If you're a Sky TV customer though, their broadband is cheap or even free, depending on the package, so for those people it's probably hard to beat.
Personally I'm on Virgin broadband, and if anyone was offering more than 2Mbps DSL where I live, I'd switch, but right now I don't seem to have an option. My connection used to be good, but something about the way they've implemented their traffic management, or perhaps some other aspect of their network changes over the last year, means that my connection at times is practically useless.
While many of the comments so far are focussing on the issue of toilets, as does the summary, it's the whole sewage infrastructure that's the issue. In the African cities I've been to, large areas don't have proper underground sewers, and sewage is carried in stinking open gutters at the side of the road; having any kind of toilet doesn't help if it's flushing into those open sewers. TFA talks about supporting construction of pit latrines in slums that lack any form of sanitation, so it seems they are being quite practical about working with the existing infrastructure.
That's the only interesting part though, the rest can be summed up as "Complete asshole behaves like complete asshole". There was nothing technical clever or new about what he did, although he went further than most such incidents I've heard of, but few slashdotters will be at all surprised that that kind of thing is possible. The only surprise is that it doesn't happen more often, more subtly... or does it?
FTA: "Distracted driving definitions. Distracted driving immediately brings to mind cell phones and texting, and perhaps use of other electronic devices. But there are many more driving distractions: activities like eating, changing a CD, or talking to other passengers; billboards or other objects outside the car; even planning the day’s work, rehashing an emotional moment from the previous night, or just daydreaming. It is useful to begin by defining what distracted driving means. "
Glad to see this study acknowledges that there are an awful lot of distractions other than cellphones, most of which can't reasonably be banned. It also mentions that there's no evidence that cellphone or texting bans have any effect on accident rate. So focussing all attention on banning cellphone usage is not the solution, or at least not the only solution. Personally thing most likely to distract me is incompetent drivers who don't know which lane they're supposed to be in, when to signal, or when to join a roundabout. Learn to drive, people.
That may be the case where you live, but in the UK, wind power depends on subsidies to exist at all. In fact on top of the subsidies, we've been paying wind farms to NOT produce electricity. The trouble is our peak demand for energy is in winter, when we have a large stable high pressure zone over the UK, leading to very cold clear conditions, and that same high pressure zone means no wind. Hence wind farms are almost useless when they're needed most, but producing power when it's not needed. Until economically viable ways of storing energy from wind farms is found, they'll never be economically viable in the UK, and such storage appears to be a long way off at the moment.
"So how do you actually make the money needed to make it viable in the long term?"
There will be plenty of repeat views, I'd think. Any time there's a flood/tsunami/volcanic ash cloud/other large-scale natural phenomenon, their problem is more likely to be keeping up with demand than anything else. Plenty of ad revenue.
The Intel Sandy Bridge parts (which I assume the GP is referring to) do have integrated graphics, but as the article says, the point here is that the Llano graphics outperformed the Sandy Bridge integrated graphics by 2-4x. Enough to make the difference between entry-level 3D gaming and no 3D gaming.
The article fails to explain what's new here, a major failing since most every slashdotter will have heard of circuit repair pens. These guys apparently used silver nano-particles and hydroxyethyl cellulose to create a flexible conductor, presumably much more so than the circuit repair pens that have been around forever. I must admit I've never tried using a repair pen on something flexible, but I'm guessing it dries pretty rigid.
"A nearly year-long study conducted by WDS on 600,000 support calls has found that some phones are more susceptible to hardware faults than other phones."
FTFY. If you take the flamebait out of it, that's all it's saying. Android phones are manufactured by a large number of manufacturers, and some of them are a bit cheap and nasty.
"But were they truly netbooks, with no moving parts?"
That's your own made-up definition of netbook; while there isn't a universally accepted definition of the term, the generally accepted definitions do not preclude the use of hard disks, and the iconic models of the genre such as the Acer Aspire One have mostly had hard-disk versions since the term came into existence. Here's some typical definitions, as you can see they all basically say "small, low powered laptop", none of them mandate an SSD.
I think what the most eloquent AC was trying to say is that predation is entirely part of nature - animals eat other animals all the time - so it makes no sense to worry about it. Those little mealworms are, by being eaten, fulfilling their manifest destiny as part of the chain of life, and you should send them on their way knowing that you have only helped them do what they exist to do in the first place. Possibly the AC's version was more succinct though;).
Press gets bored of over-hyping insignificant malware events, as signs of imminent cyber-apocalypse stubbornly fail to materialise, moves on to something more interesting?
Last time I was bitching about the IWF's lack of transparency here, someone pointed out AAISP as one ISP that doesn't subscribe to the IWF list. Unfortunately if I want more than 2Mbps, I have to use cable, so not an option for me.
FTA: My primary goal is to put as much of your pledge money into what really matters for a light- the LED, the electronics, optics, and the battery.
It seems that the programmability, and thus the open-source nature of said programmability, is really incidental. The thing needs a microcontroller to implement flashing modes etc, and since the guy's a nerd, hey, why not open it up, might get a bit of extra publicity that way. But primarily the guy's trying to make a better flashlight.
To be fair, internet connectivity is far more ubiquitous, and we spend a lot more time (proportionally) using web apps, than in the dial-up 90's. So just because this kind of thing was a bad idea back then, doesn't necessarily mean it will always be a bad idea, and it will probably keep repeating until it's time finally comes. I'd say that time hasn't yet come, but the time of the browser-based primary UI may well come eventually. Probably before the day of Linux on the desktop becoming mainstream.
I ran Omnimo on my Win7 tablet for a while. Ditched it for a number of reasons, but it sure looked exactly like what I want my Windows tablet UI to look like. So I definitely like the look of Windows 8 so far, at least in a tablet context. For desktop use, I'll withhold judgement.
I'd think 6 cups a day is pretty average for many coffee drinkers, not just Americans. I'm in the UK, and certainly in my workplace we have a round of coffee/tea about once an hour, so 6 mugs of coffee a day is pretty typical. There's nothing wrong with using it as a replacement for water, it does the job just fine, and tastes better.
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If you're a Sky TV customer though, their broadband is cheap or even free, depending on the package, so for those people it's probably hard to beat.
Personally I'm on Virgin broadband, and if anyone was offering more than 2Mbps DSL where I live, I'd switch, but right now I don't seem to have an option. My connection used to be good, but something about the way they've implemented their traffic management, or perhaps some other aspect of their network changes over the last year, means that my connection at times is practically useless.
Oops, I replied to the wrong post.
It's spelt "litre" in the United Kingdom.
While many of the comments so far are focussing on the issue of toilets, as does the summary, it's the whole sewage infrastructure that's the issue. In the African cities I've been to, large areas don't have proper underground sewers, and sewage is carried in stinking open gutters at the side of the road; having any kind of toilet doesn't help if it's flushing into those open sewers. TFA talks about supporting construction of pit latrines in slums that lack any form of sanitation, so it seems they are being quite practical about working with the existing infrastructure.
That's the only interesting part though, the rest can be summed up as "Complete asshole behaves like complete asshole". There was nothing technical clever or new about what he did, although he went further than most such incidents I've heard of, but few slashdotters will be at all surprised that that kind of thing is possible. The only surprise is that it doesn't happen more often, more subtly ... or does it?
That would drive me nuts.
FTA: "Distracted driving definitions. Distracted driving immediately brings to
mind cell phones and texting, and perhaps use of other electronic devices.
But there are many more driving distractions: activities like eating, changing
a CD, or talking to other passengers; billboards or other objects outside the
car; even planning the day’s work, rehashing an emotional moment from the
previous night, or just daydreaming. It is useful to begin by defining what
distracted driving means. "
Glad to see this study acknowledges that there are an awful lot of distractions other than cellphones, most of which can't reasonably be banned. It also mentions that there's no evidence that cellphone or texting bans have any effect on accident rate. So focussing all attention on banning cellphone usage is not the solution, or at least not the only solution. Personally thing most likely to distract me is incompetent drivers who don't know which lane they're supposed to be in, when to signal, or when to join a roundabout. Learn to drive, people.
The exception is the few games that also include other DRM.
More and more seem to be ending up in this category recently, sadly.
Well, porn companies are doing this, you can buy DRM-free HD and DVD movie downloads...erm, so I'm told.
That may be the case where you live, but in the UK, wind power depends on subsidies to exist at all. In fact on top of the subsidies, we've been paying wind farms to NOT produce electricity. The trouble is our peak demand for energy is in winter, when we have a large stable high pressure zone over the UK, leading to very cold clear conditions, and that same high pressure zone means no wind. Hence wind farms are almost useless when they're needed most, but producing power when it's not needed. Until economically viable ways of storing energy from wind farms is found, they'll never be economically viable in the UK, and such storage appears to be a long way off at the moment.
"So how do you actually make the money needed to make it viable in the long term?"
There will be plenty of repeat views, I'd think. Any time there's a flood/tsunami/volcanic ash cloud/other large-scale natural phenomenon, their problem is more likely to be keeping up with demand than anything else. Plenty of ad revenue.
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To be clear, the Sandy Bridge chipset has integrated graphics, not the CPU, but you can't have one without the other is the point.
The Intel Sandy Bridge parts (which I assume the GP is referring to) do have integrated graphics, but as the article says, the point here is that the Llano graphics outperformed the Sandy Bridge integrated graphics by 2-4x. Enough to make the difference between entry-level 3D gaming and no 3D gaming.
The article fails to explain what's new here, a major failing since most every slashdotter will have heard of circuit repair pens. These guys apparently used silver nano-particles and hydroxyethyl cellulose to create a flexible conductor, presumably much more so than the circuit repair pens that have been around forever. I must admit I've never tried using a repair pen on something flexible, but I'm guessing it dries pretty rigid.
The Download: PDF Only link on the right hand side of the first linked page (Cornell) gives you a PDF of the same article.
"A nearly year-long study conducted by WDS on 600,000 support calls has found that some phones are more susceptible to hardware faults than other phones."
FTFY. If you take the flamebait out of it, that's all it's saying. Android phones are manufactured by a large number of manufacturers, and some of them are a bit cheap and nasty.
"But were they truly netbooks, with no moving parts?"
That's your own made-up definition of netbook; while there isn't a universally accepted definition of the term, the generally accepted definitions do not preclude the use of hard disks, and the iconic models of the genre such as the Acer Aspire One have mostly had hard-disk versions since the term came into existence. Here's some typical definitions, as you can see they all basically say "small, low powered laptop", none of them mandate an SSD.
I think what the most eloquent AC was trying to say is that predation is entirely part of nature - animals eat other animals all the time - so it makes no sense to worry about it. Those little mealworms are, by being eaten, fulfilling their manifest destiny as part of the chain of life, and you should send them on their way knowing that you have only helped them do what they exist to do in the first place. Possibly the AC's version was more succinct though ;).
Press gets bored of over-hyping insignificant malware events, as signs of imminent cyber-apocalypse stubbornly fail to materialise, moves on to something more interesting?
Last time I was bitching about the IWF's lack of transparency here, someone pointed out AAISP as one ISP that doesn't subscribe to the IWF list. Unfortunately if I want more than 2Mbps, I have to use cable, so not an option for me.
FTA: My primary goal is to put as much of your pledge money into what really matters for a light- the LED, the electronics, optics, and the battery.
It seems that the programmability, and thus the open-source nature of said programmability, is really incidental. The thing needs a microcontroller to implement flashing modes etc, and since the guy's a nerd, hey, why not open it up, might get a bit of extra publicity that way. But primarily the guy's trying to make a better flashlight.
To be fair, internet connectivity is far more ubiquitous, and we spend a lot more time (proportionally) using web apps, than in the dial-up 90's. So just because this kind of thing was a bad idea back then, doesn't necessarily mean it will always be a bad idea, and it will probably keep repeating until it's time finally comes. I'd say that time hasn't yet come, but the time of the browser-based primary UI may well come eventually. Probably before the day of Linux on the desktop becoming mainstream.
I ran Omnimo on my Win7 tablet for a while. Ditched it for a number of reasons, but it sure looked exactly like what I want my Windows tablet UI to look like. So I definitely like the look of Windows 8 so far, at least in a tablet context. For desktop use, I'll withhold judgement.
I'd think 6 cups a day is pretty average for many coffee drinkers, not just Americans. I'm in the UK, and certainly in my workplace we have a round of coffee/tea about once an hour, so 6 mugs of coffee a day is pretty typical. There's nothing wrong with using it as a replacement for water, it does the job just fine, and tastes better.