The electric companies, excited with new possibilities, have decided to experiment further.
"The powerline can be used with tiny solar cells on the wires to generate electricity, as they are being laid. We had been wasting the solar energy all along, and this will contribute to the net electricity generation" the spokesman said.
"We are looking into possibility of channeling heat from hotter areas of North America to colder areas like Canada or North USA, through power lines. Afterall they are metal wire and good conductors of heat. This will reduce the electricity consumpsion, and we will have surplus power. Also, we have pilot project ready to use power lines as ropeways", He added, "which will not only reduce traffic problems but make the world accident free."
Kudos to Manmohan Singh and his team, who have brought liberation and economic reforms. India is on the road of becoming superpower. Ellora and Taj Mahal are great piece of art.
Diamond-based devices could be helping IT managers detect network snooping and prevent information theft The technology, based on quantum cryptography, uses a diamond to produce a single photon of light to stop information being intercepted
Will it not increase DOS attacks, if the attacker's aim is not the information theft?
Reminds me of Kamalhaasan (The one whose face is like lotus), who is one of the most talented actor from India, was ill treated and refused entry because his name resembles Hasan. The authorities thought he was muslim.
You have made concrete valid points... specially about distributions. I can not agree more.
Apart from all the problems you have listed, IMHO, there is an interesting possibility that, Java might become useless if Sun Microsystem does not make it FOSS.
Java provides a unique advantage of "Write once run everywhere". JVM provides a layer above real OS, so that bytecodes see the VM on which they are running.
Similar (or better) advantage is available on Linux. For example, gnome need not be rewritten to make it run on different machines. The programs written once can run on any machine running Linux. Only difference is, you have a real OS, instead of VM.
Recently, I installed Linux on Intel Mac Mini, and found how easily I could recompile whatever I needed.
..compared to what I saw in a Hindi movie, called "Amar Akbar Anthony".
A scene of blood transfusion is going on. Mother needs blood. The blood from her 3 sons is getting in a bottle 6 feet above ground defying all rules of gravity. The blood is mixed online and then comes down through 4th tube for their mother.
It is known and Microsoft will not give up with their evil marketing tactics.
This move, however, will not hurt the community as much as the 'kylix'. Borland has dropped support/development of this wonderful product for Linux due to the pressure from Microsoft.
Needless to say, this step is a heavy blow for all companies and individuals which have invested time and money in Kylix-based projects on Linux.
It has been claimed that this was the result of a non-public agreement with Microsoft, where Borland would abandon all products for Linux in exchange for receiving.NET based technology from Microsoft. This would indeed be a clever move by Microsoft because it (1) binds Borland to Windows and (2) disrupts the possibility of a Visual-Basic-like programming-tool being available on Linux.
People like me hate M$ for what they have done to Kylix. Hope google will be able to kick their ass.
LMAO, yeah.. last time I checked, the bug was in this code of MS Management cycle..:P
while (generating_crappy_systems())
{
char* company = pick_yet_another_company();
int percentrisk = assess_risk_from(company);
int percentgrowthrate = assess_growth_of(company);
if (percentrisk > 10 || percentgrowthrate > 10) launch_FUD_against(company);
continue;// with generating_crappy_systems();
}
LMAO, after reading your post as it reminded me of an old joke
May be offtopic, lemme share it with u:)
In a biology class, the prof was discussing the high glucose levels found in semen.
A young female (freshman) raised her hand and asked "If I understand, you're saying there is a lot of glucose, as in sugar, in male semen?"
"That's correct", responded the prof, going on to add statistical info.
Raising her hand again, the girl asked, "Then why doesn't it taste sweet?"
After a stunned silence, the whole class burst out laughing, the poor girls face turned bright red, and as she realized exactly what she had inadvertently said (or rather implied), she picked up her books without a word and walked out of class...and never returned.
However, as she was going out the door, the Profs reply was classic... Totally straight-faced he answered her question, he stated "It doesn't taste sweet, because the taste-buds for sweetness are on the tip of your tongue".
Fuel cells offer lot of advantages (like least pollution, less noise and lot more) and few disadvantages (like efficiency, safety concerns etc), which other posters have pointed out.
The reason why fuel cell technology is most important is, that is only way we will be able to use our huge infrastructure of roads, automobile industry etc after we run out of fossil fuel. (correct me please, if I am wrong). We will have means to generate electricity, which can reach train through electrified tracks.
Probably, Japanese are trying to build tomorrow's small trains that will run on fuel cells. (Fuel cell based automobiles are already designed and demonstrated).
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"The powerline can be used with tiny solar cells on the wires to generate electricity, as they are being laid. We had been wasting the solar energy all along, and this will contribute to the net electricity generation" the spokesman said.
"We are looking into possibility of channeling heat from hotter areas of North America to colder areas like Canada or North USA, through power lines. Afterall they are metal wire and good conductors of heat. This will reduce the electricity consumpsion, and we will have surplus power. Also, we have pilot project ready to use power lines as ropeways", He added, "which will not only reduce traffic problems but make the world accident free."
Yeah. Overflow.
Does it work? Ok, let me try...
Kudos to Manmohan Singh and his team, who have brought liberation and economic reforms. India is on the road of becoming superpower. Ellora and Taj Mahal are great piece of art.
Ok..I am waiting.. +5?
Will it not increase DOS attacks, if the attacker's aim is not the information theft?
Reminds me of Kamalhaasan (The one whose face is like lotus), who is one of the most talented actor from India, was ill treated and refused entry because his name resembles Hasan. The authorities thought he was muslim.
Open "foo.in" as #1
Apart from all the problems you have listed, IMHO, there is an interesting possibility that, Java might become useless if Sun Microsystem does not make it FOSS.
Java provides a unique advantage of "Write once run everywhere". JVM provides a layer above real OS, so that bytecodes see the VM on which they are running.
Similar (or better) advantage is available on Linux. For example, gnome need not be rewritten to make it run on different machines. The programs written once can run on any machine running Linux. Only difference is, you have a real OS, instead of VM.
Recently, I installed Linux on Intel Mac Mini, and found how easily I could recompile whatever I needed.
A scene of blood transfusion is going on. Mother needs blood. The blood from her 3 sons is getting in a bottle 6 feet above ground defying all rules of gravity. The blood is mixed online and then comes down through 4th tube for their mother.
There are many, but this one was classic.
This move, however, will not hurt the community as much as the 'kylix'. Borland has dropped support/development of this wonderful product for Linux due to the pressure from Microsoft.
Read This
From TFA:
Needless to say, this step is a heavy blow for all companies and individuals which have invested time and money in Kylix-based projects on Linux.It has been claimed that this was the result of a non-public agreement with Microsoft, where Borland would abandon all products for Linux in exchange for receiving .NET based technology from Microsoft. This would indeed be a clever move by Microsoft because it (1) binds Borland to Windows and (2) disrupts the possibility of a Visual-Basic-like programming-tool being available on Linux.
People like me hate M$ for what they have done to Kylix. Hope google will be able to kick their ass.
Keep going google, we are with you always.
while (generating_crappy_systems())
char* company = pick_yet_another_company();{
int percentrisk = assess_risk_from(company);
int percentgrowthrate = assess_growth_of(company);
if (percentrisk > 10 || percentgrowthrate > 10) launch_FUD_against(company);
continue;
}
Our records indicate that you had been modded as Troll continuously for last 6 months on slashdot. We understand how depressing this can be.
We can offer you Deep Brain Stmulation to fix the depression and additional free package of Dumb Brain Simulation, to get +5Funny.
Warm regards
A few months back we went and redesigned Slashdot with fancy new CSS templates. If u mean that April 1 pink theme... oh no...not again...
Microsoft has decided to offer free phone support for Calculator and Solitair.
Hope it is misconception. Why would anybody discard a product just because it is from some other country unless there are quality issues.
my $0.02.
PS: No I haven't RTFA. The site is slashdotted.
Otherwise, I had been posting this from 2000 feet under water.
Yeah. And we will have change all light bulb jokes now. Damm.
May be offtopic, lemme share it with u:)
In a biology class, the prof was discussing the high glucose levels found in semen.
A young female (freshman) raised her hand and asked "If I understand, you're saying there is a lot of glucose, as in sugar, in male semen?"
"That's correct", responded the prof, going on to add statistical info.
Raising her hand again, the girl asked, "Then why doesn't it taste sweet?"
After a stunned silence, the whole class burst out laughing, the poor girls face turned bright red, and as she realized exactly what she had inadvertently said (or rather implied), she picked up her books without a word and walked out of class...and never returned.
However, as she was going out the door, the Profs reply was classic... Totally straight-faced he answered her question, he stated "It doesn't taste sweet, because the taste-buds for sweetness are on the tip of your tongue".
The reason why fuel cell technology is most important is, that is only way we will be able to use our huge infrastructure of roads, automobile industry etc after we run out of fossil fuel. (correct me please, if I am wrong). We will have means to generate electricity, which can reach train through electrified tracks.
Probably, Japanese are trying to build tomorrow's small trains that will run on fuel cells. (Fuel cell based automobiles are already designed and demonstrated).
my $0.02
I can't wait to see his face when google toolbar will start throwing pages at him.
There is. But the chips that were not involved in showing pr0n to the users only make it.
He has not written the article.
Way to go, and make sure spammers do not abuse the freedom!!
My dad always said that I think out of my brains.
Now I know what he means.
Most people are less intelligent than bolts and latches:)
*ducks*