I did a bit of research after posting, and whole home backup generators are cheaper than I thought. You can get a multi-fuel (eg, propane/natural gas) whole home backup generator with automatic switchover for $3,000-$5,000 depending on the power rating. So yes, that's definitely a way to go (although you do have to include yearly maintenance costs). Definitely cheaper in a retrofit scenario, however if I were designing a home from scratch, I'd still put in a "warm room".
Are you suggesting that the 60k/yr Americans working at the California office are only getting H1-B or L1-B visa level salaries? No. This has nothing to do with violating visa pay rates. This has to do with discrimination: paying someone less than someone else for the same work simply because of the color of their skin. It also has to do with being spiteful, spoiled brats: to whit, firing an employee for pointing out illegal or unethical behaviour.
Having just gone through a multi-day power failure due to an ice storm (Toronto), I suggest that you put a little thought into what you might need if you had a long term power outage. You don't say where you are, but in a lot of places, it can get awfully cold without power. If you live in a winter climate, I suggest that you have a "warm room"; a room within the house where even the interior walls are insulated. That room should have a properly vented and working fireplace or wood stove, and/or gas heating, and be large enough for the entire family to sack out in sleeping bags. Having a backup generator is also a good idea. Multiple exits on different sides of the house are a good idea, in case your front door gets a two inch thick coating of ice on it, and you can't get out.
I'm not saying be a prepper, but a few precautions while the house is in the planning stages could save your life, or at least make a tough situation more tolerable.
When I read the headline, I assumed Electronic Arts was producing a fully immersive environment console in which to play SIM City. After all, what else could EA Caves: SimCity Offline Mode Coming mean?
They should fork the BSD kernel, port the Windows 7 UI to it with the necessary upgrades, and write a Win32 emulation/compatibility mode for legacy apps.
If someone were to release this right now, especially if it was responsive to all of the active directory/GPO management stuff, then Microsoft might lose their grip on corporate desktops; especially if they threw in a few extras like automatic document versioning and backup utilities, or a VMS style file system.
Nemesis fits if you remember Rule 2 about Star Trek Movies: Every fifth one sucks, which explains why ST5 sucked worse than a Hoover inside a black hole. So far, the only good thing about the new Star Trek movies is Dr McCoy.
Suffocation? How? These things aren't air-tight, and they only remain inflated for a few seconds. Besides, if you read further, I was suggesting having the nose and cheek areas protected. ie, something more like this, but scaled for a person's head. The way it's designed now, it looks like post inflation esthetics played more of a role than preventing head trauma.
It's really a pity we can't coat the paper helmets in some sort of spray on, or shrink wrapped plastic, or maybe dip them in paint, or something, because these paper helmets seem like such a good idea. Also, it's too bad we can't corrugate plastic.
Looking at the videos, I don't see why they don't airbag the whole head. What do you need to see when you're crashing? And even if you do need to see, why not extend nose and cheek pieces all the way around? Or just make a section of the airbag with clear plastic instead of white.
I was inquiring about the "non-amusement park" side of the industry.
I was referring to the "non-amusement park" side of the industry; specifically SpaceX and others of that ilk, who will be ferrying people back and forth to the ISS for work. Space Adventures is a reseller, and MirCorp closed a decade ago, so they don't count.
There are aerospace companies working on SSTs, but the main reason there isn't a lot of suborbital point to point is that you need to have a lot of horizontal velocity to get anywhere, and that horizontal velocity needs to be nullified. The level of horizontal velocity is close, like 80%+, to orbital velocity. Think about it. Which is harder, a hop across lake Michigan, or a hop across the Pacific? A trip to space, is a simple hundred km up. You only need fuel to accelerate upwards. Gravity slows you down to a stop, and the return trip is nowhere near orbital velocities, so you don't even need heat shields. On the other hand, a transcontinental trip requires a horizontal acceleration, and deceleration. Since you're going at 80ish percent of orbital velocities, you're going to need a lot more fuel and reentry will require heat shields (unless you want to do a retro-burn, in which case you have to carry even more fuel.
Of course, that isn't to say people aren't working on it, but it will be a long, long while before it is commercially viable.
Apparently, it already does. 'It works just like a regular toothbrush,' says Renee Blodgett. 'The only difference is that all the data is stored on your phone so you can see how you're brushing.'
So these new toothbrushes store the data on your phone instead of wherever they stored it before.
If they REALLY want us to see how we're brushing, they should reformulate toothpaste so that it colors the food particles - like those tablets they gave you back in primary school.
If Ford knows people are committing crimes, aren't they legally required to report it, otherwise they become an accessory..?
You're trying to use logic in the realm of Law. That doesn't work. Further, you're trying to extrapolate laws to corporations (and government protected organizations at that). You're setting yourself up for a fail.
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'. Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick, But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide. We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point. We go 'round every two hundred million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Slashdot Mirror
Seems unlikely, unless it's your oven light...
Although CFLs technically will work in an Easy Bake Oven, they really need incandescents.
I did a bit of research after posting, and whole home backup generators are cheaper than I thought. You can get a multi-fuel (eg, propane/natural gas) whole home backup generator with automatic switchover for $3,000-$5,000 depending on the power rating. So yes, that's definitely a way to go (although you do have to include yearly maintenance costs). Definitely cheaper in a retrofit scenario, however if I were designing a home from scratch, I'd still put in a "warm room".
Are you suggesting that the 60k/yr Americans working at the California office are only getting H1-B or L1-B visa level salaries? No. This has nothing to do with violating visa pay rates. This has to do with discrimination: paying someone less than someone else for the same work simply because of the color of their skin. It also has to do with being spiteful, spoiled brats: to whit, firing an employee for pointing out illegal or unethical behaviour.
Having just gone through a multi-day power failure due to an ice storm (Toronto), I suggest that you put a little thought into what you might need if you had a long term power outage. You don't say where you are, but in a lot of places, it can get awfully cold without power. If you live in a winter climate, I suggest that you have a "warm room"; a room within the house where even the interior walls are insulated. That room should have a properly vented and working fireplace or wood stove, and/or gas heating, and be large enough for the entire family to sack out in sleeping bags. Having a backup generator is also a good idea. Multiple exits on different sides of the house are a good idea, in case your front door gets a two inch thick coating of ice on it, and you can't get out.
I'm not saying be a prepper, but a few precautions while the house is in the planning stages could save your life, or at least make a tough situation more tolerable.
When I read the headline, I assumed Electronic Arts was producing a fully immersive environment console in which to play SIM City. After all, what else could EA Caves: SimCity Offline Mode Coming mean?
They should fork the BSD kernel, port the Windows 7 UI to it with the necessary upgrades, and write a Win32 emulation/compatibility mode for legacy apps.
If someone were to release this right now, especially if it was responsive to all of the active directory/GPO management stuff, then Microsoft might lose their grip on corporate desktops; especially if they threw in a few extras like automatic document versioning and backup utilities, or a VMS style file system.
I don't use it anyway I just use search to find the program.
That's all nice and good... if you can find the search function.
Nemesis fits if you remember Rule 2 about Star Trek Movies: Every fifth one sucks, which explains why ST5 sucked worse than a Hoover inside a black hole. So far, the only good thing about the new Star Trek movies is Dr McCoy.
Suffocation? How? These things aren't air-tight, and they only remain inflated for a few seconds. Besides, if you read further, I was suggesting having the nose and cheek areas protected. ie, something more like this, but scaled for a person's head. The way it's designed now, it looks like post inflation esthetics played more of a role than preventing head trauma.
Because people like breathing?
You mean all those people in full face motorcycle helmets are suffocating to death?
Not only is G+ not forced upon you, at all,
You don't have an Android phone, do you?
It's really a pity we can't coat the paper helmets in some sort of spray on, or shrink wrapped plastic, or maybe dip them in paint, or something, because these paper helmets seem like such a good idea. Also, it's too bad we can't corrugate plastic.
Why not extend the cheek guards as well (think Kenny from South Park)? Or why bother with an open face area at all?
That looks pretty cool but what happens if you fall face first?
http://www.hovding.com/content/images/startpage/03_what_is_hovding/girl-helmet.jpg
Looking at the videos, I don't see why they don't airbag the whole head. What do you need to see when you're crashing? And even if you do need to see, why not extend nose and cheek pieces all the way around? Or just make a section of the airbag with clear plastic instead of white.
It's also freaking expensive.
So are car airbags, but you don't notice the expense because it's hidden in the $30,000 purchase price of the car.
So... we should increase the price of bicycles?
I was inquiring about the "non-amusement park" side of the industry.
I was referring to the "non-amusement park" side of the industry; specifically SpaceX and others of that ilk, who will be ferrying people back and forth to the ISS for work. Space Adventures is a reseller, and MirCorp closed a decade ago, so they don't count.
There are aerospace companies working on SSTs, but the main reason there isn't a lot of suborbital point to point is that you need to have a lot of horizontal velocity to get anywhere, and that horizontal velocity needs to be nullified. The level of horizontal velocity is close, like 80%+, to orbital velocity. Think about it. Which is harder, a hop across lake Michigan, or a hop across the Pacific? A trip to space, is a simple hundred km up. You only need fuel to accelerate upwards. Gravity slows you down to a stop, and the return trip is nowhere near orbital velocities, so you don't even need heat shields. On the other hand, a transcontinental trip requires a horizontal acceleration, and deceleration. Since you're going at 80ish percent of orbital velocities, you're going to need a lot more fuel and reentry will require heat shields (unless you want to do a retro-burn, in which case you have to carry even more fuel.
Of course, that isn't to say people aren't working on it, but it will be a long, long while before it is commercially viable.
Are any of these ventures actually transporting anyone anywhere other than straight up and straight back down to the same spot?
A few of them are planning to bring humans from the ground to the ISS and back. Does that count?
No thanks, we like being uninformed here.
What did you say that for? I was perfectly happy not knowing.
my toothbrush is going bug too?
Apparently, it already does. 'It works just like a regular toothbrush,' says Renee Blodgett. 'The only difference is that all the data is stored on your phone so you can see how you're brushing.'
So these new toothbrushes store the data on your phone instead of wherever they stored it before.
If they REALLY want us to see how we're brushing, they should reformulate toothpaste so that it colors the food particles - like those tablets they gave you back in primary school.
If Ford knows people are committing crimes, aren't they legally required to report it, otherwise they become an accessory..?
You're trying to use logic in the realm of Law. That doesn't work. Further, you're trying to extrapolate laws to corporations (and government protected organizations at that). You're setting yourself up for a fail.
Of course they don't track the customer. What they track is the vehicle,,, and the vehicle has no rights.
Everybody sing!
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
You're missing the point. These are stars moving at at abnormal speeds and can't be explained by any phenomenon we have observed before.
Every gravity simulation I've ever run has had a few objects flung off at high speed. It doesn't take a lot.
Remember, the early bird that hesitates gets wormed.
Who else was thinking "nougat"?
/me, but I prefer cherry blossoms, or brandy beans.