but it's damn similar to this article from a couple days ago.
Re:Interesting, but is it really Practical
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The key word in the article is "minor". This would work for small abrasions, but would it really be useful? Think of all the accidents in space we have had so far. None of them would have been prevented by this technology.
We haven't done a lot of long duration spaceflight yet. As the larger-than-expected particles collected by the Stardust mission show, cumulative minor damage could be a major issue for flights lasting years, so I'd say yes, it will be useful.
The Browncoats effort is already over by the looks of things, lasting a mere 36hrs, so that item is already out of date. Shame, I still hope someone will find a way to bring Firefly back. From the site:
No more donations are being taken at this time! We are in the process of returning all donations received. We came up against insurmountable odds and legal issues launching our fund-raising drive. firefly@browncoatsriseagain.com
If the money is buring a hole in your pocket, please buy a DVD. Firely and Serenity sales at this time will further our cause. We will continue the fight to re-light Firefly using other methods. Thank you for you support in our first 36 hours of activity.
You can also see the Daleks in porn movie "Abducted By The Daleks", I kid you not. The sun has the details. It's really quite good.. so I hear;).
Re:"Benefit"?
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Well, cost, according to TFA. It's not strictly rationing, since the consumers choose when to curtail their energy use. But as usual I suspect the energy companies will benefit more than the consumers, and since they control the other important parameter, energy price, I guess it could indeed be seen as a sort of rationing.
Don't know why this is modded troll. It may not be hugely insightful, but it's a prefectly reasonable thing to point out. I was thinking the same thing.
doesnt even look like there is anywhere you can go to make a cheapscanner
Dunno, improving the software to match up successive images better should be prefectly possible, it's hard to say exactly how good a result could be achieved, but I'd say a lot better than the posted image. You could also hack in multiple coloured LEDs, and thus possibly make a colour scanner. Probably never actually be useful though, hard to say.
While this story is a legitimate cue for a rant about charger proliferation, I don't think "not another charging option" is really a legitimate criticism of this product. For those who have bluetooth-enabled laptops and an empty PC card slot, this gives you charging and convenient storage of the mouse in one hit.
If you don't have those things, it's probably not for you, but if you do, it's not requiring you to carry an extra charger, it's definitely more compact and convenient than regular external mouse of any sort. I want one.
I tried Opera 8.5 for about a week, and while versus Firefox without extensions there would be no contest, there were just too many things I could not acheive in Opera, that Firefox extensions provide. Opera was fast and stable though.
It's a unfortunate that extensions are also a bit of a weak point for Firefox. It would be nice if the APIs for extensions were made robust enough that it was harder for extensions to break the browser, and I still haven't had a problem free browser upgrade without doing a clean reinstall.
It's not a scientific theory, therefore it doesn't belong in a science class, any more than teaching that babies are delivered by storks. Get some papers in peer-reviewed science journals showing that "intelligent design" is a valid science theory, and then they might have a case. Of course, that will never happen.
Because the US has had plenty of failures as well as successes landing probes on mars, and Beagle 2 was completed long before Spirit and Opportunity were landed on Mars, so there was no way to know they were going to be a success.
Tractors and other farm machinery can run on biodiesel themselves, and fertilisers don't need to be petroleum based. Yes, one needs to be aware of those things in order to ensure that the whole process is indeed carbon neutral, but it's not hard to do, it may add a little to the cost.
The real question is, when you factor in all the costs associated with hydrogen - new infrastructure, new vehicles, renewable energy sources to manufacture the hydrogen (without which it is pointless), is there any way hydrogen can be cheaper than biodiesel?
My laptop has no middle button, so that's no use for me. Luckily the "FLST" (Focus Last Selected Tab) and "Tab X" extensions give those two functionalities, and both work (in RC3 at least).
Last time this story came around, it wasn't clear to me that this guy did not know his researchers had donated their eggs. If he'd been a cold bastard and put all the blame on the researchers in question as soon as he found out, he'd probably have got away with it. Instead he tried to protect them, and this is what he gets for it.
Ah well, no good deed goes unpunished, as the saying goes.
I'd have thought latency would be an issue at any distance from earth orbit, but I ain't read the article either, so maybe that's dealt with somehow. Anyway, I can see uses for such a thing on earth, as well as in orbit.
Slashdot Mirror
You paid $200 for the Windows source? Dude, you got ripped off!
but it's damn similar to this article from a couple days ago.
The key word in the article is "minor". This would work for small abrasions, but would it really be useful? Think of all the accidents in space we have had so far. None of them would have been prevented by this technology.
We haven't done a lot of long duration spaceflight yet. As the larger-than-expected particles collected by the Stardust mission show, cumulative minor damage could be a major issue for flights lasting years, so I'd say yes, it will be useful.
The Browncoats effort is already over by the looks of things, lasting a mere 36hrs, so that item is already out of date. Shame, I still hope someone will find a way to bring Firefly back. From the site:
No more donations are being taken at this time!
We are in the process of returning all donations received. We came up against insurmountable odds and legal issues launching our fund-raising drive. firefly@browncoatsriseagain.com
If the money is buring a hole in your pocket, please buy a DVD. Firely and Serenity sales at this time will further our cause. We will continue the fight to re-light Firefly using other methods. Thank you for you support in our first 36 hours of activity.
Memo from your PHB
We need to have a meeting to discuss these findings!
You can also see the Daleks in porn movie "Abducted By The Daleks", I kid you not. The sun has the details. It's really quite good .. so I hear ;).
Well, cost, according to TFA. It's not strictly rationing, since the consumers choose when to curtail their energy use. But as usual I suspect the energy companies will benefit more than the consumers, and since they control the other important parameter, energy price, I guess it could indeed be seen as a sort of rationing.
Fir gods sake, all these tree puns, I wish yew wood quit it! It's time to spruce up your repertoir of jokes, I think.
Don't know why this is modded troll. It may not be hugely insightful, but it's a prefectly reasonable thing to point out. I was thinking the same thing.
doesnt even look like there is anywhere you can go to make a cheapscanner
Dunno, improving the software to match up successive images better should be prefectly possible, it's hard to say exactly how good a result could be achieved, but I'd say a lot better than the posted image. You could also hack in multiple coloured LEDs, and thus possibly make a colour scanner. Probably never actually be useful though, hard to say.
While this story is a legitimate cue for a rant about charger proliferation, I don't think "not another charging option" is really a legitimate criticism of this product. For those who have bluetooth-enabled laptops and an empty PC card slot, this gives you charging and convenient storage of the mouse in one hit.
If you don't have those things, it's probably not for you, but if you do, it's not requiring you to carry an extra charger, it's definitely more compact and convenient than regular external mouse of any sort. I want one.
What is so good about Firefox?
Extensions.
I tried Opera 8.5 for about a week, and while versus Firefox without extensions there would be no contest, there were just too many things I could not acheive in Opera, that Firefox extensions provide. Opera was fast and stable though.
It's a unfortunate that extensions are also a bit of a weak point for Firefox. It would be nice if the APIs for extensions were made robust enough that it was harder for extensions to break the browser, and I still haven't had a problem free browser upgrade without doing a clean reinstall.
The main danger of such explosions is the static and toxic moondust, which is thrown around.
Danger to whom exactly? Should I be hitting the bunker to dodge that toxic moondust?
Can they by law do that?
They are the law. (to paraphrase Judge Dredd)
It's not a scientific theory, therefore it doesn't belong in a science class, any more than teaching that babies are delivered by storks. Get some papers in peer-reviewed science journals showing that "intelligent design" is a valid science theory, and then they might have a case. Of course, that will never happen.
Because the US has had plenty of failures as well as successes landing probes on mars, and Beagle 2 was completed long before Spirit and Opportunity were landed on Mars, so there was no way to know they were going to be a success.
Yeah, it' so nice of him to share a tiny fraction of the vast wealth he gained by using proven illegal practices to crush Microsofts competitors.
Time to snap up some cheap ethiopian desert land. Will be valuable beachfront holiday developments in a few hundred millenia or so.
I hope it's a roaring success.
Tractors and other farm machinery can run on biodiesel themselves, and fertilisers don't need to be petroleum based. Yes, one needs to be aware of those things in order to ensure that the whole process is indeed carbon neutral, but it's not hard to do, it may add a little to the cost.
The real question is, when you factor in all the costs associated with hydrogen - new infrastructure, new vehicles, renewable energy sources to manufacture the hydrogen (without which it is pointless), is there any way hydrogen can be cheaper than biodiesel?
Why is it a "patch"? It's completely carbon neutral and sustainable.
My laptop has no middle button, so that's no use for me. Luckily the "FLST" (Focus Last Selected Tab) and "Tab X" extensions give those two functionalities, and both work (in RC3 at least).
Last time this story came around, it wasn't clear to me that this guy did not know his researchers had donated their eggs. If he'd been a cold bastard and put all the blame on the researchers in question as soon as he found out, he'd probably have got away with it. Instead he tried to protect them, and this is what he gets for it.
Ah well, no good deed goes unpunished, as the saying goes.
Hubris.
And someone needs to get over there and mod that statue pronto.
I'd have thought latency would be an issue at any distance from earth orbit, but I ain't read the article either, so maybe that's dealt with somehow. Anyway, I can see uses for such a thing on earth, as well as in orbit.