A meter that shows somewhat instantaneous and cumulative power use for your whole house. And it's wireless.
http://www.bluelineinnovations.com/
My electric company (Green Mountain Power, Vermont, US) even subsidizes the purchase of them. I think mine cost $ 40 vs. $ 110 retail.
Also annoying: people who send an AYT IM, then proceed to spend a minute or two typing a long IM, instead of just sending me an email in the first place, thereby interrupting me twice.
There are definitely things worse than email distraction.
LED lighting is already cost effective in certain situations. I priced a cable-hung low-voltage lighting system using LED-based MR-16 socket bulbs vs. 12 volt halogen incandescent and the system pays back in less than a year in electricity savings. That doesn't even count the significantly smaller number of bulb changes that are required.
If you have a large number of low wattage/low voltage light sources, CFL is not viable, but LED is. The power requirements are so much lower that smaller transformers can be spec'd, you can string piles more of them on a circuit, saving even more money.
This sounds pretty much like IDSL. The problem has never been technological - the problem is getting your telephone company to implement it at a price that's reasonable.
Instead of breaking up the low frequencies into two 64 Kbit/sec ISDN BRI channels and one 16 Kbits/sec D channel for signaling, IDSL just uses all 144 Kbits/sec (symmetric) for data. The suggestion is asymmetric ISDN based broadband, but that's a minor difference. ISDN goes much longer distances than ADSL or SDSL due to the lower frequencies.
In the early 1990s I had ISDN and it worked fine, except the phone company charged $ 250 a month for unlimited 128 Kbits/sec. Great technology (at the time), but insane pricing.
The guy made $ 1,050 per day for about 95 days over 15 months to make about $ 100,000. Software developers probably made more than that in 15 months, but they had to work about 325 days. I'm feeling no sympathy.
On the contrary, I can't imagine who wouldn't use real money converted into Linden $ in SL.
People will actually do "work" in SL to earn L$. Most people make between US$0.50 and US$1.00 per hour.
Why would you do that? Just get a real job and convert a few bucks so you can buy a new slutty dress or furry suit in SL and be done with it already.
Unless JetBlue/LiveTV acquired another license, they're seriously bandwidth limited. In 2006 they got a license to use a 1 MHz slice in the 841 to 851 MHz spectruum. Increasing the number of ground stations and using directional antennas helps, but we're definitely not talking anywhere near broadband speeds if they're still using that spectrum (which used to be used by GTE Airfone).
Who needs that bloated Excel program when you can still use the VisiCalc spreadsheet?
It's missing a few features of "modern" spreadsheets, but at 26.9 Kbytes (for the version that runs in a DOS command prompt), there probably isn't anything smaller.
Great idea! It seems to me that the
iRobot Create
would be a good base for making something like this. It has all of the sensors for stopping when running into things and not falling down stairs. It might even still have the sensors and logic to find its home charging base by itself, eliminating the need to have people in the office remember to charge it nightly.
There's even the PackBot model for dealing with people who have really, really messy offices, but that's probably out of my price range.
iRobot, maker of friendly home robotic vacuum cleaners, also makes a variety of ground-based robots for the military. The PackBot is already used in Iraq for reconnaissance and IED disposal.
Huge amounts of power and heat!
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Growing stuff inside with a high pressure sodium or metal hallide lamp requires about 1000 watts of lighting for a 8' x 8' area (64 sq. ft).
Going from one of the earlier postings of the building looking like it's about 100 feet in diameter, that's 7,850 sq. ft. per story, or 123 kilowatts per story. If the building is 30 stories tall, we're talking 3.6 megawatts just to run the lights!
You probably won't have to heat the building, ever, but the air conditioning bill in the summer time would be astronomical.
Ignoring that whole air conditioning thing, if you were able to get 80 watts per square meter 8 hours a day from solar cells (you wouldn't in NY, but even if you could), you'd need... 17 acres of land covered with solar cells to power the lights!
On my MacBook, which should have a 6-bit display, the left and right squares look quite different to me.
I believe that's a good indication that the time-based "dithering" used on the MacBook is not nearly as bad as space-based dithering, at least for people who are unable to see flicker significantly above 60 Hz.
The distance-to-the-next-town and speed limit signs within 10 km of Montpelier, Vermont on I-89 are listed in km and km/h. It doesn't seem to have caused a collapse of society or an epidemic of people driving 105 MPH on that section of road, so perhaps Americans can figure out that sort of thing after all.
According to AssetMetrix, as of June 2005 half of all corporate PCs were still running Windows 2000. Considering XP was released in October 2001, I don't find it at all surprising that businesses haven't jumped on installing Vista yet.
Though with Windows 2000 in extended support phase since June of this year, there are probably a number of larger corporations that skipped Windows XP and plan to go from 2000 to Vista.
In my little town in Vermont there was no line to vote because there were probably 20 completely private booths and 40 semi-private counter spots in which to fill in the little bubbles on the optical scan card with permanent marker.
All other issues aside, there is no possible way we could afford anywhere near that many touch-screen machines. Even barring technical problems this is bound to cause a bottleneck as people ponder their vote.
Google Answers were completed by theoretically screened researchers and you had to pay to get an answer.
Yahoo Answers are completed by random people who have enough time to sit around and answer what appears to me to be a lot of really stupid questions that people should have been able to figure the answers to by themselves.
Apparently people prefer a free answer of questionable accuracy to having to pay for an answer.
An original IBM PC weighed 28 pounds with two floppy disk drives. A cell phone (err... mobile?) with a heavy gauge steel case would probably be pretty durable, but I wouldn't want to carry one around.
The text in Google's 10-Q looks like the standard sort of thing companies always put in their 10-Q: We've been sued; we may get sued again. The same text (minus the YouTube sentence of course) appeared a year earlier.
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From the diagram, it looks like the unit is roughly half full of ballast water. If it's 10m in diameter and 20m long, that's 785 m^2 or 207,375 US gallons!
Assuming we stick this in a balmy tropical island with 70F water (21C), we'd need to raise 752,510 kg of water 79C which is 59 million kilocalories or 248 million kilojoules. That's 69,000 kilowatt hours or 235,808,450 BTU. This probably not unreasonable if you really only need to do it once a month, but it's not an insignificant amount of energy, either.
FTA: "What if it wasn't a bank subnet that went offline because of a faulty card in the router? What if it were an air-traffic control network instead?" van de Gohm asks. "This is no different than counterfeit medicine in the pharmaceutical industry. And it's potentially just as life-threatening."
If the air traffic control system can go down because of a single faulty card in a router, fake or not, I'm thinking I want to avoid planes, and look up a lot more than I do now.
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A meter that shows somewhat instantaneous and cumulative power use for your whole house. And it's wireless. http://www.bluelineinnovations.com/ My electric company (Green Mountain Power, Vermont, US) even subsidizes the purchase of them. I think mine cost $ 40 vs. $ 110 retail.
You're mixing your contractions and possessives, so maybe you could call it even?
Poaching the dumb employees from your competitor is probably not the most sound business plan, either.
There are definitely things worse than email distraction.
How hard up for money do you need to be to port GTK+ 2.x to OS/2 for $ 30?
LED lighting is already cost effective in certain situations. I priced a cable-hung low-voltage lighting system using LED-based MR-16 socket bulbs vs. 12 volt halogen incandescent and the system pays back in less than a year in electricity savings. That doesn't even count the significantly smaller number of bulb changes that are required.
If you have a large number of low wattage/low voltage light sources, CFL is not viable, but LED is. The power requirements are so much lower that smaller transformers can be spec'd, you can string piles more of them on a circuit, saving even more money.
There are some neat bulbs available at http://www.theledlight.com.
This sounds pretty much like IDSL. The problem has never been technological - the problem is getting your telephone company to implement it at a price that's reasonable. Instead of breaking up the low frequencies into two 64 Kbit/sec ISDN BRI channels and one 16 Kbits/sec D channel for signaling, IDSL just uses all 144 Kbits/sec (symmetric) for data. The suggestion is asymmetric ISDN based broadband, but that's a minor difference. ISDN goes much longer distances than ADSL or SDSL due to the lower frequencies. In the early 1990s I had ISDN and it worked fine, except the phone company charged $ 250 a month for unlimited 128 Kbits/sec. Great technology (at the time), but insane pricing.
The guy made $ 1,050 per day for about 95 days over 15 months to make about $ 100,000. Software developers probably made more than that in 15 months, but they had to work about 325 days. I'm feeling no sympathy.
On the contrary, I can't imagine who wouldn't use real money converted into Linden $ in SL. People will actually do "work" in SL to earn L$. Most people make between US$0.50 and US$1.00 per hour. Why would you do that? Just get a real job and convert a few bucks so you can buy a new slutty dress or furry suit in SL and be done with it already.
Unless JetBlue/LiveTV acquired another license, they're seriously bandwidth limited. In 2006 they got a license to use a 1 MHz slice in the 841 to 851 MHz spectruum. Increasing the number of ground stations and using directional antennas helps, but we're definitely not talking anywhere near broadband speeds if they're still using that spectrum (which used to be used by GTE Airfone).
It's missing a few features of "modern" spreadsheets, but at 26.9 Kbytes (for the version that runs in a DOS command prompt), there probably isn't anything smaller.
There's even the PackBot model for dealing with people who have really, really messy offices, but that's probably out of my price range.
The PackBot and larger Warrior models have also been weaponized.
Going from one of the earlier postings of the building looking like it's about 100 feet in diameter, that's 7,850 sq. ft. per story, or 123 kilowatts per story. If the building is 30 stories tall, we're talking 3.6 megawatts just to run the lights!
You probably won't have to heat the building, ever, but the air conditioning bill in the summer time would be astronomical.
Ignoring that whole air conditioning thing, if you were able to get 80 watts per square meter 8 hours a day from solar cells (you wouldn't in NY, but even if you could), you'd need... 17 acres of land covered with solar cells to power the lights!
You've obviously never used Norton Internet Security 2007 or McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007.
On my MacBook, which should have a 6-bit display, the left and right squares look quite different to me. I believe that's a good indication that the time-based "dithering" used on the MacBook is not nearly as bad as space-based dithering, at least for people who are unable to see flicker significantly above 60 Hz.
The distance-to-the-next-town and speed limit signs within 10 km of Montpelier, Vermont on I-89 are listed in km and km/h. It doesn't seem to have caused a collapse of society or an epidemic of people driving 105 MPH on that section of road, so perhaps Americans can figure out that sort of thing after all.
Though with Windows 2000 in extended support phase since June of this year, there are probably a number of larger corporations that skipped Windows XP and plan to go from 2000 to Vista.
All other issues aside, there is no possible way we could afford anywhere near that many touch-screen machines. Even barring technical problems this is bound to cause a bottleneck as people ponder their vote.
Yahoo Answers are completed by random people who have enough time to sit around and answer what appears to me to be a lot of really stupid questions that people should have been able to figure the answers to by themselves.
Apparently people prefer a free answer of questionable accuracy to having to pay for an answer.
An original IBM PC weighed 28 pounds with two floppy disk drives. A cell phone (err... mobile?) with a heavy gauge steel case would probably be pretty durable, but I wouldn't want to carry one around.
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Certain companies have filed trademark infringement and related claims against us over the display of ads in response to user queries that include trademark terms. The outcomes of these lawsuits have differed from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Courts in France have held us liable for allowing advertisers to select certain trademarked terms as keywords. We are appealing those decisions. We were also subject to two lawsuits in Germany on similar matters where the courts held that we are not liable for the actions of our advertisers prior to notification of trademark rights. We are litigating or recently have litigated similar issues in other cases in the U.S., France, Germany, Italy, Israel and Austria. Adverse results in these lawsuits may result in, or even compel, a change in this practice which could result in a loss of revenue for us, which could harm our business.
Certain entities have also filed copyright claims against us, alleging that features of certain of our products, including Google Web Search, Google News, Google Video, Google Image Search, and Google Book Search, infringe their rights. In addition, our planned acquisition of YouTube may also subject us to additional copyright claims upon the closing of the transaction. Adverse results in these lawsuits may include awards of damages and may also result in, or even compel, a change in our business practices, which could result in a loss of revenue for us or otherwise harm our business.
From time to time, we may also become a party to other litigation and subject to claims incident to the ordinary course of business, including intellectual property claims (in addition to the trademark and copyright matters noted above), labor and employment claims, breach of contract claims, tax and other matters. Although the results of litigation and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, we believe that the final outcome of the matters discussed above will not have a material adverse effect on our business, consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flow.
Assuming we stick this in a balmy tropical island with 70F water (21C), we'd need to raise 752,510 kg of water 79C which is 59 million kilocalories or 248 million kilojoules. That's 69,000 kilowatt hours or 235,808,450 BTU. This probably not unreasonable if you really only need to do it once a month, but it's not an insignificant amount of energy, either.
If the air traffic control system can go down because of a single faulty card in a router, fake or not, I'm thinking I want to avoid planes, and look up a lot more than I do now.
My goal is to spend as much time as possible doing non-essential things. It's called relaxing, and is a fine alternative to working.