to see?
...
But watch Pirates of the Carribean on it? Um, are you sure those images are the real ones? No bumps in transmission, no pauses, no sound impact when you move from cell tower to cell tower
And what about scratching? I mean, I remember what happened with the iPod
But, as someone who got rid of his cell phones a while back, this is the first one that has made me interested in even owning one again.
Will the future of gene splicers be rogue hackers writing real viral genetic code to do such things as:
A. using the apotosis chain terminator to kill off a competitors crop by setting the terminator trigger off early;
B. hacking a hybrid plant version to turn off the terminator and claim it under hybrid rules as "normal biological activity";
C. making your breakfast cereal pop when you use the wrong milk
All these things are possible.
before the physical product goes out!
...
And that is a Feature, not a bug
and terminator genes get passed on.
A British researcher has a cure for 50 percent of all cancers based on activating apotosis in cancer cells (99.9 percent) but not normal cells (1 percent) with a mild increase in cell heat after a trigger is sent, for example.
Everyone thought the peons would buy Vista in record numbers, and this would require massive outlays for new graphics cards for everyone.
Never happened.
the ones that monitored global warming emissions worldwide run by the US were ordered to stop monitoring said emissions by direct order of the White House.
Why?
Because the truth is not on their side.
atom by atom, and send information on what component parts were and where they were located.
Next we can put it back together.
You'll still be dead, no longer a functioning biological biochemical organism which is in constant motion and has altering states of being at the nanosecond level, and you'll still have died in agony while we ripped your body apart.
But now we can bury you on the other end!
While nice that you provided a link, it's to a capsule, not the paper itself, although I could get that thru other resources here.
And I note that the title is misspelled and does not agree with the text.
Speeelink errorz doez not giv mee confidents.
There have been initial papers on, oh, I don't know, cold fusion, and such things which later research has totally disagreed.
If things are as you say, which I am understandably highly skeptical of, than time will change the perception of myself and others more than any arguing you are doing in the context of slashdot.
I can see the Butlerian Jihad using this "safe storage nuclear waste" for dirty bombs in 100 years, can't you?
100 years is not 10,000 years.
My figures were not a comparison of peak sunlight at perpendicular compared to cloudy at an angle two hours later.
They were a comparison of total cell energy output on an overcast day (typical Seattle type, no snow) with a non-overcast day.
Total power output.
Now, in the summer, when solar radiation is usually at a better angle and the days are longer, we tend NOT to have cloud cover.
You can't compare a different type of day (e.g. July 4th) with a different day (e.g. January 1st), but you could compare a month chart and measure the day as overcast or not. So comparing Jan. 13th to Jan. 14th might work.
But we have overcast days mostly when solar radiation would be less anyways (e.g. the non-summer months) here in Seattle.
Sadly, some people continue the MYTH that solar cells don't work during cloudy days - unless they have snowfall on them (which is different), a cloudy day means they still get somewhere between 70 and 90 percent of the normal solar radiation.
Read my sentence - I said in online peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Sorry, nothing less will do.
willingly give up all rights of privacy so they can be good citizen comrades in the willing partnership of the Corporate State and the citizen comrades!
All power to the Rights Fuhrer Bill Gates and Citizen Comrade Chiefs who free us from worry about nasty anonymity!
I'll believe your claims of actual fission reactor output when I see them actually measured.
I have yet to see any scientific papers that agree with your statement in any of the online Energy journals.
We could always recycle them, or use them in our food supply, like melamine.
I'm sorry, but you are decidedly incorrect. The amount of sunlight that can be converted on a fully overcast day in the Seattle-Tacoma region is normally in a range of 70 to 80 percent for photovoltaic solar cells in terms of solar energy.
You might want to investigate it yourself - just pop over to Seattle City Light on the City of Seattle website and read up on it.
Now, the solar cells we use to POWER some of our public buildings, bus shelters, and schools here are not as efficient as the 40 percent that this Letter in Applied Physics speaks of, but they are about half as efficient.
Cloud cover as you understand it, depends on visible light spectra. The solar cells absorb far wider bandwidths, at least the ones in common use here.
If we were a snowbound or ice-storm city like many others - which we are not - it is possible that your statement would be less inaccurate, as the ice crystals and heavier cloud formations might refract more of the effective solar energy, but we tend to only have a mild drizzle due to the consistency of our cloud cover.
Or haven't you noticed?
Don't believe me? Go look at the bus stops with LED readouts along N 45th, some of the public schools (including two my son went two and the high school he's in now), and even Seattle Center's public meeting rooms.
See - solar cells. Perfectly happy solar cells.
Some people use solar water heaters on their rooftops here, and if you look around Phinney Ridge you'd see a few of them. There's a reason they're frequently referred to in the Seattle Times supplements on Green Houses - people USE them. Because they make sense here.
Here endeth the lesson.