Hah thanks for pointing this out. I'm getting very confused by these number to be honest and I mixed up the 75% efficiency improvement of CFL the article says over traditional incandescent with 75% efficiency overall. But then again, 75% efficiency improvement over 2% is just 3.5% overall, still nowhere near 8% lower bound of the CFL report by the Wiki. Now I wonder where NYT got their numbers from...
I'm sorry but this so called new technology is a farce. 30% improvement in efficiency over 5% efficiency is still just 8% overall. At $5 apiece, which is way more then a CFL, which goes around $2.5 to $3.3 apiece, and it's 75% efficiency, I'm going for CFL.
One incident in a static subsystem in isolation with the rest of the system may disprove a theory about that subsystem, but the universe is dynamic whole, so this incident doesn't say much except for what it is, a weird incident. For all I know it could have been a Death Star committing suicide by shooting at a sun 200 million years ago.
If she can somehow become the poster girl for geeky women and bring more of those into our line of work to lighten up the workplace, that'll be awesome. Now that's progress my friends.
The so-called "cracking down" is really website voluntarily joining in the call for a 3 day mourning period. There's no crack down order issued for this incident. The Chinese government does clamp down on dissenters from time to time, but fact for fact, it is not happening for this mourning period. Just like the whole western media(including Slashdot on various occasions) is assuming that China was cracking down on the Tibetans using excess force where in fact it was the Tibetans who were harming the innocents. If don't believe me, go read the blogs of westerners who were actually in Tibet when that happened.
There IS no "crack down" happening here, therefore, criticizing "yet again" is not so "rightfully so". Get your facts straight before commenting.
Nobody is arguing about freedom here. Human rights is universal. It doesn't warrant baseless accusations however. Presumption is a presumption, regardless of the subject has a precedent of doing similar things or not.
Ok I rephrase as we seems to be in a words game now. The president didn't "issue", he declared. Yes it is true. Look it up. It's NOT mandatory but encouraged.
As much as I hate this sensationalist topic about China floating on Slashdot just like others Slashdot's front page everyday (literally). I have to start blaming this to either mass uninformed stupidity or the entire western media for so many years of biased and irresponsible reports on China. It seems that the more China is making progress in its modernization effort, the more biased reports on it surfaces for whatever reason.
The little village in Sichuan has lost 50K lives and had 200K injured and millions of lives affected and all you hypocrites know is how China is "shutting down" entertainment websites.
First of all, I've been reading all the news reports from Hong Kong and Taiwan and I don't see any reports on this "shutting down".
Second of all, the president of China has issued a 3 days national mourning period, which happens to encourage a temp suspension of normal entertainment activities.
To the Chinese, this is perfectly normal and merited because this is the traditional Confucian way of mourning. When disasters strike the US, the president and everyone else goes "business as usual", in China, people actually stop and mourn. It's called "culture" people. The world culture is not uniform. Not everybody grew up in the US.
Linus Torvalds and others have said time and time again that the operating system he and the tech people speak of is the kernel of a distribution that end-users really shouldn't care about. Ubuntu, OS X, Windows are just "distributions" of a mixture of applications on top of a kernel (i.e OS). End-users are shielded from all the applications' (Gnome, KDE, OO.o, FF) abstractions built on top of kernel. It is in this sense that Linus believes that users shouldn't care about the OS (read as kernel) because it is expected to "just work".
I think this pretty much wraps up the debate here. Go home now, nothing to see here.
The original article says and suggests nothing about the photo being "doctored", it's simply a mistake that scientists make all the time. When can we expect a better moderated Slashdot or people who can read?
LOL. Nice try.
Nicely said Max Littlemore. Couldn't agree with you more. The fact is that it doesn't matter how our climate is affected by external factors because we have the ability to control it. If we want to maintain the stability of our climate since the last ice-age, we have to start reducing CO2 levels, if the cosmic ray theory turns out to be a big cause of global warming, doesn't that mean we have to start restriction carbon emission right away and may be even set the emission limit lower? Either way CO2 is still trapping heat in the atmosphere like a thick blanket under the sun. The question is by how much do we have to reduce CO2.
When I go buy a hammer from Home Depot, do you count the gas that you've spent, the time and money you may have lost from the time you get the hammer and everytime you use it? Which you could have earned a few by monitoring the stock market? You might hit your thumb with the hammer too, so you shouldn't buy a hammer. You should instead borrow a hammer from your neighbor. Oh wait, you neighbors think that too, so now you are out of a hammer, and need to hit the nail with a spoon.
This is another example of a bad article that's been accumulating on Slashdot. The girl who wrote the article is obviously a brain-damaged journalist wannabe IT department kiddie. People should think before they write an article, think twice before they submit one, and think thrice before they post it on the front page.
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Hah thanks for pointing this out. I'm getting very confused by these number to be honest and I mixed up the 75% efficiency improvement of CFL the article says over traditional incandescent with 75% efficiency overall. But then again, 75% efficiency improvement over 2% is just 3.5% overall, still nowhere near 8% lower bound of the CFL report by the Wiki. Now I wonder where NYT got their numbers from...
I'm sorry but this so called new technology is a farce. 30% improvement in efficiency over 5% efficiency is still just 8% overall. At $5 apiece, which is way more then a CFL, which goes around $2.5 to $3.3 apiece, and it's 75% efficiency, I'm going for CFL.
One incident in a static subsystem in isolation with the rest of the system may disprove a theory about that subsystem, but the universe is dynamic whole, so this incident doesn't say much except for what it is, a weird incident. For all I know it could have been a Death Star committing suicide by shooting at a sun 200 million years ago.
I somehow have a hard time finding her pic on the net. Care for a link?
If she can somehow become the poster girl for geeky women and bring more of those into our line of work to lighten up the workplace, that'll be awesome. Now that's progress my friends.
Fact:
H1-B workers in this country get paid the same as US-citizens. Companies pay by merit, not country of origin.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/05/22/apple_seeks_expert_in_wimax_impromptu_5th_ave_lineup_more.html The answer to something seeming perplexing is usually something simple, if the observer has any common sense at all.
The so-called "cracking down" is really website voluntarily joining in the call for a 3 day mourning period. There's no crack down order issued for this incident. The Chinese government does clamp down on dissenters from time to time, but fact for fact, it is not happening for this mourning period. Just like the whole western media(including Slashdot on various occasions) is assuming that China was cracking down on the Tibetans using excess force where in fact it was the Tibetans who were harming the innocents. If don't believe me, go read the blogs of westerners who were actually in Tibet when that happened. There IS no "crack down" happening here, therefore, criticizing "yet again" is not so "rightfully so". Get your facts straight before commenting. Nobody is arguing about freedom here. Human rights is universal. It doesn't warrant baseless accusations however. Presumption is a presumption, regardless of the subject has a precedent of doing similar things or not.
Ok I rephrase as we seems to be in a words game now. The president didn't "issue", he declared. Yes it is true. Look it up. It's NOT mandatory but encouraged.
As much as I hate this sensationalist topic about China floating on Slashdot just like others Slashdot's front page everyday (literally). I have to start blaming this to either mass uninformed stupidity or the entire western media for so many years of biased and irresponsible reports on China. It seems that the more China is making progress in its modernization effort, the more biased reports on it surfaces for whatever reason.
The little village in Sichuan has lost 50K lives and had 200K injured and millions of lives affected and all you hypocrites know is how China is "shutting down" entertainment websites.
First of all, I've been reading all the news reports from Hong Kong and Taiwan and I don't see any reports on this "shutting down".
Second of all, the president of China has issued a 3 days national mourning period, which happens to encourage a temp suspension of normal entertainment activities.
To the Chinese, this is perfectly normal and merited because this is the traditional Confucian way of mourning. When disasters strike the US, the president and everyone else goes "business as usual", in China, people actually stop and mourn. It's called "culture" people. The world culture is not uniform. Not everybody grew up in the US.
I don't know about you but I've been using the HPN variant of OpenSSH from MacPorts for a couple of years now. Don't know why this is news.
Linus Torvalds and others have said time and time again that the operating system he and the tech people speak of is the kernel of a distribution that end-users really shouldn't care about. Ubuntu, OS X, Windows are just "distributions" of a mixture of applications on top of a kernel (i.e OS). End-users are shielded from all the applications' (Gnome, KDE, OO.o, FF) abstractions built on top of kernel. It is in this sense that Linus believes that users shouldn't care about the OS (read as kernel) because it is expected to "just work". I think this pretty much wraps up the debate here. Go home now, nothing to see here.
The original article says and suggests nothing about the photo being "doctored", it's simply a mistake that scientists make all the time. When can we expect a better moderated Slashdot or people who can read?
The author of this article obviously isn't much of a Web 2.0 dev. Check this out: http://www.editgrid.com/
LOL. Nice try. Nicely said Max Littlemore. Couldn't agree with you more. The fact is that it doesn't matter how our climate is affected by external factors because we have the ability to control it. If we want to maintain the stability of our climate since the last ice-age, we have to start reducing CO2 levels, if the cosmic ray theory turns out to be a big cause of global warming, doesn't that mean we have to start restriction carbon emission right away and may be even set the emission limit lower? Either way CO2 is still trapping heat in the atmosphere like a thick blanket under the sun. The question is by how much do we have to reduce CO2.
When I go buy a hammer from Home Depot, do you count the gas that you've spent, the time and money you may have lost from the time you get the hammer and everytime you use it? Which you could have earned a few by monitoring the stock market? You might hit your thumb with the hammer too, so you shouldn't buy a hammer. You should instead borrow a hammer from your neighbor. Oh wait, you neighbors think that too, so now you are out of a hammer, and need to hit the nail with a spoon. This is another example of a bad article that's been accumulating on Slashdot. The girl who wrote the article is obviously a brain-damaged journalist wannabe IT department kiddie. People should think before they write an article, think twice before they submit one, and think thrice before they post it on the front page.