Cost benefit analysis. Same tool the company uses for decision making. If the ATM shorts me, I decide if the amount shorted is worth my time and hassle to correct. If not, I eat the loss as a cost of doing business. If the ATM gives me too much cash, I'll be a nice guy and tell them if they're open. If they're closed, I'm not going to derail my whole day so I can pay them back money that should never have been given to me by the machine *they're* responsible for (and insured on). Cost of doing business.
Nope. I worked at a money center filling the cash cassettes for most of the supermarkets in my area and a large number of bank ATMs. The serial numbers were not tracked. The ATMs are filled with money directly from the Federal Reserve, usually around 2 bricks per cassette. Cut off the plastic, tear off the straps, stuff it in the cassette. Though it might be possible to backtrack and deduce the serial numbers if brand new money was used (they're sequential) we deliberately avoid brand new money when filling ATMs because it tends to jam.
That's unusual, but not unheard of. I used to be one of the goblins that filled the ATM cash cassettes and we'd deliberately avoid using brand new money in ATMs as it tends to stick together. ATMs will count money internally and if it's a bad count (i.e. bills stuck together) it dumps it into a catch bin and starts over with the next bills in line in the cassette. Sometimes new money can't be avoided--you get what you get from Fed.
As far as the criminality of malfunctioning slots and ATMs . . . I think the vendor should eat the cost if their ATM is misconfigured. I'm not going to hunt down the correct individual/company/whatever to return the excess cash. If I'm feeling nice, I might tell the store clerk or whatever. Time = money. They get $2.00 for every transaction on that ATM. Fix the misconfiguration and subtract the loss from their profit.
I'm not sure, but I'll bet this carbon paper cuts quite easily. As mentioned above, carbon fiber can be cut with scissors. Tensile strength doesn't help much against a sharp blade.
Huge implications for . . . the ever-sought-after space elevator?
Sadly, no. TFA links to the actual paper. Tensile strength is on the order of 35 GPa. We'd need 65 GPa or more from a material with density similar to graphite.
b) Both KDE and Gnome borrow u/i design heavily from the Windows 95 Start Bar.
The task bar paradigm, perhaps, but I remember a devious reviewer on CNET or one of those computer tv shows back in the day Win95 came out who cheekily dragged the task bar to the top of the screen and "my computer" and the "recycle bin" to the right side of the desktop and asking "look familiar?"
That is, move lots of energy, a long distance, on a "truck". Theoretically, since you can draw nuclear energy from uranium, you should be able to convert lower-numbered elements into uranium to store energy.
It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes, silly. In all seriousness, yes, you can build hydrogen all the way up to Uranium. Happens all the time in supernovae. Well . . . some of the time. But that generates an awful lot of "waste heat" you aren't capturing, you have to ship the mass of the uranium out of the gravity well of a star, slow it down to catch it when it gets here (which will take tens or tens of thousands of years depending on how fast you throw it and which star you're using). I figure, if you can build a dyson sphere around a distant star, you can probably build a tightly focused high energy and high efficiency laser emitter and receiver/collector that'll recover a useful amount of power to make the whole ordeal worthwhile. Tho if you're that advanced, you might as well just go to that star and live there.
they should just give us plans for an easy never ending supply of renewable energy.
Here you go. Of course, that's not exactly "renewable" or "never ending" but it'll do for the next several hundred million years (depending on which fuel you pick). Billions if you can figure out commercially viable fusion.
This whole "energy crisis" nonsense isn't actually an energy problem, it's an infrastructure problem. What I really want are some more breakthroughs in energy storage. Batteries suck. I want something that'll power my car with comparable energy density and safety factors to gasoline.
What many people fail to realize is that a business also employs people while an entertainer rarely does
A concert employs dozens, if not hundreds, from ticket takers to sound and lighting engineers. How many people work in a recording studio, or the factory that presses discs? Heck, even a one-man-band at a coffee shop or bar might have some kid working the door, or at the very least keeps the establishment's own employees busy, sometimes requiring extra staff depending on how big of a crowd is drawn.
An entertainer has the crowd's attention focused on them by the very nature of what they do. Just because you don't notice the army of black-clad figures behind the scenes putting it all together and making it work, doesn't mean they're absent or unnecessary.
Have you ever stop to consider when software covered under the GPL will actually become public domain and no longer be bound by the terms of the GPL?
Assuming Linus lives to at least 70 (born in 1969), the Linux kernel will not be released into the public domain for another 101 years or so. And that's only the parts he wrote. I think it's safe to say that the FOSS community will not be harmed by the release of what will then probably be an ancient and rather quaint bit of software from the turn of the last century.
I'm wondering if they'll offer to allow you to transfer your lifetime subscription over to this new HD Tivo?
I believe the "lifetime" they were referring to when offering those subscriptions was the "lifetime" of the box itself, so I doubt they'll allow you to transfer.
The end user *could* go in and manually set process priorities, but they by no means *have* to. A desktop oriented distro could come with all these things optimized. That's the really nice thing about Linux--it can be customized for its intended use, then packaged up tidily that an end user doesn't need to fuss.
Don't believe me? Ever had to edit a conf file on a Tivo?
On digg the comments would be, "BUSH TEH DEVIL hax his internets."
Actually the comments on digg are more along the lines of "OMG! What does it take for congress to impeach Bush & Co!?!?! Sign my online petition to get the ball rolling!! I'm so voting for Ron Paul. He's the only one who will restore the constitution!"
Except that Algae yields vegetable oil, not petroleum. Transesterification of vegetable oil yields something almost entirely not quite unlike diesel fuel. It's similar enough that a diesel engine won't care, but there are certainly differences--it's biodegradable, non-toxic if processed correctly (some methanol is used in its production, it's still possible to have dangerous levels of methanol in a 'bad batch' so you really don't want to drink the stuff). And one of the biggest reasons you'll usually find it blended with petro-diesel: it basically turns into Jell-O in cold weather.
I don't know how they intend to get "bio-jet fuel" but I doubt they're synthesizing kerosene. Much like biodiesel production, I'm guessing they've found a way to process vegetable oil into something similar enough to kerosene that a jet engine won't mind.
Actually, they're talking about converting the harvested algae into bio-jetfuel, not straight hydrogen. It's pretty easy to get biodiesel from algae--extract the oil, then some fairly simple chemical reactions yield fuel that will work in any modern diesel engine with no modifications. This is nothing new. What's interesting is this company is working with Boeing and adding or changing a step in the conversion process to derive a fuel from algae suitable for jet engines instead of diesel engines.
Hydrogen isn't all that great as a combustion fuel. Energy density is weak, it's expensive to produce, store and transport and the added temperature and pressure regulating gear adds a lot of dead weight--which is especially bad for an aircraft.
Nature vs. Nurture. Many animals have at least some hard-coded fear responses (hiss at a bird that's never seen a cat or snake in its life) so there's no reason to think humans don't have instinctive fears to some degree as well. Fear of heights/falling was mentioned as one. We're startled by loud unexpected noises, features common to predatory animals are pretty universal across cultures, although I don't know how "learned" that behavior is--modern humans aren't often hunted by predatory animals and are probably told to keep away from them long before they ever encounter one in person.
They stopped releasing Open drivers for anything after the G450
And their closed drivers were awful. Especially their pitiful attempts at producing 2k/XP drivers. They left any customers unfortunate enough to purchase their G400-TV vidcap card (yeah, I was one of 'em) high and dry w/ no capture support in 2k/XP with little more than a "sorry, we give up. The zoran chip we charged you out the nose for is actually crap and you're better off without it anyway!" Don't even get me started on the OpenGL-DirectX wrapper nonsense they pulled.
They exited the consumer market, and while more competition is usually better for consumers, I say good riddance to Matrox.
Considering AMD has an antitrust lawsuit in progress against Intel in the US, Intel would be wise to avoid writing any "suggestions" in the memo line of that check they just cut for a piece of VMWare.
If VMWare starts optimizing for Intel-specific differences, or even does so much as slapping a "for best results, use Intel(tm) processors!" sticker on the box it's going to look very bad from where the judge is sitting.
The first result displayed was an AdWords listing entitled "Windows Undelete Freeware". I clicked it and looked all over the site but the company offered only paid undelete services.
It's against Google's rules to advertise a "free" product or service then bring customers to a landing page with no actual free offers. Of course, it's not very well enforced.
But more than that, it's stupid. They're paying for every click and attracting people who aren't actually interested in buying anything. The whole point of targeted PPC advertising is to attract people who are actually looking to buy your stuff./p.
And something makes me wonder exactly how many Wii customers are first time buyers...
My last console was an NES when I was a kid. I bought a Wii and really like it. My roommate is addicted to Super Paper Mario and friends who've been over to play some party games were disappointed I only had 2 wii motes. I know many other happy Wii owners who have ignored anything video game related since at least the Super Nintendo.
Considering Sony designed the PS2 in the first place, they're certainly in a much better position to emulate every quirk and "undocumented feature" of the PS2 than an outsider (who is probably forced to do a lot of reverse engineering and "whack a mole" style bug testing with many many different titles). I don't know if they actually did, but I can't think of a good reason why they shouldn't be able to produce a perfect emulator for their own platform.
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Cost benefit analysis. Same tool the company uses for decision making. If the ATM shorts me, I decide if the amount shorted is worth my time and hassle to correct. If not, I eat the loss as a cost of doing business. If the ATM gives me too much cash, I'll be a nice guy and tell them if they're open. If they're closed, I'm not going to derail my whole day so I can pay them back money that should never have been given to me by the machine *they're* responsible for (and insured on). Cost of doing business.
Nope. I worked at a money center filling the cash cassettes for most of the supermarkets in my area and a large number of bank ATMs. The serial numbers were not tracked. The ATMs are filled with money directly from the Federal Reserve, usually around 2 bricks per cassette. Cut off the plastic, tear off the straps, stuff it in the cassette. Though it might be possible to backtrack and deduce the serial numbers if brand new money was used (they're sequential) we deliberately avoid brand new money when filling ATMs because it tends to jam.
That's unusual, but not unheard of. I used to be one of the goblins that filled the ATM cash cassettes and we'd deliberately avoid using brand new money in ATMs as it tends to stick together. ATMs will count money internally and if it's a bad count (i.e. bills stuck together) it dumps it into a catch bin and starts over with the next bills in line in the cassette. Sometimes new money can't be avoided--you get what you get from Fed.
As far as the criminality of malfunctioning slots and ATMs . . . I think the vendor should eat the cost if their ATM is misconfigured. I'm not going to hunt down the correct individual/company/whatever to return the excess cash. If I'm feeling nice, I might tell the store clerk or whatever. Time = money. They get $2.00 for every transaction on that ATM. Fix the misconfiguration and subtract the loss from their profit.
I'm not sure, but I'll bet this carbon paper cuts quite easily. As mentioned above, carbon fiber can be cut with scissors. Tensile strength doesn't help much against a sharp blade.
Sadly, no. TFA links to the actual paper. Tensile strength is on the order of 35 GPa. We'd need 65 GPa or more from a material with density similar to graphite.
The task bar paradigm, perhaps, but I remember a devious reviewer on CNET or one of those computer tv shows back in the day Win95 came out who cheekily dragged the task bar to the top of the screen and "my computer" and the "recycle bin" to the right side of the desktop and asking "look familiar?"
I was referring mainly to safety in a collision.
A gasoline fire is nothing to sneeze at but it has to be mixed with air to explode. Batteries and capacitors can go off like bombs.
It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes, silly. In all seriousness, yes, you can build hydrogen all the way up to Uranium. Happens all the time in supernovae. Well . . . some of the time. But that generates an awful lot of "waste heat" you aren't capturing, you have to ship the mass of the uranium out of the gravity well of a star, slow it down to catch it when it gets here (which will take tens or tens of thousands of years depending on how fast you throw it and which star you're using). I figure, if you can build a dyson sphere around a distant star, you can probably build a tightly focused high energy and high efficiency laser emitter and receiver/collector that'll recover a useful amount of power to make the whole ordeal worthwhile. Tho if you're that advanced, you might as well just go to that star and live there.
Here you go. Of course, that's not exactly "renewable" or "never ending" but it'll do for the next several hundred million years (depending on which fuel you pick). Billions if you can figure out commercially viable fusion.
This whole "energy crisis" nonsense isn't actually an energy problem, it's an infrastructure problem. What I really want are some more breakthroughs in energy storage. Batteries suck. I want something that'll power my car with comparable energy density and safety factors to gasoline.
A concert employs dozens, if not hundreds, from ticket takers to sound and lighting engineers. How many people work in a recording studio, or the factory that presses discs? Heck, even a one-man-band at a coffee shop or bar might have some kid working the door, or at the very least keeps the establishment's own employees busy, sometimes requiring extra staff depending on how big of a crowd is drawn.
An entertainer has the crowd's attention focused on them by the very nature of what they do. Just because you don't notice the army of black-clad figures behind the scenes putting it all together and making it work, doesn't mean they're absent or unnecessary.
Assuming Linus lives to at least 70 (born in 1969), the Linux kernel will not be released into the public domain for another 101 years or so. And that's only the parts he wrote. I think it's safe to say that the FOSS community will not be harmed by the release of what will then probably be an ancient and rather quaint bit of software from the turn of the last century.
I believe the "lifetime" they were referring to when offering those subscriptions was the "lifetime" of the box itself, so I doubt they'll allow you to transfer.
The end user *could* go in and manually set process priorities, but they by no means *have* to. A desktop oriented distro could come with all these things optimized. That's the really nice thing about Linux--it can be customized for its intended use, then packaged up tidily that an end user doesn't need to fuss.
Don't believe me? Ever had to edit a conf file on a Tivo?
Actually the comments on digg are more along the lines of "OMG! What does it take for congress to impeach Bush & Co!?!?! Sign my online petition to get the ball rolling!! I'm so voting for Ron Paul. He's the only one who will restore the constitution!"
Buried as innacurate.
Except that Algae yields vegetable oil, not petroleum. Transesterification of vegetable oil yields something almost entirely not quite unlike diesel fuel. It's similar enough that a diesel engine won't care, but there are certainly differences--it's biodegradable, non-toxic if processed correctly (some methanol is used in its production, it's still possible to have dangerous levels of methanol in a 'bad batch' so you really don't want to drink the stuff). And one of the biggest reasons you'll usually find it blended with petro-diesel: it basically turns into Jell-O in cold weather.
I don't know how they intend to get "bio-jet fuel" but I doubt they're synthesizing kerosene. Much like biodiesel production, I'm guessing they've found a way to process vegetable oil into something similar enough to kerosene that a jet engine won't mind.
Actually, they're talking about converting the harvested algae into bio-jetfuel, not straight hydrogen. It's pretty easy to get biodiesel from algae--extract the oil, then some fairly simple chemical reactions yield fuel that will work in any modern diesel engine with no modifications. This is nothing new. What's interesting is this company is working with Boeing and adding or changing a step in the conversion process to derive a fuel from algae suitable for jet engines instead of diesel engines.
Hydrogen isn't all that great as a combustion fuel. Energy density is weak, it's expensive to produce, store and transport and the added temperature and pressure regulating gear adds a lot of dead weight--which is especially bad for an aircraft.
Nature vs. Nurture. Many animals have at least some hard-coded fear responses (hiss at a bird that's never seen a cat or snake in its life) so there's no reason to think humans don't have instinctive fears to some degree as well. Fear of heights/falling was mentioned as one. We're startled by loud unexpected noises, features common to predatory animals are pretty universal across cultures, although I don't know how "learned" that behavior is--modern humans aren't often hunted by predatory animals and are probably told to keep away from them long before they ever encounter one in person.
And their closed drivers were awful. Especially their pitiful attempts at producing 2k/XP drivers. They left any customers unfortunate enough to purchase their G400-TV vidcap card (yeah, I was one of 'em) high and dry w/ no capture support in 2k/XP with little more than a "sorry, we give up. The zoran chip we charged you out the nose for is actually crap and you're better off without it anyway!" Don't even get me started on the OpenGL-DirectX wrapper nonsense they pulled.
They exited the consumer market, and while more competition is usually better for consumers, I say good riddance to Matrox.
Considering AMD has an antitrust lawsuit in progress against Intel in the US, Intel would be wise to avoid writing any "suggestions" in the memo line of that check they just cut for a piece of VMWare.
If VMWare starts optimizing for Intel-specific differences, or even does so much as slapping a "for best results, use Intel(tm) processors!" sticker on the box it's going to look very bad from where the judge is sitting.
It's against Google's rules to advertise a "free" product or service then bring customers to a landing page with no actual free offers. Of course, it's not very well enforced.
But more than that, it's stupid. They're paying for every click and attracting people who aren't actually interested in buying anything. The whole point of targeted PPC advertising is to attract people who are actually looking to buy your stuff./p.
My last console was an NES when I was a kid. I bought a Wii and really like it. My roommate is addicted to Super Paper Mario and friends who've been over to play some party games were disappointed I only had 2 wii motes. I know many other happy Wii owners who have ignored anything video game related since at least the Super Nintendo.
Did they still pay you after you bit their hand off?
Depends on which billion you use.
Considering Sony designed the PS2 in the first place, they're certainly in a much better position to emulate every quirk and "undocumented feature" of the PS2 than an outsider (who is probably forced to do a lot of reverse engineering and "whack a mole" style bug testing with many many different titles). I don't know if they actually did, but I can't think of a good reason why they shouldn't be able to produce a perfect emulator for their own platform.
Whoa . . . it's like that episode of Doctor Who with the math people that keep the universe from ending . . .