Yeah, but the efficiency is so low to start with, anyway, that increasing it by 60% may not make much of a difference. Amorphous silicon cells have an efficiency of about 6%. Increase that by 60% and we get... 9.6%! Nothing to write home about.
Sure they should support linux. They give away the player and sell the development kit. The more players are out there (on whatever platform) the more attractive the development kit looks, they more they sell, the more money they make.
I don't think it's going to happen, either, for these reasons:
Literacy is much more widespread now. In the old days, a relatively small portion of the population was literate, so changing the behavior of that small group was easier.
Plus, they had autocratic rulers who could declare a spelling reform and it would be done. English spelling reform now would have to be carried out simultaneously by many democratic governments around the world. What are the chances of that happening?
Just think of all the literature that would have to either be reissued or would become obsolete. Who's going to pick up the tab for that?
I don't know how it is now, but back in the '70s when I was living in India, it was impossible for ordinary people to buy accurate maps of the country -- they all were altered slightly to thwart Chinese spies from using them for military purposes.
Browsers are easily the most common way of accessing network resources of all kinds. Virtually all ecommerce, business, data access, etc, goes through a browser.
Damn this is true! I went to my insurance agent the other day, and he uses IE to access all my account information that is stored on the headquarters's server. Made me want to reconsider my choice of insurance companies.
Rottentomatoes has an ``Episode III Tomatometer Watch'' going on on its home page http://www.rottentomatoes.com/. It's at 92% now, with 24 reviews in. Not too shabby.
The Old Testament, especially the The Law or pentateuch, are considered to be of value only for historical reasons: they applied only to prepare the Chosen people for the coming of Christ. So the story, for example, of Abraham and creation were preperations for the coming of Christ. This is why, for example, even devout Christians do not keep kosher while devout Jews do: the period of preperation and sacrifice ended when Christ was recognized as the saviour.
Just another example of fundamentalists picking and choosing what they want from the Bible and rejecting other things. Take the Ten Commandments: Those are in Exodus, the 2nd book of the Torah. Just ``historical interest''? How about the prohibition against man lying with another man? That's in Leviticus (the 3rd book). (BTW, nowhere does it prohibit woman from lying down with woman. I guess that means it's ok to be lesbian.) Yet, fundamentalists frequently cite the biblical prohibition to justify their anti-homosexual rants. Hypocrites! Bashibazooks!
If he sent out 10 million spams a day for a year, assuming he worked 200 days a year, that would only be about 0.14 seconds of time in the can for each spam. That's nothing!
Many posters have said, ``Everything is cooler in Japan.'' This is bullshit. The rural areas of Japan, where about one-third of the people live, are so different from the cites; you'd think it was a third-world country.
My wife's family, who live about 70 miles north of Tokyo, built a new house a few years ago. The new house has a toilet with a heated seat (necessary because, since there's no central heating nearly anywhere, including in the cities, your butt would freeze to the seat in the winter), a bidet and a fan to dry you after you use the bidet. Before that, all they had was a hole in the floor. The wastes would drop into a tank below the house and every few weeks a guy would come by with the ``vaccuum car'' to suck out the contents. He would sell it farmers who would use it on their fields. Stinky! They now have a flush toilet and a septic system, but most of their neighbors still have the latrine-style toilet.
My brother-in-law just got DSL at their house this year. Not exactly ``cool.''
Check out hosting from http://www.1and1.com/. Linux hosting is $4.99 a month; MS Win hosting with the same features is $6.99 a month. I wrote to 1and1 and asked them why Windows-based hosting was more expensive. I was told that in terms of licensing and maintainence costs, Linux is definitely cheaper.
I've been waiting for the price of the 6000 to drop, and reading this I got my hopes way up, only to have them dashed to smithereens when I found the price on Amazon to be $499, not $399.
I don't mind downloading quicktime files and playing them with mplayer in Linux, but lots of the time they require a browser plugin. To see the clip in that case you have to view the source, find the reference to the.mov file, and wget it. Sometimes you can't even do that. Why should it be such a pain?
My wife, who is Japanese, pointed out a VERY good use of chopsticks: for picking dropped objects like screws from the inside of computer cases (when your hand won't fit inside). --
IM is like our in-house intercom. For example, I'm at work in my office in the basement and the phone rings. It's for my 12 year-old son (way more often than not), who's in his room on the 2nd floor. Rather than yelling up the laundry chute for him to pick up the phone, I just IM him.
The fact that the code was easily and trivially replaced means that even in the very unlikely case that SCO won the suit, the damages awarded would be close to $0.
What!? I don't believe it. I went out with her in college and, while I can't guarantee she didn't do porn (I wasn't with her all the time), I seriously doubt it. She always was a serious woman. Sure you're not mixing her up with Tracey Ullman?
J-OS works on old Palms, but not anything with enough memory to be useful as a dictionary/learning tool.
That's the old J-OS. The new J-OS V works with new palms very well. I've got Jim Breen's EJE dictionary and a radical-based kanji dictionary (radic) on my Palm M515 under J-OS V. They work very well. J-OS V permits Japanese input and display in any application. The problems with J-OS V are that it takes 1MB RAM (separate from the fonts) and it costs $55 from palmgear
Who indeed. I have read several of Murakami's books in Japanese, and happened to pick up a translation of Norwegian Wood by (I think) Alfred Birnbaum published by Kodansha, and was horrified! It was like a completely different book. The entire tone and feeling were different. The translation was brash and vulgar, where the original was dark and subtle. I have seen some more recent translations by (I think) Jay Rubin, and those were much better. My advice: Stay away from the Birnbaum translations.
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Hey, I remember the site with the duckpins. How come my ID isn't lower?
The old joke is that the definition of a libertarian is republican who doesn't believe in God. I wish I know who came up with this first.
Yeah, but the efficiency is so low to start with, anyway, that increasing it by 60% may not make much of a difference. Amorphous silicon cells have an efficiency of about 6%. Increase that by 60% and we get ... 9.6%! Nothing to write home about.
There's a great image of the first shot taking with the telescope here
Sure they should support linux. They give away the player and sell the development kit. The more players are out there (on whatever platform) the more attractive the development kit looks, they more they sell, the more money they make.
I was surprised to see the Powered by Sun, too. Especially since Netcraft reports all ebay machines running MS Windows Server. Look here.
I guess this one will be banned in Tennesee.
I don't know how it is now, but back in the '70s when I was living in India, it was impossible for ordinary people to buy accurate maps of the country -- they all were altered slightly to thwart Chinese spies from using them for military purposes.
And no built-in network interface (ethernet or wifi) on an internet appliance?
*plonk*^2
Browsers are easily the most common way of accessing network resources of all kinds. Virtually all ecommerce, business, data access, etc, goes through a browser.
Damn this is true! I went to my insurance agent the other day, and he uses IE to access all my account information that is stored on the headquarters's server. Made me want to reconsider my choice of insurance companies.
Rottentomatoes has an ``Episode III Tomatometer Watch'' going on on its home page http://www.rottentomatoes.com/. It's at 92% now, with 24 reviews in. Not too shabby.
The Old Testament, especially the The Law or pentateuch, are considered to be of value only for historical reasons: they applied only to prepare the Chosen people for the coming of Christ. So the story, for example, of Abraham and creation were preperations for the coming of Christ. This is why, for example, even devout Christians do not keep kosher while devout Jews do: the period of preperation and sacrifice ended when Christ was recognized as the saviour.
Just another example of fundamentalists picking and choosing what they want from the Bible and rejecting other things. Take the Ten Commandments: Those are in Exodus, the 2nd book of the Torah. Just ``historical interest''? How about the prohibition against man lying with another man? That's in Leviticus (the 3rd book). (BTW, nowhere does it prohibit woman from lying down with woman. I guess that means it's ok to be lesbian.) Yet, fundamentalists frequently cite the biblical prohibition to justify their anti-homosexual rants. Hypocrites! Bashibazooks!
If he sent out 10 million spams a day for a year, assuming he worked 200 days a year, that would only be about 0.14 seconds of time in the can for each spam. That's nothing!
Many posters have said, ``Everything is cooler in Japan.'' This is bullshit. The rural areas of Japan, where about one-third of the people live, are so different from the cites; you'd think it was a third-world country.
My wife's family, who live about 70 miles north of Tokyo, built a new house a few years ago. The new house has a toilet with a heated seat (necessary because, since there's no central heating nearly anywhere, including in the cities, your butt would freeze to the seat in the winter), a bidet and a fan to dry you after you use the bidet. Before that, all they had was a hole in the floor. The wastes would drop into a tank below the house and every few weeks a guy would come by with the ``vaccuum car'' to suck out the contents. He would sell it farmers who would use it on their fields. Stinky! They now have a flush toilet and a septic system, but most of their neighbors still have the latrine-style toilet.
My brother-in-law just got DSL at their house this year. Not exactly ``cool.''
Check out hosting from http://www.1and1.com/. Linux hosting is $4.99 a month; MS Win hosting with the same features is $6.99 a month. I wrote to 1and1 and asked them why Windows-based hosting was more expensive. I was told that in terms of licensing and maintainence costs, Linux is definitely cheaper.
How do you respond to that, Ballmer?
I've been waiting for the price of the 6000 to drop, and reading this I got my hopes way up, only to have them dashed to smithereens when I found the price on Amazon to be $499, not $399.
Dang!
I don't mind downloading quicktime files and playing them with mplayer in Linux, but lots of the time they require a browser plugin. To see the clip in that case you have to view the source, find the reference to the .mov file, and wget it. Sometimes you can't even do that. Why should it be such a pain?
My wife, who is Japanese, pointed out a VERY good use of chopsticks: for picking dropped objects like screws from the inside of computer cases (when your hand won't fit inside).
--
IM is like our in-house intercom. For example, I'm at work in my office in the basement and the phone rings. It's for my 12 year-old son (way more often than not), who's in his room on the 2nd floor. Rather than yelling up the laundry chute for him to pick up the phone, I just IM him.
The fact that the code was easily and trivially replaced means that even in the very unlikely case that SCO won the suit, the damages awarded would be close to $0.
I think YOU are confusing YOURSELF with someone who could GET A DATE.
Ellen, now I need *you* to defend *my* honor!
What!? I don't believe it. I went out with her in college and, while I can't guarantee she didn't do porn (I wasn't with her all the time), I seriously doubt it. She always was a serious woman. Sure you're not mixing her up with Tracey Ullman?
J-OS works on old Palms, but not anything with enough memory to be useful as a dictionary/learning tool.
That's the old J-OS. The new J-OS V works with new palms very well. I've got Jim Breen's EJE dictionary and a radical-based kanji dictionary (radic) on my Palm M515 under J-OS V. They work very well. J-OS V permits Japanese input and display in any application. The problems with J-OS V are that it takes 1MB RAM (separate from the fonts) and it costs $55 from palmgear
Who indeed. I have read several of Murakami's books in Japanese, and happened to pick up a translation of Norwegian Wood by (I think) Alfred Birnbaum published by Kodansha, and was horrified! It was like a completely different book. The entire tone and feeling were different. The translation was brash and vulgar, where the original was dark and subtle. I have seen some more recent translations by (I think) Jay Rubin, and those were much better. My advice: Stay away from the Birnbaum translations.