I can type almost as fast as i can talk and I prefer using a mouse and keyboard than talking to a machine, not to mind the problem of other people listening in.
In 2000 I had a Nokia 3310 with voice dialing and probably every phone I had since has that feature but I never felt the urge to use it and I don't know anyone else who does.
Also any current speech recognition technology I ever saw has been honed over thousands of years to only recognise Californian expensive coffee drinking IT worker's accents.
Normal solar panel takes 10-15 years to pay for itself. If it only produces 20% of a normal panel it won't be worth it unless it costs about 20% of a normal panel
So instead of paying for fuel you end up paying about the same in 'wear' on your battery pack. You might think "but it's good for the carbon footprint, environment, reducing the peak oil problem, etc" but it isn't.
The money you spend on the battery pack goes to fund the fuel for the large diesel engines used to help get the raw materials out of the ground in Bolivia, shipping and so on. End of life Li-Ion batteries cannot be easily recycled into new Li-Ion batteries either. So really they'd be better off making a plane that runs off ethanol (but not corn ethanol, production of this stuff is woefully inefficient), ordinary petrol or not bothering with building the plane until a more sustainable form of battery or capacitor is on the market.
Which has almost no or very little increase in durability over standard Li-Ion. The main advantage of them is that they can be made into a nice proprietary shape
Heat does negatively effect Li-Ion batteries, Ideally they are stored at a few degrees C and half-charged. There also seems to be a huge variation in the quality of these batteries. I know there are plenty of Nokia 6310i's around still on the original battery but my laptop battery from 12/2009 is already down to 57%
There are many improved versions of the Li-Ion battery that last longer (as in more cycles) but they never seem to reach the market. Yeah feck it you can buy loose 18650 LiFePO4 cells and even lithium based supercapacitors but name one phone or laptop a normal person can easily buy with anything other than the bog standard 400-500 cycle-then-dead Li-Ion battery?
I expect that the reason for this is quite sinister - Li-Ion batteries are used to enforce planned obsolescense, which is why standard cells are often packed into an overpriced proprietary plastic casing before sale. Manufacturers of consumer electronics don't want batteries that are still good after thousands of cycles. Apple also deserves a mention for pioneering the idea of packing the battery into the hard to open case of the phone/laptop itself, forcing 99% of the people who own these products to buy a new one as soon as the battery dies.
If there is one thing the browser hasn't done is minimise bandwidth.
A SSH session uses about the same amount of bandwidth as it did in the 90's. Now you need a 3mbit pipe just to load an ordinary web page in a decent amount of time. If they just fucking killed off JavaShit the web would be fast once again, and its not just bandwidth thats being wasted; 10 years ago new releases of MS Office bloatware was driving the PC upgrade cycle, now its Web Apps and ordinary websites that have been unnecessarily 'appified'
But I'd still much prefer the Dodge Tomahawk over this. Neither are terribly practical or every day use vehicles so the amount of energy saved by having an electric version is negligible
I have been running my own email server for 5 years. I use a relatively simple one called XMail
Very rarely needs any sort of maintainence. You need a static IP + PTR record and possibly also a SRV record for your domain. Now I have made life easy for myself and don't have any webmail set up although I did have this before. StartSSL offer free certs you can use on your email server, you have to update them every year but its fairly easy.
I don't understand why people complain that running an email server is so bad because in my experience it takes the same or less work maintaining than my web server and XMPP server. I don't like google, I don't like their invasion of privacy and how they are trying to make everything Web 2.0 so they can push more ads on you. Alright if you are running a mail server for thousands of people who constantly need their accounts modified/created/deleted and manage tons of domains I can see it will be fairly time consuming but if you're only hosting for a few people its really easy
Because batteries have a limited shelf life. The power you'd use from this system is very expensive due to the wear you'd incur on the battery pack.
There is also a loss involved in charging the battery and the inverter is only 80-90% efficient at best.
Some people utterly cannot live without the ability to use the lights, TV, hair dryer for the few hours a year the power might go but for most it's not worth the added expense.
You don't need a fancy hybrid or electric car either, just plug a cheap square wave inverter into an ordinary car or old car battery and you can draw some power from it, enough to dry your hair anyway and still have enough left to start the car
They're a burning now! Serves them right for how they mothballed Maemo and instead threw all their efforts behind two shite operating systems; Symbian and WM. Used em both and I can say WM sucks considerably more than the dead horse that is symbian.
I'd love one of these in the back of my field connected to the grid. A cool 10MW or so is all I need.
These are only the size of a shipping container and are a self contained unit. They would be a great way to bypass the NIMBYism associated with nuclear power plants. They are also much safer. If these can be bought by people with a bit of cash in the attic and installed in the countryside unknown to the neighbours we can all enjoy cheap nucular energy while everyone is blisfully oblivious to the fact that the neighbours little 'storage' container is actually a nucular power plant
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I can type almost as fast as i can talk and I prefer using a mouse and keyboard than talking to a machine, not to mind the problem of other people listening in.
In 2000 I had a Nokia 3310 with voice dialing and probably every phone I had since has that feature but I never felt the urge to use it and I don't know anyone else who does.
Also any current speech recognition technology I ever saw has been honed over thousands of years to only recognise Californian expensive coffee drinking IT worker's accents.
Similar to Intel Insider? In 2007 there was talk of disallowing users access to the framebuffer, did any of this ever materialise?
This is what is keeping me away from buying core i5 cpus, even if the AMD ones might be a bit slower
Opposed-piston_engine for ignorant feckers like myself who have never seen or heard of this engine design before?
Normal solar panel takes 10-15 years to pay for itself. If it only produces 20% of a normal panel it won't be worth it unless it costs about 20% of a normal panel
So instead of paying for fuel you end up paying about the same in 'wear' on your battery pack. You might think "but it's good for the carbon footprint, environment, reducing the peak oil problem, etc" but it isn't.
The money you spend on the battery pack goes to fund the fuel for the large diesel engines used to help get the raw materials out of the ground in Bolivia, shipping and so on. End of life Li-Ion batteries cannot be easily recycled into new Li-Ion batteries either. So really they'd be better off making a plane that runs off ethanol (but not corn ethanol, production of this stuff is woefully inefficient), ordinary petrol or not bothering with building the plane until a more sustainable form of battery or capacitor is on the market.
That is the biggest amount of BS I have seen on this site so far.
When you burn the hydrogen it becomes water again.
Which has almost no or very little increase in durability over standard Li-Ion. The main advantage of them is that they can be made into a nice proprietary shape
Heat does negatively effect Li-Ion batteries, Ideally they are stored at a few degrees C and half-charged. There also seems to be a huge variation in the quality of these batteries. I know there are plenty of Nokia 6310i's around still on the original battery but my laptop battery from 12/2009 is already down to 57%
There are many improved versions of the Li-Ion battery that last longer (as in more cycles) but they never seem to reach the market. Yeah feck it you can buy loose 18650 LiFePO4 cells and even lithium based supercapacitors but name one phone or laptop a normal person can easily buy with anything other than the bog standard 400-500 cycle-then-dead Li-Ion battery?
I expect that the reason for this is quite sinister - Li-Ion batteries are used to enforce planned obsolescense, which is why standard cells are often packed into an overpriced proprietary plastic casing before sale. Manufacturers of consumer electronics don't want batteries that are still good after thousands of cycles. Apple also deserves a mention for pioneering the idea of packing the battery into the hard to open case of the phone/laptop itself, forcing 99% of the people who own these products to buy a new one as soon as the battery dies.
Indeed it is, about 200 servers run by mostly hobbyists and some universities
If there is one thing the browser hasn't done is minimise bandwidth.
A SSH session uses about the same amount of bandwidth as it did in the 90's. Now you need a 3mbit pipe just to load an ordinary web page in a decent amount of time. If they just fucking killed off JavaShit the web would be fast once again, and its not just bandwidth thats being wasted; 10 years ago new releases of MS Office bloatware was driving the PC upgrade cycle, now its Web Apps and ordinary websites that have been unnecessarily 'appified'
But I'd still much prefer the Dodge Tomahawk over this. Neither are terribly practical or every day use vehicles so the amount of energy saved by having an electric version is negligible
I had a CPU in my last computer called SLAPP
I have been running my own email server for 5 years. I use a relatively simple one called XMail
Very rarely needs any sort of maintainence. You need a static IP + PTR record and possibly also a SRV record for your domain. Now I have made life easy for myself and don't have any webmail set up although I did have this before. StartSSL offer free certs you can use on your email server, you have to update them every year but its fairly easy.
I don't understand why people complain that running an email server is so bad because in my experience it takes the same or less work maintaining than my web server and XMPP server. I don't like google, I don't like their invasion of privacy and how they are trying to make everything Web 2.0 so they can push more ads on you. Alright if you are running a mail server for thousands of people who constantly need their accounts modified/created/deleted and manage tons of domains I can see it will be fairly time consuming but if you're only hosting for a few people its really easy
Because batteries have a limited shelf life. The power you'd use from this system is very expensive due to the wear you'd incur on the battery pack. There is also a loss involved in charging the battery and the inverter is only 80-90% efficient at best. Some people utterly cannot live without the ability to use the lights, TV, hair dryer for the few hours a year the power might go but for most it's not worth the added expense. You don't need a fancy hybrid or electric car either, just plug a cheap square wave inverter into an ordinary car or old car battery and you can draw some power from it, enough to dry your hair anyway and still have enough left to start the car
4.19 scam
They're a burning now! Serves them right for how they mothballed Maemo and instead threw all their efforts behind two shite operating systems; Symbian and WM. Used em both and I can say WM sucks considerably more than the dead horse that is symbian.
Good to know there are some slashdotters out there who drive manual transmission cars
There are unfortunately only two options in US politics: The Frying pan and the shiny new futuristic looking Frying pan with a non-stick coating
Don't forget boat. A hugely underrated way of traveling
Is it easily removed and replaced with ya know, a real OS? something that isn't all Cloudy 2.0 JavaScript based?
You mean Film right?
An i 4 an i... as they say
I'd love one of these in the back of my field connected to the grid. A cool 10MW or so is all I need.
These are only the size of a shipping container and are a self contained unit. They would be a great way to bypass the NIMBYism associated with nuclear power plants. They are also much safer. If these can be bought by people with a bit of cash in the attic and installed in the countryside unknown to the neighbours we can all enjoy cheap nucular energy while everyone is blisfully oblivious to the fact that the neighbours little 'storage' container is actually a nucular power plant
At the end of the day, you'd just never know. Boy