Comment Re:For the non USA people (Score 1) 239
298.279949 kilowatts to be more precise
Comment Very surprised that it took this long (Score 4, Insightful) 232
I'm surprised that this wasn't implemented a long time ago. Even Windows has had signed code for quiet some time.
Comment Working men top out around $120k (Score 1, Insightful) 173
The working people, including Engineers and Attorneys top out around $120k/yr. If you're going to surpass this ceiling, you must break away and do for yourself. This magic number gives people the illusion of superiority while giving them just enough to remain a slave to society.
Comment Re:Why not just multiple monitors. (Score 3, Insightful) 520
The problem that you describe is just an indicator that our software has not yet evolved for this type of display. Solutions to the problems that you have described are sure to pop up as creative individuals start a race toward different solutions.
Comment Years from now someone will look at this (Score 4, Funny) 684
Years from now someone will look at this event from lightyears away, and from their telescopes on their planet with a planet wide climate control system, they will see this system and observe a small planet orbiting a star much like their own, with a lot of activity in the radio spectrum being emitted. However, they will dismiss this planet as having intelligent life as the weather patterns are too sporadic to be those from a planet which harbors a civilization; for those who have not yet controlled their planet are simply animals and nothing more.
Comment Re:GNU/Linux and vi (Score 1) 133
I content that emacs is a great Operating System, however it's still missing a good text editor. I'll stick with vi.
Comment Re: OneNote (Score 4, Interesting) 133
The parallels here are so obvious it is laughable. He is trying to take control of his life and you're saying that the control should be handled over to a corporation known to abandon support for it's products as people are still making use of them. All due to a broken business model. GNU/Linux and vi should be enough to get such a simple job done.
Comment Re:Get rid of those things (Score 1) 944
You're better off heating with a heat pump—it's about three times more efficient than resistive heat, which is what you get out of a light bulb. Of course, if all you have is resistive heat, you're right that it makes no difference, but people who live in cold climates typically don't use resistive heat because it's so bloody expensive. We use oil, or gas, or heat pump, or wood, or some combination of these.
Heat Pumps don't work when it's below freezing.
Comment Re:Get rid of those things (Score 3, Insightful) 944
If you have a brain, you got rid of those fucking things more than 5 years ago.
It would be a pretty stupid thing to buy and expensive LED or other bulb to put in a crawlspace, or attic, or even a closet. Payback will never happen. Not enough energy used to make a difference either.
I am not an Electrician, but I'm pretty sure that you aren't supposed to use incandescent lights in a closet because of the fire risk involved. An attic or crawlspace, which will have exposed insulation and other combustibles that aren't behind a firewall (Drywall) like the other parts of your home, probably shouldn't have those in there either. It produces a very real and tangible safety issue. House fires started in concealed places are the worst as you can be in your home and not notice until it's too late.
While you use these for a short amount of time, it is easy to leave one on. Just spend the $5-$25 for the remote possibility of saving a $100,000 - $1,000,000 structure.
Comment Re:That's no moon! (Score 1) 25
All I know is that there is little left to talk about now...
Comment Re:Still have to rely on the NICs (Score 1) 213
Like that Intel NIC that was reliably going offline when receiving a "corrupted" packet?
Suffice to say that this is one of the times that, "It's not a bug, it's a feature" wouldn't apply.
Comment Still have to rely on the NICs (Score 4, Insightful) 213
You still have to rely on the trustworthiness of the NICs. Anything contacted to the Internet can not be trusted.
Comment Obligatory Monty Python (Score 4, Funny) 141
I'm not dead yet!
BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn 141
iONiUM writes "Today BlackBerry announced a $4.4 billion loss, and a deal with Foxconn to outsource hardware manufacturing. One interesting stat is that 75% of sales were actually older BB7 devices. That said, CEO John Chen says, 'We are very much alive, thank you.' He adds, 'Our "for sale" sign has been taken down and we are here to stay. BlackBerry recently announced it has entered into an agreement to receive a strategic investment from Fairfax Financial and other institutional investors, which represents a vote of confidence in the future of BlackBerry.'"
Comment Re:Yeah, no ... (Score 1) 287
It's not just Computer Science that they are doing this to, a lot of American high schools are teaching kids welding and calling it Structural Engineering. All they are doing is lying to kids by showing them the high salaries of the top men in these fields, and then teaching them to be peasants. They used to show us how to get into Engineering while in high school, we called it Calculus.
