One thing you have to be wary of is that just putting the panels on your roof is not a wise idea even if you do figure out the right direction. A major factor that is just as important as the direction is the temperature of the panels. If you don't have the panels setup so there is good ventilation you can reduce their efficiency by up to 40-80% on a hot sunny day.
If your organization is only 100 people, and you get 5 to 10 support requests per minute, one wonders if you're doing something wrong.
Spoken like someone who reads specs but hasnt ever designed products that interact with end users. Answer me this question, do you buy a product designed to meet your average needs or one that meets your maximum peak needs ? When I read the request submitted I immediately understood he/she were talking about the maximum worst case scenario.
If Amazons spin doctors were on the ball they could say that the writers guild are trying to deny the visually impaired the ability to purchase books and read/listen to them just like everyone else who has fully functional sight.
Not sure how it works in the USA be here in Australia any legal contract that misrepresents consumer rights as stated in legislated consumer law can leave a company open to a AU$10,000 fine for each infringement found. A few years back I remember a case were someone got hurt by flying debris on a race track and the owner denied responsibility because on the back of the ticket it said the patrons had no rights to claim damages. Well it went to court the track owner not only had to pay the medical bills and damages but was dragged back into court for fraud and misrepresenting consumer law.
This is actually a common mistake by staff and management. The saying goes "tell my 100 ways to improve business one percent, not one way to improve business ninety-nine percent". The light-bulb moments were great ideas come forward are pretty rare and more often than not are a actually seen as a mistake when they are first seen or discovered. So if you have some silly idea or you find something annoying is happening in your work space and you have an idea on how to fix it, speak up, because in this day and age of pink slips being delivered by the truck full clever people are an asset not to be thrown out.
While we are here talking about all the different versions of Linux, why don't we get rid of all the different models of cars, who buys Ferrari's pfft, we can get rid of those for starters, what about Porsche, just over priced germen cars with the engine in the wrong end for over payed yuppies. Everyone should just buy a Ford or a Toyota 4 door saloon, imagine the money everyone would save on parts and the time wasted on looking for a car thats suits you.
For those with no sarcasm challenged, YES!! I am being sarcastic..
Recently I decided to update my old 30GB 5G iPOD as the battery wasn't holding a charge after 3 years of use. Although the iPOD is a great product it had allot of short comings for me with the major one being a lack of an equaliser. Well after a few months (Im patient) of getting specs of different media players and putting them in a spread sheet with points added for features I ended up purchasing a Cowon O2 pmp. I was slightly skeptical about the device when I selected it but now I have it there are zero regrets. The interface is just great and it has that missing 10 channel equaliser and a great high res display that put even the iPhone to shame. What really sets the O2 aside for me is the ability to play "any video or audio file format", yep FLAC mkv you name it and the O2 will play it. So my advice to Microsoft is go buy Cowon as they make the best pmp out there right now.
I find it amusing that US politicians are always talking about decreasing personal income tax, at the same time the corporate tax take has gone from 34% (1968) to just 15% in 2008. So who is paying the missing 19% of the tax take pie you may ask ? At the end of the day you and "your children" are as the government prints money and borrows. This gives the wonderful double whammy of an inflated currency (true worth of the currency drops) and a massive debt to pay off (over $3000 per person needs to be spent just to pay the interest every year). So as your tax money is used to bail out companies who pay less than 2% tax on total income thanks to off shored holdings you have to wonder who is getting screwed during this recession.
For those who can't grasp why anime fans cringe at a US production of live action version of Cowboy Bebop go watch Speed Racer. After you have watched it and stopped kicking the cat I dare say you will get the idea.
I had to think what you would use this for then hai bingo a media centre. Small enough to fit in a small shelf space, use it to access your media files on your home file server. Now I wonder if XBMC will work on it.
They stole my Steve Jobs joke, I posted a comment last year that Apple would one day finally remove all the keys and have one button, looks like the onion picked up on it.
Sooner or later University student councils are going to tell students not to "finish their research within the University". If I knew the University was going to patent one of my ideas with no recompense for my time you can guarantee if I had an eureka moment I would pack my bags and open my own home lab at that point. Im starting now hear reports of a massive lack of information flowing between students/teachers/Universities because everyone is chasing the magic $$. This as you can imagine is doing detrimental damage to University research as the same research is being repeated (and the tax payer paying for it multiple times) and little if any of the resulting information is being shared. Its a sad day when research information within Universities becomes a guarded commodity because this is totally against all previous policies of sharing information for the betterment of all.
One small problem with you poor example of comment wit, I have already mentioned it is the south pole so I really dont have to re mention exactly what arctic Im talking about unless you have a poor memory.
So please say sorry as I already know penguins are a southern bird species and its obvious your reading skills are lacking.
[Opening scene]
[Scene 1] South pole, miles and miles of snow, wind, sleet.
[Voice Over] Life can be hard when you're on your own
[Scene 2] zoom in an a lone emperor penguin with snow flakes blowing past it.
[Voice Over] But it just takes one person to share and before you know it.
[Scene 3] Two penguins move together.
[Scene 4] close up shot of lots of penguin feet walking on snow/ice
[Scene 4] Pan out, 20 penguins standing huddled together, more walking to join the group
[Scene 5] Hundreds of penguins huddling together, ice and snow are blasting away at them.
[Scene 6] the wind stops, penguins look out across the endless white of the arctic, a baby penguins head pops out.
[Ending credit] Linux, sharing the future.
[Large tentacled alien enters space station, glass doors slide open]
Shopkeeper "Hello sir how may I be helping you"
Queeg [vicious tone] "My name is queeg you puss filled mud breeder, show me your leader"
Shopkeeper "Sorry sir but the manager is not being in right now, would you like some jelly dogs, they are on special"
Queeg "hmm, they look good, give me two"
[a few minutes later alien leaves space station]
Shopkeeper [calls out] "thank you be coming again"
[Alien stops outside glass doors looks at food in tentacles]
Queeg "what the...."
As anyone knows if it is a company asset the user will not take as much care of it as they would something they had to pay for. Also coming from the communications industry I know that keys in general get jammed or clogged with all types of gunk and the iPhone doesn't have a keyboard.
I often see Blackberries in use and I have to admit they never seem to have protective covers unlike the iPhones I see.
I'm looking for a linux player that can handle thousands of songs, and ideally would allow me to rate each song as I hear it.
The next major release of Amarok built to work with QT4 will be using mysql, yes a full blown enterprise ready database back end not sqlite as it does right.
Doctor " Congratulations professor!! you have a new bouncing baby particle"
Professor "look at those electrons, its hung like a horse"
Doctor "eer, sorry to disappoint your sir but that is just residual background noise"
Jim "well it is this new quantum encryption software, everytime I open a new subject the encrypted output window is already full of encrypted text and I havent even typed anything.
IT Support "ah yes that is normal, it is a side effect of quantum state data transfer, you know, it arrives before it leaves etc, just ignore it"
Jim "out of curriosity has anyone ever tried decrypting the text before they have actually written the message"
IT Support "God no, dont ever do that, laws of time and space become screwed up, the last guy who tried that vanished with a sucking noise and was replaced by a plush cookie monster toy"
Slashdot Mirror
One thing you have to be wary of is that just putting the panels on your roof is not a wise idea even if you do figure out the right direction. A major factor that is just as important as the direction is the temperature of the panels. If you don't have the panels setup so there is good ventilation you can reduce their efficiency by up to 40-80% on a hot sunny day.
If your organization is only 100 people, and you get 5 to 10 support requests per minute, one wonders if you're doing something wrong.
Spoken like someone who reads specs but hasnt ever designed products that interact with end users. Answer me this question, do you buy a product designed to meet your average needs or one that meets your maximum peak needs ? When I read the request submitted I immediately understood he/she were talking about the maximum worst case scenario.
sorry I meant Authors guild..
If Amazons spin doctors were on the ball they could say that the writers guild are trying to deny the visually impaired the ability to purchase books and read/listen to them just like everyone else who has fully functional sight.
Not sure how it works in the USA be here in Australia any legal contract that misrepresents consumer rights as stated in legislated consumer law can leave a company open to a AU$10,000 fine for each infringement found. A few years back I remember a case were someone got hurt by flying debris on a race track and the owner denied responsibility because on the back of the ticket it said the patrons had no rights to claim damages. Well it went to court the track owner not only had to pay the medical bills and damages but was dragged back into court for fraud and misrepresenting consumer law.
This is actually a common mistake by staff and management. The saying goes "tell my 100 ways to improve business one percent, not one way to improve business ninety-nine percent". The light-bulb moments were great ideas come forward are pretty rare and more often than not are a actually seen as a mistake when they are first seen or discovered. So if you have some silly idea or you find something annoying is happening in your work space and you have an idea on how to fix it, speak up, because in this day and age of pink slips being delivered by the truck full clever people are an asset not to be thrown out.
For those with no sarcasm challenged, YES!! I am being sarcastic..
typo..
For those who are sarcasm challenged, YES!! I am being sarcastic..
While we are here talking about all the different versions of Linux, why don't we get rid of all the different models of cars, who buys Ferrari's pfft, we can get rid of those for starters, what about Porsche, just over priced germen cars with the engine in the wrong end for over payed yuppies. Everyone should just buy a Ford or a Toyota 4 door saloon, imagine the money everyone would save on parts and the time wasted on looking for a car thats suits you.
For those with no sarcasm challenged, YES!! I am being sarcastic..
Recently I decided to update my old 30GB 5G iPOD as the battery wasn't holding a charge after 3 years of use. Although the iPOD is a great product it had allot of short comings for me with the major one being a lack of an equaliser. Well after a few months (Im patient) of getting specs of different media players and putting them in a spread sheet with points added for features I ended up purchasing a Cowon O2 pmp. I was slightly skeptical about the device when I selected it but now I have it there are zero regrets. The interface is just great and it has that missing 10 channel equaliser and a great high res display that put even the iPhone to shame. What really sets the O2 aside for me is the ability to play "any video or audio file format", yep FLAC mkv you name it and the O2 will play it. So my advice to Microsoft is go buy Cowon as they make the best pmp out there right now.
I find it amusing that US politicians are always talking about decreasing personal income tax, at the same time the corporate tax take has gone from 34% (1968) to just 15% in 2008. So who is paying the missing 19% of the tax take pie you may ask ? At the end of the day you and "your children" are as the government prints money and borrows. This gives the wonderful double whammy of an inflated currency (true worth of the currency drops) and a massive debt to pay off (over $3000 per person needs to be spent just to pay the interest every year). So as your tax money is used to bail out companies who pay less than 2% tax on total income thanks to off shored holdings you have to wonder who is getting screwed during this recession.
For those who can't grasp why anime fans cringe at a US production of live action version of Cowboy Bebop go watch Speed Racer. After you have watched it and stopped kicking the cat I dare say you will get the idea.
I had to think what you would use this for then hai bingo a media centre. Small enough to fit in a small shelf space, use it to access your media files on your home file server. Now I wonder if XBMC will work on it.
They stole my Steve Jobs joke, I posted a comment last year that Apple would one day finally remove all the keys and have one button, looks like the onion picked up on it.
Sooner or later University student councils are going to tell students not to "finish their research within the University". If I knew the University was going to patent one of my ideas with no recompense for my time you can guarantee if I had an eureka moment I would pack my bags and open my own home lab at that point. Im starting now hear reports of a massive lack of information flowing between students/teachers/Universities because everyone is chasing the magic $$. This as you can imagine is doing detrimental damage to University research as the same research is being repeated (and the tax payer paying for it multiple times) and little if any of the resulting information is being shared. Its a sad day when research information within Universities becomes a guarded commodity because this is totally against all previous policies of sharing information for the betterment of all.
One small problem with you poor example of comment wit, I have already mentioned it is the south pole so I really dont have to re mention exactly what arctic Im talking about unless you have a poor memory.
So please say sorry as I already know penguins are a southern bird species and its obvious your reading skills are lacking.
Sorry typo, Antarctic as emperor penguins only breed down south.
[Opening scene]
[Scene 1] South pole, miles and miles of snow, wind, sleet.
[Voice Over] Life can be hard when you're on your own
[Scene 2] zoom in an a lone emperor penguin with snow flakes blowing past it.
[Voice Over] But it just takes one person to share and before you know it.
[Scene 3] Two penguins move together.
[Scene 4] close up shot of lots of penguin feet walking on snow/ice
[Scene 4] Pan out, 20 penguins standing huddled together, more walking to join the group
[Scene 5] Hundreds of penguins huddling together, ice and snow are blasting away at them.
[Scene 6] the wind stops, penguins look out across the endless white of the arctic, a baby penguins head pops out.
[Ending credit] Linux, sharing the future.
and god help you if you pronounce the name wrong....it's GOJIRA you moron!!
[Large tentacled alien enters space station, glass doors slide open] ...."
Shopkeeper "Hello sir how may I be helping you"
Queeg [vicious tone] "My name is queeg you puss filled mud breeder, show me your leader"
Shopkeeper "Sorry sir but the manager is not being in right now, would you like some jelly dogs, they are on special"
Queeg "hmm, they look good, give me two"
[a few minutes later alien leaves space station]
Shopkeeper [calls out] "thank you be coming again"
[Alien stops outside glass doors looks at food in tentacles]
Queeg "what the
Who would have thought God coded DNA using Perl...
As anyone knows if it is a company asset the user will not take as much care of it as they would something they had to pay for. Also coming from the communications industry I know that keys in general get jammed or clogged with all types of gunk and the iPhone doesn't have a keyboard. I often see Blackberries in use and I have to admit they never seem to have protective covers unlike the iPhones I see.
I'm looking for a linux player that can handle thousands of songs, and ideally would allow me to rate each song as I hear it.
The next major release of Amarok built to work with QT4 will be using mysql, yes a full blown enterprise ready database back end not sqlite as it does right.
Doctor " Congratulations professor!! you have a new bouncing baby particle"
Professor "look at those electrons, its hung like a horse"
Doctor "eer, sorry to disappoint your sir but that is just residual background noise"
[Death walking away muttering]
Death "SO DISAPPOINTING"
Jim "well it is this new quantum encryption software, everytime I open a new subject the encrypted output window is already full of encrypted text and I havent even typed anything.
IT Support "ah yes that is normal, it is a side effect of quantum state data transfer, you know, it arrives before it leaves etc, just ignore it"
Jim "out of curriosity has anyone ever tried decrypting the text before they have actually written the message"
IT Support "God no, dont ever do that, laws of time and space become screwed up, the last guy who tried that vanished with a sucking noise and was replaced by a plush cookie monster toy"