Why not have spent the money passing this bill on educating the populace about turning off unused equipment. How many offices have the monitors turned on 24/7 along with the photocopiers and fax machines. Electrical equipment in standby mode uses almost the same amount of power as when on but the perception is that they are "off".
I've have an Intelligent Mains Extension Lead six sockets, one is black into which you plug your PC power cable. All my peripherals are plugged into the remaining sockets. When the PC powers up the extension lead detects the power consumption and allows power to the additional sockets used for the peripherals in time for them to be available when the PC boots. When you power down the PC, power is cut off to the other sockets automatically switching off the peripherals.
Well said, if only I'd kept quite I could have given you some of my moderator points but then, would you have been able to make the comment? Oh the paradox;o)
Everything MSFT does is to benefit the stock holders through locking the "customers" into their system.
Isn't this what buisness is about? Don't get me wrong I abhore some of M$'s tactics but they are in buisness to make money not necessarily please customers. In an ideal world the two go hand in hand but for the vast majority of the non-techie users out there M$ does please them. They can send their gran a birthday letter in word and she can open it on her PC because she has Windows/Office too.
Their lack of standards support is atrocious but it does benefit them or they wouldn't persist in doing it. The technically savvy amongst users all know it's wrong but they'll do it anyway as the remaining majority of users just don't care.
I mean I can save an OpenOffice document on my Gentoo box and my friend can open it in FreeBSD with OpenOffice [or whatever].
That's exactly what we should all be able to do but cui bono? Who benefits from this ability? You as a user of non-M$ products and anyone else you know that doesn't use them. Why does M$ care about you if you don't use their products? You're not making them money so why bother allowing you this ease of use?
Please don't think this is an attack on your point of view, I agree with the sentiment whole heartedly but what your asking for is that M$ be altruistic in it's approach to developing apps and I think Bill saves his altruism for the Gates Foundation. The one hope is that governments are beginning to insist on having open document formats and the goverment IT market is something M$ wants a big slice of. You may just get what you desire but only once it becomes profitable for M$ to do so.
So you'd like to syphon off and store the anti-matter particles from the matter particles that spontaneously pop into existence in a vaccum due to the laws of quatum mechanics and special relativity before recombining them with matter particles to create energy? Appropriate that the author of the article wrote about The Physics of Star Trek. Anyone got some dilithium crystals please?
Congratulations MS your OS is slow but you've made a document application faster!
Hmmm which is better, slow OS and faster app or fast OS and slower app? I'd be interested in seeing some overall performance figures. I guess if you love MS you'll put up with a slow clunky OS and 'love' the faster app or if you're anti-MS you'll 'love' your faster OS and put up with a slower app.
Whatever comes out on top I don't care as long as I don't get locked in to either...
It's not only insects we're mimicing, crustaceans too. Astronomers have investigated the eyes of lobsters and used the way they focus light to create a Lobster Telescope For X-Rays
Aren't we all going to have a media center PC that we get all our entertainment through, at least I thought that was Bill's ultimate plan for us all. No problem then, I'll just minimize the TV window whilst the ads are on [but I'm not switching them off] surf slashdot to check for dupes;-) and then maximise the window again when the ads finish. When will companies realise that whatever efforts they put in to try and force something on consumers will be out matched by the efforts of consumers to get around the enforcement. Nice try Phillips!
Why not reinvent the wheel, the EU is doing it with Galileo to reivent GPS so why not reinvent Google as well? One possible reason is how protective of their native tounge the French are, they even have an institute l'Académie Française (translation
) dedicated to protecting it from contamination of foreign words! This battle is intense in the anglophone-dominated realm of the internet which the institue would rather refer to as toile d'arraigée-mondiale (TAM) rather than World Wide Web (WWW)
1757 - Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides.
In France, the traditional punishment for regicide or attempted regicide under the ancien régime is often described as "quartering", though it in fact has little to do with the English punishment. The process was as follows: the regicide would be first tortured with red-hot pincers, then the hand with which the crime was committed would be burnt with sulphur and molten lead and wax and boiling oil poured into the wounds. The quartering would be accomplished by the attachment of the victim's limbs to horses, who would then tear them away from the body. Finally, the often still-living torso would be burnt.
How many average PC users would be able to maintain a Linux box? It's hard enough for most of them to simply use Windows let alone manage a PC. Can you really see a vast majority of people switching OS? The worst thing would be that once the Linux population gets to a significant proportion it would become worthwhile to write viruses and spyware for it. The elite niche that Linux users enjoy is part of it protection, not just because it's more robust. I'm sure given sufficient motivation there are exploits to be found in Linux as well. For now any reasonably clued up Windows users can avoid most of the problems associated with viruses and spyware.
...alert them to the presence of our resource rich planet?
Fortunately with the inherint limits of the speed of light for signalling and travel we are well on course to use up all our resources before aliens can reach us
That'll learn them - come half way across the galaxy to steal our resources only to find we've used them all up and trashed the planet. WAH HA HA HA HAAAAGH!
I'm still waiting for the first day of a new job not to consist of utter terror as you begin to pick through the previous employee's code. I've yet to find anything that's half readable.
I'd like to think that all my old code was a welcome sight to my replacement but they're probably thinking exactly the same thing of me.
Coding conventions and naming schemes are excellent to minimise variations but everyone still has they're own style that makes code other than your own much less easy to read.
Just thought that as long as the energy comes from geo sources your extracting energy from the environment so dissipating it back as heat won't affect the overall energy budget. If we go nuclear then that will be an external source of energy and the dissipated heat will be added to the overall geo-energy budget and possibly make hurricanes worse. (apologies I don't know the correct terminology - someone care to help?)
We've always had a greenhouse effect thankfully or none of us would even be here. The greenhouse gases do a fantastic job of trapping the sun's energy to keep our planet at the ideal temperature for life. The real problem is that we're accelerating the greenhouse effect massively because of the rapid rise in greenhouse gas emissions over the previous centuary and well into the next unless some fundamental change occurs
It has struck me that even with unlimited renewable carbon-neutral energy for us all to use, that energy will still dissipate to heat and excessive use will heat our planet from the inside anyway.
I think most people would agree that the first computer in the sense that we understand today would be Babbage's machine but this wasn't the original understanding of the term.
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True but it's the summary is wrong so if you RTFA it was actually Polonium and Radium she discovered ...
Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all of the processes associated with the production of a building, from the acquisition of natural resources to product delivery." and as you can see from the graph, Concrete has far and away the highest of any material. It also has far and away the lowest value when it comes to recycling at the end of its life.
The fact that this absorbs pollution ofsets this but does it actually become a green material for construction?Ouch! You send two reasonable posts IMO and you get flamebait and troll, karma gets a hammering. Where's some mod points when you need them?
Why not have spent the money passing this bill on educating the populace about turning off unused equipment. How many offices have the monitors turned on 24/7 along with the photocopiers and fax machines. Electrical equipment in standby mode uses almost the same amount of power as when on but the perception is that they are "off". I've have an Intelligent Mains Extension Lead six sockets, one is black into which you plug your PC power cable. All my peripherals are plugged into the remaining sockets. When the PC powers up the extension lead detects the power consumption and allows power to the additional sockets used for the peripherals in time for them to be available when the PC boots. When you power down the PC, power is cut off to the other sockets automatically switching off the peripherals.
Well said, if only I'd kept quite I could have given you some of my moderator points but then, would you have been able to make the comment? Oh the paradox ;o)
Isn't this what buisness is about? Don't get me wrong I abhore some of M$'s tactics but they are in buisness to make money not necessarily please customers. In an ideal world the two go hand in hand but for the vast majority of the non-techie users out there M$ does please them. They can send their gran a birthday letter in word and she can open it on her PC because she has Windows/Office too.
Their lack of standards support is atrocious but it does benefit them or they wouldn't persist in doing it. The technically savvy amongst users all know it's wrong but they'll do it anyway as the remaining majority of users just don't care.
I mean I can save an OpenOffice document on my Gentoo box and my friend can open it in FreeBSD with OpenOffice [or whatever].That's exactly what we should all be able to do but cui bono? Who benefits from this ability? You as a user of non-M$ products and anyone else you know that doesn't use them. Why does M$ care about you if you don't use their products? You're not making them money so why bother allowing you this ease of use?
Please don't think this is an attack on your point of view, I agree with the sentiment whole heartedly but what your asking for is that M$ be altruistic in it's approach to developing apps and I think Bill saves his altruism for the Gates Foundation. The one hope is that governments are beginning to insist on having open document formats and the goverment IT market is something M$ wants a big slice of. You may just get what you desire but only once it becomes profitable for M$ to do so.
So you'd like to syphon off and store the anti-matter particles from the matter particles that spontaneously pop into existence in a vaccum due to the laws of quatum mechanics and special relativity before recombining them with matter particles to create energy? Appropriate that the author of the article wrote about The Physics of Star Trek. Anyone got some dilithium crystals please?
The asteroid has already passed at 04:44 GMT across North America
Congratulations MS your OS is slow but you've made a document application faster! Hmmm which is better, slow OS and faster app or fast OS and slower app? I'd be interested in seeing some overall performance figures. I guess if you love MS you'll put up with a slow clunky OS and 'love' the faster app or if you're anti-MS you'll 'love' your faster OS and put up with a slower app. Whatever comes out on top I don't care as long as I don't get locked in to either ...
It's not only insects we're mimicing, crustaceans too. Astronomers have investigated the eyes of lobsters and used the way they focus light to create a Lobster Telescope For X-Rays
Aren't we all going to have a media center PC that we get all our entertainment through, at least I thought that was Bill's ultimate plan for us all. No problem then, I'll just minimize the TV window whilst the ads are on [but I'm not switching them off] surf slashdot to check for dupes ;-) and then maximise the window again when the ads finish. When will companies realise that whatever efforts they put in to try and force something on consumers will be out matched by the efforts of consumers to get around the enforcement. Nice try Phillips!
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by algorithms
Unlike the rest of his drivel I'd be very supportive of the naked jello-wrestling idea!
You and a plenty of others by the lack of /. affect, a case where not RTFA is a bonus!
Well someone more stupid runs the US so anythings possible!
Why not reinvent the wheel, the EU is doing it with Galileo to reivent GPS so why not reinvent Google as well? One possible reason is how protective of their native tounge the French are, they even have an institute l'Académie Française (translation ) dedicated to protecting it from contamination of foreign words! This battle is intense in the anglophone-dominated realm of the internet which the institue would rather refer to as toile d'arraigée-mondiale (TAM) rather than World Wide Web (WWW)
1757 - Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides.
In France, the traditional punishment for regicide or attempted regicide under the ancien régime is often described as "quartering", though it in fact has little to do with the English punishment. The process was as follows: the regicide would be first tortured with red-hot pincers, then the hand with which the crime was committed would be burnt with sulphur and molten lead and wax and boiling oil poured into the wounds. The quartering would be accomplished by the attachment of the victim's limbs to horses, who would then tear them away from the body. Finally, the often still-living torso would be burnt.How many average PC users would be able to maintain a Linux box? It's hard enough for most of them to simply use Windows let alone manage a PC. Can you really see a vast majority of people switching OS? The worst thing would be that once the Linux population gets to a significant proportion it would become worthwhile to write viruses and spyware for it. The elite niche that Linux users enjoy is part of it protection, not just because it's more robust. I'm sure given sufficient motivation there are exploits to be found in Linux as well. For now any reasonably clued up Windows users can avoid most of the problems associated with viruses and spyware.
Fortunately with the inherint limits of the speed of light for signalling and travel we are well on course to use up all our resources before aliens can reach us
That'll learn them - come half way across the galaxy to steal our resources only to find we've used them all up and trashed the planet. WAH HA HA HA HAAAAGH!
I'm still waiting for the first day of a new job not to consist of utter terror as you begin to pick through the previous employee's code. I've yet to find anything that's half readable.
I'd like to think that all my old code was a welcome sight to my replacement but they're probably thinking exactly the same thing of me.
Coding conventions and naming schemes are excellent to minimise variations but everyone still has they're own style that makes code other than your own much less easy to read.
Completely off topic but Buttle was the main character in Terry Gillingham's fantasy Brazil
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Just thought that as long as the energy comes from geo sources your extracting energy from the environment so dissipating it back as heat won't affect the overall energy budget. If we go nuclear then that will be an external source of energy and the dissipated heat will be added to the overall geo-energy budget and possibly make hurricanes worse. (apologies I don't know the correct terminology - someone care to help?)
We've always had a greenhouse effect thankfully or none of us would even be here. The greenhouse gases do a fantastic job of trapping the sun's energy to keep our planet at the ideal temperature for life. The real problem is that we're accelerating the greenhouse effect massively because of the rapid rise in greenhouse gas emissions over the previous centuary and well into the next unless some fundamental change occurs
It has struck me that even with unlimited renewable carbon-neutral energy for us all to use, that energy will still dissipate to heat and excessive use will heat our planet from the inside anyway.
Originally, a "computer" was a person who performed numerical calculations under the direction of a mathematician, often with the aid of a variety of mechanical calculating devices from the abacus onward.
I think most people would agree that the first computer in the sense that we understand today would be Babbage's machine but this wasn't the original understanding of the term.