Comment Re:anniversary (Score 1) 337
Unfortunately I have to do half an anniversary on both February 28 and March 1 to get the average right.
Unfortunately I have to do half an anniversary on both February 28 and March 1 to get the average right.
I voted water because we do produce energy from mainly hydropower in Norway. However, there is an energy market where my power distributor sells and buys, and I've opted for the "CO2 free" package, which guarantees that they only buy from renewable energy sources, which could be supporting a wind power company in Germany. At the moment this means that my supplier "buys energy" from hydropower (94.5%) and windpower (5.5%). The alternative "cheapest energy" package would give me only 24% of renewable sources and 59% of "unidentified" sources, which often means coal.
A viral video of a new game in the wipeout series made it to slashdot frontpage? I must be new here.
I'm not feeling very competent, but:
a) Soot particles aggregate, lowering their surface-to-volume ratio, shutting down the combustion, or
b) Soot particles escape the plasma, shutting down combustion, or
c) Electron flow from the gun interferes with the combustion reaction itself, which would be awesome
"The suspect is a newcomer adhering to group 31US0041. It took us 15 minutes to complete the DNA analysis, and another 30 minutes to locate the suspect, since they all look identical. Case closed."
It seems to me that the combination of a large external drive and online storage is easy and safe. The crashplan backup software lets you perform backup of a set of data to multiple destinations, including any connected drive/folder, online storage and sending to friends' computers. Thus you can be a couple of friends (3 should be more than enough) who team up to have 3 copies of each others' backup sets.
That way the backup is performed quickly to the external drive, while it trickles to the online repository and to your friends, depending on your broadband speed. Get some international friends and you're ridiculously secure from any disaster. I imagine crashplan soon will have "virtual friends" which are backup sites in the siberian tundra or something, why not?
Simon
Come on, any good salesperson in a shop, booth, kiosk would to the same:
"One mars bar please"
"There you go. By the way we've got a good offer on razors this week. Playboy mag here says the ladies like it clean nowadays. Although that coke ad says the opposite, that them girls like it ruffian style, it's refreshing."
I've tried an ipad and I thought it was awesome. I would love to have in the lab to make notes and look up information and later run to my colleagues down the research hall and show a video of something amazing that just happened, which we can discuss and giggle about. That tablet thing makes certain collaboration and sharing tasks more fluent than either emailing or physically shoving a laptop around.
If there is a tablet that can be docked in a comfortable keyboard and has the power (thin-client?) to do serious work, then I'm all in.
Right now, though, I have a nice laptop which is fairly portable and can run without any cables for a significant amount of time. Plus I have an iphone 4 that allows me to consume and share cool things rapidly and fluently. I still need something that replaces my current laptop, which is a very high step to reach.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.