The numbers are bullshit, but so are all these suggestions that the plates are magically causing MORE gas/battery power to be wasted than would happen otherwise.
Add together the energy required to lift the weight of the car up onto each plate, then back up from the level of the plate to street level after the plate has sunk down - you'll find it's more than the car would have used traveling the same distance on the level. They're effectively making each customer pay a levy to use their checkouts, yet making themselves look "greener" by shrouding it in misdirection.
I'm pretty sure I have Silverlight 2 running on my Mac OSX Leopard - it's what I use to watch the ITV Catch-up service. It's possible that it's just Silverlight 1, but I'm pretty sure the button I clicked to download it said "Silverlight 2.0"...
The only Windows I'll have in the house is Windows 2000. My day-to-day machine is a SuSE Linux box, and I have an OSX Leopard "Hackintosh" for things like when I need to stream video using "Silverlight". (I don't like it, but some TV catch-up services don't give a choice and reject "Moonlight" clients.)
it would work for me on a regular 4:3 screen as well, since I usually keep the web page displayed in a sort of "portrait" aspect ratio,
Good for you. I, on the other hand, have two 24" screens side-by-side in portrait mode. I'm already pissed off by how much space the redesign of iGoogle wastes, and adding space for tabs on the left of that will effectively lose me a quarter of one of my screens.
If you ask nicely they'll be able to give you large cardboard boxes with foam dividers inside intended for transporting large quantities of uncased drives.
I've got one I use for storing "spare" drives; it holds two rows of 10.
As I pointed out elsewhere, this solution works in situations like a college dorm room where you have free wi-fi access but no direct access to the router, and where multiple people are downloading different things from the same router.
Why attach it to a computer at all? If it's a wireless NIC and it's only getting power from the sleeping PC then attach it to a battery pack and leave it somewhere it's unlikely to be traced. Just take it home and plug it back in when the torrent has completed.
...it was a constant fight to get users to leave their computers on overnight so they could pick up the automatic patches and updates.
We had a really bad virus infestation which I traced to a cleaner who would run round unplugging all the computers moments after I left at night so our anti-virus updates weren't being applied.
Oooh... That brought back memories! I just ransacked my bookshelves and found a copy of Wiener's "The human use of human beings - cybernetics and society" (Original pub. 1950, my copy 1954...)
It's always irritated me that my online TV Guide uses "sci-fi" as a blanket category to include fantasy (Buffy) and simple fiction (Jericho). "Fantsay" would be so much more appropriate.
I know; that was the point I was making. For every kg of water fired downwards as thrust another kg must be lifted, thus negating it. At least blocking the end so the pipe fills with water under pressure would give some actual, measurable degree of support.:-)
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But the point remains that the supermarket isn't paying for it.
Add together the energy required to lift the weight of the car up onto each plate, then back up from the level of the plate to street level after the plate has sunk down - you'll find it's more than the car would have used traveling the same distance on the level. They're effectively making each customer pay a levy to use their checkouts, yet making themselves look "greener" by shrouding it in misdirection.
I'm pretty sure I have Silverlight 2 running on my Mac OSX Leopard - it's what I use to watch the ITV Catch-up service. It's possible that it's just Silverlight 1, but I'm pretty sure the button I clicked to download it said "Silverlight 2.0"...
The only Windows I'll have in the house is Windows 2000. My day-to-day machine is a SuSE Linux box, and I have an OSX Leopard "Hackintosh" for things like when I need to stream video using "Silverlight". (I don't like it, but some TV catch-up services don't give a choice and reject "Moonlight" clients.)
Left tentacle or right tentacle, surely?
I for one welcome our new alien overlords.
Hmm. That sounded cooler in my head.
Yes. The singular is spelled "LicenCe".
To return to the OP, it's neither - it's a TV licence.
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/buyorrenew/index.jsp
Good for you. I, on the other hand, have two 24" screens side-by-side in portrait mode. I'm already pissed off by how much space the redesign of iGoogle wastes, and adding space for tabs on the left of that will effectively lose me a quarter of one of my screens.
If you ask nicely they'll be able to give you large cardboard boxes with foam dividers inside intended for transporting large quantities of uncased drives.
I've got one I use for storing "spare" drives; it holds two rows of 10.
...is if some idiot spelled it with an "e".
"Whiskey" is American, Irish or Japanese.
http://www.tightvnc.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipcop/
As I pointed out elsewhere, this solution works in situations like a college dorm room where you have free wi-fi access but no direct access to the router, and where multiple people are downloading different things from the same router.
I think this is more useful in a work/shared environment where the user has wireless access but no direct configuration access to the router.
Or, if there's a handy mains outlet, just use one of the dumb "USB chargers" you can buy for your iPod etc.
Why attach it to a computer at all? If it's a wireless NIC and it's only getting power from the sleeping PC then attach it to a battery pack and leave it somewhere it's unlikely to be traced. Just take it home and plug it back in when the torrent has completed.
Sir Clive Sinclair.
...it was a constant fight to get users to leave their computers on overnight so they could pick up the automatic patches and updates.
We had a really bad virus infestation which I traced to a cleaner who would run round unplugging all the computers moments after I left at night so our anti-virus updates weren't being applied.
"Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill"
The "Treadmill" is silent.
Their joysticks were not half bad, either.
Win2K is the *only* version of Windoze that I *like*. :'-(
Oooh... That brought back memories! I just ransacked my bookshelves and found a copy of Wiener's "The human use of human beings - cybernetics and society" (Original pub. 1950, my copy 1954...)
I can't remember ever reading it. @'.'@
And the difference is...?
(Seriously - there was a *lot* of sex in "Buffy"...)
It's always irritated me that my online TV Guide uses "sci-fi" as a blanket category to include fantasy (Buffy) and simple fiction (Jericho). "Fantsay" would be so much more appropriate.
...it'll have the whole canon of 1930s Film Noir to use as reference material.
I know; that was the point I was making. For every kg of water fired downwards as thrust another kg must be lifted, thus negating it. At least blocking the end so the pipe fills with water under pressure would give some actual, measurable degree of support. :-)