Build a basic DC motor - copper windings, permanent magnets, bend up tin for brushes. Then after you've messed with the tech for a little while build a brushless DC motor. Build a little dynamometer and compare mechanical power out to electrical power in.
A calculus book and a physics book is a lot of weight. Add one or more engineering texts and your backpack is straining at the seams. An e-Reader weighs about 3/4 of a pound (1/3 Kg) and could easily store all your college texts for your career. It seems that adding some features to the interface and making them a little faster is within our technical grasp.
A group of colleges could get together and write free/low cost e-books on subjects like Calculus, Physics, English Comp, etc. This would reduce college costs by a few hundred dollars (20 cases of cheap beer) per semester.
Microsoft IT has been for years. They need a tech on location to go recover from BSOD and troubleshoot SAN issues. Otherwise they are run from the main campus in Redmond or increasingly from Hyderabad.
... Only if the button is clearly labeled "Do Not Press"
Most parents know that being computer literate is an important part of their childrens' education. They probably bought the computer in the first place for their kids to use so they would learn more about computers than their forebears.
Actually the ribbon sucks and most people still loath it to this day even after using it for the last couple of years. My opinion is based on curses muttered by Microsoft employees who wonder why, dear God, Oh why did they have to change the formerly useful user interface. While I'm willing to believe there is an office that drank the Kool-aid I've worked in several that haven't.
Since the ribbon interface to M$ Office 2007 sucks, and most people hate it, I would think that offering a clean ribbon free office implementation would be appealing to most office users. OpenOffice would be a natural step for most people to take so they can have their old comfortable interface back. If there is an option to turn the ribbon on I have no problem with that.
Women aged 20-29 were nearly 29 pounds heavier on average in 2002 compared to 1960.
Women aged 40-49 were about 25.5 pounds heavier on average in 2002 compared to 1960.
83.4% of this was in the breasts however - note that the specific gravity of Silicon is ~ 2.3
By the way the Microsoft solution for this is SCOM 2007. The next version will have support for network devices. Doesn't scale very well.
This reminds me - SMARTS is an excellent product.
Traffic Shaping.
If you have access to the router set up some traffic shaping so that after a few hours things just get laggier and laggier. He wont get the joy he needs out of his fix. Playing more will only worsen the problem. Eventually he will turn to something else. Your friend has an addictive side to his personality - he will probably at least try another MMO before giving up.
Portland has a pretty good train system (South of the Columbia river). It's very useful for a many things. Part of this is that Portland started zoning for light rail in the 1970's so that the city is sort of laid out so light rail can get you to work, home, or entertainment. Other western cities (e.g. Seattle) just put in a light rail and then hope that the right things get built near it.
As for cost per mile - you have to account for life of the car. Lets say a reasonable commuter car costs ~$17,000 and will have 170,000 serviceable miles in it. When you buy a car your buying miles for ~ 10 cents per mile. Gas across the street is $2.35/Gal (which is low in a few years we will be back to $4.00) so that's ~10 per mile (while commuting). Add in a few cents for Tires and brakes (consumptive maintenance as opposed to preventative) and you come up with ~22 cents per mile. I come up with $2200 to 40 miles to work and back for 250 days per year. Parking fees can be highly variable. I park for free at work - but I don't work downtown. Some companies will subsidize bus passes. I guess if I was riding the bus every day I would save about $2000 per year but I would spend an hour more per day commuting. I find its not always easy to read on the bus because of space issues.
You seem to be assuming these people are in Redmond. If they are in Hyderabad they probably are laughing. It is remarkable difficult to be too incompetent if you are a MS contractor in Hyderabad.
Bioalgea doesn't need fresh water - salt water will work just fine. Water that's been been poluted by agricultural run-off is also good.
I'm not saying that Wind, Geothermal, etc. aren't valuable contrubutors - just that the perceived problems of biodeisel are not only solvable but relatively tractable.
Perl is Unitarianism. It borrows from (and tolerates) all the other religions. It's worshipers find it very open and freindly while followers of the all the religions suspect it because its such a chaotic mix.
Hillary lost because she completely underestmated Obama. She thought her connections with the Democratic Machine in the primaries would be unbeatable. Obama's ability to form a grass roots organization that delivered his supporters in huge numbers to caucuses and registered new voters in primaries was unprecidented.
The only thing like it was McGovern's 1972 campaign - and in that one the Machine was split.
Make no mistake Hillary Clinton would beat John McCain by about the same margin
$crying_on_election night =~ s/black people/white lesbians/gi;
Slashdot Mirror
And all this time we blamed Microsoft ...
Always look on the bright side of life ...
Build a basic DC motor - copper windings, permanent magnets, bend up tin for brushes. Then after you've messed with the tech for a little while build a brushless DC motor. Build a little dynamometer and compare mechanical power out to electrical power in.
A calculus book and a physics book is a lot of weight. Add one or more engineering texts and your backpack is straining at the seams. An e-Reader weighs about 3/4 of a pound (1/3 Kg) and could easily store all your college texts for your career. It seems that adding some features to the interface and making them a little faster is within our technical grasp. A group of colleges could get together and write free/low cost e-books on subjects like Calculus, Physics, English Comp, etc. This would reduce college costs by a few hundred dollars (20 cases of cheap beer) per semester.
Microsoft IT has been for years. They need a tech on location to go recover from BSOD and troubleshoot SAN issues. Otherwise they are run from the main campus in Redmond or increasingly from Hyderabad.
Clippy is only gratuitous evil. Since Clippy predates .NET he can't be true evil.
Most parents know that being computer literate is an important part of their childrens' education. They probably bought the computer in the first place for their kids to use so they would learn more about computers than their forebears.
Actually the ribbon sucks and most people still loath it to this day even after using it for the last couple of years. My opinion is based on curses muttered by Microsoft employees who wonder why, dear God, Oh why did they have to change the formerly useful user interface. While I'm willing to believe there is an office that drank the Kool-aid I've worked in several that haven't.
Since the ribbon interface to M$ Office 2007 sucks, and most people hate it, I would think that offering a clean ribbon free office implementation would be appealing to most office users. OpenOffice would be a natural step for most people to take so they can have their old comfortable interface back. If there is an option to turn the ribbon on I have no problem with that.
Perhaps if the ladies had a Beowulf cluster of the latest Itaniums installed on their chests slashdotters would pay more attention to them ...
Women aged 20-29 were nearly 29 pounds heavier on average in 2002 compared to 1960. Women aged 40-49 were about 25.5 pounds heavier on average in 2002 compared to 1960.
83.4% of this was in the breasts however - note that the specific gravity of Silicon is ~ 2.3
If your site was slashdotted 24/7/365 it would be slow too.
By the way the Microsoft solution for this is SCOM 2007. The next version will have support for network devices. Doesn't scale very well. This reminds me - SMARTS is an excellent product.
Its about time we all agreed to stop using the apostrophe. Its nothing but a syntactic speed bump that grammar Nazis cling onto for what ever reason.
Gray Davis?
Traffic Shaping. If you have access to the router set up some traffic shaping so that after a few hours things just get laggier and laggier. He wont get the joy he needs out of his fix. Playing more will only worsen the problem. Eventually he will turn to something else. Your friend has an addictive side to his personality - he will probably at least try another MMO before giving up.
Portland has a pretty good train system (South of the Columbia river). It's very useful for a many things. Part of this is that Portland started zoning for light rail in the 1970's so that the city is sort of laid out so light rail can get you to work, home, or entertainment. Other western cities (e.g. Seattle) just put in a light rail and then hope that the right things get built near it. As for cost per mile - you have to account for life of the car. Lets say a reasonable commuter car costs ~$17,000 and will have 170,000 serviceable miles in it. When you buy a car your buying miles for ~ 10 cents per mile. Gas across the street is $2.35/Gal (which is low in a few years we will be back to $4.00) so that's ~10 per mile (while commuting). Add in a few cents for Tires and brakes (consumptive maintenance as opposed to preventative) and you come up with ~22 cents per mile. I come up with $2200 to 40 miles to work and back for 250 days per year. Parking fees can be highly variable. I park for free at work - but I don't work downtown. Some companies will subsidize bus passes. I guess if I was riding the bus every day I would save about $2000 per year but I would spend an hour more per day commuting. I find its not always easy to read on the bus because of space issues.
Someone in marketing has ~ 90% of all desktop users believing they need a Microsoft OS and has them willing to pay $$$ to get it.
You seem to be assuming these people are in Redmond. If they are in Hyderabad they probably are laughing. It is remarkable difficult to be too incompetent if you are a MS contractor in Hyderabad.
Bioalgea doesn't need fresh water - salt water will work just fine. Water that's been been poluted by agricultural run-off is also good. I'm not saying that Wind, Geothermal, etc. aren't valuable contrubutors - just that the perceived problems of biodeisel are not only solvable but relatively tractable.
Perl is Unitarianism. It borrows from (and tolerates) all the other religions. It's worshipers find it very open and freindly while followers of the all the religions suspect it because its such a chaotic mix.
It turns out that you are Methodist. Who knew?
I second this - it's one of the best games ever.
What we need is Biodiesel from algae http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html. Doesn't need farm land, helps bioremediate agracultural waste. Doable with technology we have today.