One of the big electricity hogs in our house is the pool pump, and there's not much you can do about that; if you don't pump long enough on the pool every day, it turns green.
Use an opaque cover, add chlorine, or just drain the water out. You're right about the solar panels though.
OpenDocument or ODF "became an officially published ISO and IEC International Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) on November 30, 2006... The OpenDocument format is intended to provide an open alternative to proprietary document formats so organizations and individuals can avoid being locked in to [and outlive] a single vendor."
This has a significant impact on criminals... It took several months for people's behavior to change ( which was odd...I expected it to change almost overnight ) But now all we have is an occasional vagrant.
This theory also explains the "unexpected" delay: Basically you scared away some of the normal people, the potential victims and once there were less of them around the criminals followed.
The RedOwl, built on an iRobot packbot platform and controlled via a modified Xbox videogame controller, can figure out the location of a target 3,000 feet away"
you light him up like a Christmas tree and shoot him in the head with a 50 cent bullet
Unfortunately by the time iRobot hears the shot from 3,000 feet away the sniper has ducked out of sight.
Developing games for Vista/Xbox is considerably easier than any other platform in history.
Back in the day, I developed state-of-the-art games for the Nascom Computer in under a week. You would need a team of a hundred to do that on Vista/Xbox. Developing games gets harder with every new platform.
designed to defend against shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles during takeoffs and landings.
Wouldn't it be better and cheaper to base this on the ground at the small proportion of airports used by large passenger aircraft, not on the aircraft themselves? That way size and weight wouldn't matter, it would be in a less hostile environment, and maintenance would be easer?
On this subject, Dorpus knows what he's talking about. Whenever you adjust a study for biases, this effectively reduces the sample size, and 184 is anyway a pathetically small number on which to base any dramatic conclusion.
Also there's a fundamental problem with small medical studies that you get "reporting bias". The 99 studies where there's no dramatic result are ignored by Slashdot and the media. The 1 where something odd is reported gets all the press interest. So take the results with a huge pinch of salt and wait for it to be replicated - or more likely not.
I don't think that any agency in the UK will be granted any information that is not relevant to their role.
It's quite difficult to research this, as I don't speak Danish, but here's one example of how your personal data from the CPR gets sent to potential spammers. If you are happy with this, that's your choice.
IDA is entitled to obtain address details from "Centrale Personregister" (The Central Register of Personal Data). The information is registered in order to enable IDA to provide you with the best possible advice and to be able to look after your interests... information is passed on to IDA's cooperating partners e.g. public authorities, insurance companies, bank direct debit services, professional organizations, collective agreement partners and "Ingeniøren" (the magazine).
... also painters, electricians, interior decorators, glaziers, etc.. This system seems to miss out most of the fiddly, expensive jobs.
How does it put the layer of insulation in the wall cavities? Is there a way of producing foamed concrete? That would be cool.
Finally "possibly even wallpaper". This is a really bad idea. I used to live in the Barbican in London, which used textured concrete surfaces for the walls of its stairs and communal areas, and my knuckles still bear the scars
Crime requires poor people. This is because rich people make the laws (or buy the politicians who do) and they're not stupid, so crime is what poor people do.
But crime reporting requires rich people. This is because their taxes fund the police.
So to get a lot of reported crime, you need both poor people (to do it) and rich people (so it's reported). Hence this apparant effect.
Does Income Inequality Matter? No, but it appears to matter.
License and agents' fees compete with the development budget
You generally have a rigid deadline, because marketing is shared with the DVD launch or something, so the game has to be launched even if it's not debugged.
Design is harder. Many of your best ideas won't exactly fit the original property. If you use them, reviewers complain. If you don't use them, the game is weaker.
Artwork is harder. Artists have to spend time making Kirk look like Kirk, or whoever, instead of creating cool action effects.
So why do it? Because marketing a licensed game is *much* easier than trying to promote an original concept. Most sales are at huge discounts to big retailers (think Walmart and Book/Game-of-the-Month Clubs), but a good license is as close to a sure bet as anything in gaming.
Transformers certainly get less efficient if you increase the gaps between the components. Think of it like this: one half of the transformer is using electricity to produce a varying magnetic field; the other half is intercepting the varying magnetic field and using its energy to generate electricity; if you increase the spacing then less of the magnetic field is intercepted. This means the system works less hard, so overall it's cooler, but presumably charging takes longer.
My electric toothbrush works like this. Basically half the transformer is in the handle end of the toothbrush, and the other half is wrapped around a socket that it plugs into. Apparantly brushes like this have been available since 1997.
In 2005 a controversial paper in The Lancet introduced a theory that BSE might have originated in British cattle when they ate imported animal feed that included infected human remains from Hindu funeral ceremonies in India. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
This theory has some merit because scrapie from sheep does not appear to infect people, whereas BSE from cattle does.
Described as the 'holy grail' of flu vaccines, it would protect against all strains of influenza A - the virus behind both bird flu and the nastiest outbreaks of winter flu.....
Importantly, the vaccines would also be quicker and easier to make than the traditional jabs, meaning vast quantities could be stockpiled against a global outbreak of bird flu.
If the vaccine protects against all strains of influenza A, why stockpile it? Surely just vaccinating people would be simpler and protect them immediately. There are several mentions of stockpiling, so I really wonder whether this article is accurate.
WSJ: You watch physics lectures and Harlem Globetrotters [on YouTube]?
Gates: This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.
WSJ: But those were stolen, correct?
Gates: Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes. Tue, 06/20/2006
As another poster has said, the problem with this database is that even the most honest among us commit some crimes so it makes it easier for the police to arrest anyone. Prison space is finite so in practice they arrest the people they don't like, which could be you. It certainly won't be billionaires.
As they were set up, the Yahoo! News message boards allowed a small number of vocal users to dominate the discussion. In addition, related discussions from similar news articles were not easily linked. Over the next few months, we plan to offer new discussion forums based on topics in the news and incorporating the latest features to foster a better discussion for all of our readers.
Translation: you are horrible, horrible people. We'll take the discussion forums down for a few months, until all you bigots go elsewhere, then start again with better readers.
Slashdot Mirror
OpenDocument or ODF "became an officially published ISO and IEC International Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) on November 30, 2006 ... The OpenDocument format is intended to provide an open alternative to proprietary document formats so organizations and individuals can avoid being locked in to [and outlive] a single vendor."
These links about government surveys show that CCTV has almost no effect on crime.
link, link, link (PDF), link, link (PDF).
Though I'm not as mean as the AC parent. "Growth and Ambition?" Pah!
Age is a factor if most of the candidate's experience is irrelevant.
One interesting negative point concerned those people (sometimes found here too) who believe that you only get what you pay for.
On this subject, Dorpus knows what he's talking about. Whenever you adjust a study for biases, this effectively reduces the sample size, and 184 is anyway a pathetically small number on which to base any dramatic conclusion.
Also there's a fundamental problem with small medical studies that you get "reporting bias". The 99 studies where there's no dramatic result are ignored by Slashdot and the media. The 1 where something odd is reported gets all the press interest. So take the results with a huge pinch of salt and wait for it to be replicated - or more likely not.
No, Slashdot programmers, nothing important was missing from my comment.
The Danish Society of Engineers
... also painters, electricians, interior decorators, glaziers, etc.. This system seems to miss out most of the fiddly, expensive jobs.
How does it put the layer of insulation in the wall cavities? Is there a way of producing foamed concrete? That would be cool.
Finally "possibly even wallpaper". This is a really bad idea. I used to live in the Barbican in London, which used textured concrete surfaces for the walls of its stairs and communal areas, and my knuckles still bear the scars
- Crime requires poor people. This is because rich people make the laws (or buy the politicians who do) and they're not stupid, so crime is what poor people do.
- But crime reporting requires rich people. This is because their taxes fund the police.
- So to get a lot of reported crime, you need both poor people (to do it) and rich people (so it's reported). Hence this apparant effect.
Does Income Inequality Matter? No, but it appears to matter....because 'phone is short for telephone, dammit, so it needs an apostrophe.
Not much, I know, but it's the nearest I can easily get to nuking civilization from orbit.
Seems these dead songwriters had a similar idea.
- License and agents' fees compete with the development budget
- You generally have a rigid deadline, because marketing is shared with the DVD launch or something, so the game has to be launched even if it's not debugged.
- Design is harder. Many of your best ideas won't exactly fit the original property. If you use them, reviewers complain. If you don't use them, the game is weaker.
- Artwork is harder. Artists have to spend time making Kirk look like Kirk, or whoever, instead of creating cool action effects.
So why do it? Because marketing a licensed game is *much* easier than trying to promote an original concept. Most sales are at huge discounts to big retailers (think Walmart and Book/Game-of-the-Month Clubs), but a good license is as close to a sure bet as anything in gaming.Transformers certainly get less efficient if you increase the gaps between the components. Think of it like this: one half of the transformer is using electricity to produce a varying magnetic field; the other half is intercepting the varying magnetic field and using its energy to generate electricity; if you increase the spacing then less of the magnetic field is intercepted. This means the system works less hard, so overall it's cooler, but presumably charging takes longer.
My electric toothbrush works like this. Basically half the transformer is in the handle end of the toothbrush, and the other half is wrapped around a socket that it plugs into. Apparantly brushes like this have been available since 1997.
In 2005 a controversial paper in The Lancet introduced a theory that BSE might have originated in British cattle when they ate imported animal feed that included infected human remains from Hindu funeral ceremonies in India.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
This theory has some merit because scrapie from sheep does not appear to infect people, whereas BSE from cattle does.
WSJ: You watch physics lectures and Harlem Globetrotters [on YouTube]?
Gates: This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.
WSJ: But those were stolen, correct?
Gates: Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.
Tue, 06/20/2006
As another poster has said, the problem with this database is that even the most honest among us commit some crimes so it makes it easier for the police to arrest anyone. Prison space is finite so in practice they arrest the people they don't like, which could be you. It certainly won't be billionaires.
- Broadcast emails with embedded "premium content", as an image or whatever
- Every Recipient's Vista turns off its hi-res graphics, sound etc.
- Recipients have to pay for instructions to undo the self-inflicted damage
- Profit!
IANAL but I can spell "class action suit". I suspect this plan might even be legal if the sender owns the "premium content".