We're talking about *tritium* here, not plutonium. It's just not all that dangerous as far as radioactive materials go. You might well be *WEARING* some right now if you have a watch that glows in the dark. Unless they're releasing hundreds of pounds of it at a time here (they aren't, there's ~165lbs of the stuff in the US right now) , any farm even a kilometer away is not a real health hazard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium
Oh man, thanks for weighing in on this. I'm glad that we someone with the high level of legal training that comes with an associate's degree in journalism here.
Seriously? You're sneering at 1 in 100? Selling one copy of your product to every 100 Americans in half a year? That's staggeringly successful. I'm no apple fanboy, but come on, that's freakin' impressive.
Animals deserve rights when they can specifically ask for them. The moment a chimp makes a sign on its own asking for equal treatment, I say we give it to them. Until then, it's monkey brains for dinner...
Big money goes around the world Big money take a cruise Big money leave a mighty wake Big money leave a bruise Big money make a million dreams Big money spin big deals Big money make a mighty head Big money spin big wheels
CMOS and CCD sensors were already pretty damn cheap, and even low end consumer grade cameras had as much as 7 Megapixels. The expense in high end stuff, I believe, is in the optics, storage systems proprietary logic and the like. Not to say, of course, that all sensors are the same, but still...
How can someone be a "Slashdot wannabe"?/. is free to join and open to all. Clearly they are slashdot don't-wannabes, even if you don't think the site in question is well designed or run.
Clearly this was intentional. I don't see how anyone can take this as anything less than a joke at MS and Yahoo's expense, probably an internal joke that got slipped under the nose of a manager by a software team.
And never put a man in space before? Hey, It's possible, and I wish you the best, but *good luck*
It's not like there's about to be a cold war style infusion of cash for ya.
What the world heard in July 1969 are what counted, not what he actually said, since those were the first words that humanity heard spoken on the moon.
Philo T Farnsworth called, he wants you to know that you're a little late.
Please give us a call when you produce a net gain in energy. Until then, thank you for your application.
Sincerely,
Everyone Else.
Until about ten minutes before we don't get lucky any more. The answer isn't less nuclear weapons, per se -- we'll always find a new way to kill each other. The answer is in getting people who want to kill others indescriminantly out of power.
"Sick of PC snobs bragging about their "superior" gaming rigs?
No, I'm sick of irrational fanbois telling me why I need to throw away my pc and spend hundreds (nearing thousands these days) on a console that is terrible at running the kinds of games I like.
And I'm also sick of the same fanbois going on about how the latest Sony PS n (where n = the current generation + 1) or Microsoft Xbox xxx (where xxx = the current generation * 360) is going to totally 'pwn' everything else and completely wipe out the PC as a gaming platform.
'Visual Radio' just isn't catchy, what we need is a hybrid word...perhaps if we use a buzzworld, like the prefix 'tele' from the newfangled telephone...so it's 'tele-visual entertainment'...hmm...kinda long though...
I know! We can replace visual with vision!
Tele-vision! I predict with this catchy new name, the technology will really go places. I perhaps, within ten years, every home in the first world will have one of these 'tele-vision's!
The key thing to remember in all this is that when it comes to advertising, you aren't the customer, you're the product. Cows can't complain to the farmer that the slaughterhouse isn't sanitary.
As someone else said, you can complain to the people who buy the ad space, but like cattle, that's likely to be just as effective. Therefore, the only thing you *can* do is fight, with alternative browsers, adware removal tools, good browsing habits, and by warning the rest of the, ahem, herd.
If we make the product unsavory, we can run the slaughterhouses out of business!
What the hell is a subjective benchmark?
I spent $200 and I percieve it to be slightly faster, therefore it must be a 4x performance improvement?
From the OBJECTIVE benchmarks I've seen, the move from 7200 -> 10k RPM yields a small result, and in some cases the next gen. of 7200 RPM drives *surpassed* the previous gen 10k.
Ultracapacitors have been around for a while. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracapacitors
They are commercially available -- manufactured by a company in San Diego called Maxwell Technologies. I believe there is a company in Reno making some as well.
...instead of static stereoscopy images we now have the VirtualBoy, instead...
apparrently YOU'VE travelled from a drastically different parallel universe from our own, where the virtual boy was something other that a complete failure.
Slashdot Mirror
We're talking about *tritium* here, not plutonium. It's just not all that dangerous as far as radioactive materials go. You might well be *WEARING* some right now if you have a watch that glows in the dark. Unless they're releasing hundreds of pounds of it at a time here (they aren't, there's ~165lbs of the stuff in the US right now) , any farm even a kilometer away is not a real health hazard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium
Actually, it had a 238 cylinder engine. Unfortunately, the name Orion was already taken.
Oh man, thanks for weighing in on this. I'm glad that we someone with the high level of legal training that comes with an associate's degree in journalism here.
Seriously? You're sneering at 1 in 100? Selling one copy of your product to every 100 Americans in half a year? That's staggeringly successful. I'm no apple fanboy, but come on, that's freakin' impressive.
I seriously doubt that the average /.er has had any actual oral communication in quite a while...
Actually...taking that a bit further...
868E9 kwh / yr * 1yr/(365.25*24)hr = 99E6 kw = 99GW
Assuming that every computer uses ~350Watts we get 99E9*W / 350 (W/Computer) ~= 283 Million computers
divide that by ~6 billion people on earth and you get 1 computer for every 21 people on earth. That seems to be a fairly conservative number.
Animals deserve rights when they can specifically ask for them. The moment a chimp makes a sign on its own asking for equal treatment, I say we give it to them. Until then, it's monkey brains for dinner...
Big money goes around the world
Big money take a cruise
Big money leave a mighty wake
Big money leave a bruise
Big money make a million dreams
Big money spin big deals
Big money make a mighty head
Big money spin big wheels
CMOS and CCD sensors were already pretty damn cheap, and even low end consumer grade cameras had as much as 7 Megapixels. The expense in high end stuff, I believe, is in the optics, storage systems proprietary logic and the like. Not to say, of course, that all sensors are the same, but still...
How can someone be a "Slashdot wannabe"? /. is free to join and open to all. Clearly they are slashdot don't-wannabes, even if you don't think the site in question is well designed or run.
Clearly this was intentional. I don't see how anyone can take this as anything less than a joke at MS and Yahoo's expense, probably an internal joke that got slipped under the nose of a manager by a software team.
try thist s+per+kilobyte+times+35893+kilobytes&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=.002+cen
Even more explicit.
And never put a man in space before? Hey, It's possible, and I wish you the best, but *good luck* It's not like there's about to be a cold war style infusion of cash for ya.
It's for the children! Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children! FORGET IT! Ban electricity! For the children! For the children!
What the world heard in July 1969 are what counted, not what he actually said, since those were the first words that humanity heard spoken on the moon.
Philo T Farnsworth called, he wants you to know that you're a little late. Please give us a call when you produce a net gain in energy. Until then, thank you for your application. Sincerely, Everyone Else.
How long will we keep getting lucky?
Until about ten minutes before we don't get lucky any more. The answer isn't less nuclear weapons, per se -- we'll always find a new way to kill each other. The answer is in getting people who want to kill others indescriminantly out of power.
Yarr, an informative film that be!
No, I'm sick of irrational fanbois telling me why I need to throw away my pc and spend hundreds (nearing thousands these days) on a console that is terrible at running the kinds of games I like.
And I'm also sick of the same fanbois going on about how the latest Sony PS n (where n = the current generation + 1) or Microsoft Xbox xxx (where xxx = the current generation * 360) is going to totally 'pwn' everything else and completely wipe out the PC as a gaming platform.
Anyone else read this and think it was some sort of flexible platform for 3-D acceleration?
'Visual Radio' just isn't catchy, what we need is a hybrid word...perhaps if we use a buzzworld, like the prefix 'tele' from the newfangled telephone...so it's 'tele-visual entertainment'...hmm...kinda long though... I know! We can replace visual with vision! Tele-vision! I predict with this catchy new name, the technology will really go places. I perhaps, within ten years, every home in the first world will have one of these 'tele-vision's!
The key thing to remember in all this is that when it comes to advertising, you aren't the customer, you're the product. Cows can't complain to the farmer that the slaughterhouse isn't sanitary.
As someone else said, you can complain to the people who buy the ad space, but like cattle, that's likely to be just as effective. Therefore, the only thing you *can* do is fight, with alternative browsers, adware removal tools, good browsing habits, and by warning the rest of the, ahem, herd.
If we make the product unsavory, we can run the slaughterhouses out of business!
What the hell is a subjective benchmark? I spent $200 and I percieve it to be slightly faster, therefore it must be a 4x performance improvement? From the OBJECTIVE benchmarks I've seen, the move from 7200 -> 10k RPM yields a small result, and in some cases the next gen. of 7200 RPM drives *surpassed* the previous gen 10k.
Ultracapacitors have been around for a while. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracapacitors They are commercially available -- manufactured by a company in San Diego called Maxwell Technologies. I believe there is a company in Reno making some as well.
...instead of static stereoscopy images we now have the VirtualBoy, instead... apparrently YOU'VE travelled from a drastically different parallel universe from our own, where the virtual boy was something other that a complete failure.