Comment: Re:My $.002 (Score 1) 214
Yahoo no longer has any search technology, their search system is powered by Bing.
Comment: Re:Loyalty? (Score 1) 735
$10k and it sounds like ~70mins a day in saved commute. That's over 23 hours a month in time not wasted -- over half a work week! Maybe he'll waste that time anyway but there are certainly many productive things he could do with it.
Comment: Heatsink/Fan Combo (Score 1) 715
IBM T60 heatsink/fan combo failed. The computer was overheating and freezing or rebooting at least once a day. I had a room fan pointed at the keyboard (it sits in a docking station) to keep it cool enough to use.
Finally got sick of it and ordered a new heatsink/fan combo and did the replacement. Was far easier than I expected and the computer runs perfectly again.
Comment: Re:Non-european diesel awd? (Score 1) 1141
Subaru has a turbo diesel Legacy (AWD of course) that they have been selling in Europe for a couple of years. Last I heard they planned to bring it to the US sometime this year. Claimed economy is 50mpg on the highway, I guess that means somewhere just over 40 in real life. Pretty good though!
I have a Japanese market gasoline Legacy B4 spec.b that gets about 12mpg in the city. I don't think my lead foot has anything to do with that.
Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies 456
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from the cart-before-the-horse dept.
from the cart-before-the-horse dept.
Gary Phebus wants to donate his heart, lungs, and liver. The problem is he wants to donate them before he dies. Gary was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in 2008. Phebus says he'd like to be able to donate his organs before they deteriorate, and doesn't consider his request suicide because he's "dead anyway."
Comment: Re:So.. factories are *moving* within china (Score 1) 476
Anyway, I know it's great to have people employed, but if it can be automated, why wasn't it before now? The more tedious jobs we can do with machines, the more people are freed up for other things.
Why wasn't the work automated? Cost. It's cheaper to pay $130/month for a human to do the work than it is to invest millions in factory automation.
This can be true even in developed countries. I worked for a German company for several years. This company produced very small items that needed to be packed in boxes of between 50 and 500 pieces. It was possible to automate the work but even considering German wages it was cheaper to pay humans than to buy machines.
New Evidence Presented For Ancient Fossils In Mars Rocks 91
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Soulskill
from the hope-the-protectors-leave-them-alone dept.
from the hope-the-protectors-leave-them-alone dept.
azoblue passes along a story in the Washington Post, which begins:
"NASA's Mars Meteorite Research Team reopened a 14-year-old controversy on extraterrestrial life last week, reaffirming and offering support for its widely challenged assertion that a 4-billion-year-old meteorite that landed thousands of years ago on Antarctica shows evidence of microscopic life on Mars. In addition to presenting research that they said disproved some of their critics, the scientists reported that additional Martian meteorites appear to house distinct and identifiable microbial fossils that point even more strongly to the existence of life. 'We feel more confident than ever that Mars probably once was, and maybe still is, home to life,' team leader David McKay said at a NASA-sponsored conference on astrobiology."
Comment: Re:stupid poll - should be millions, not thousands (Score 1) 465
Agreed 100%. I am currently about 4.24 million times my height from my place of birth.
The poll writer must either be really REALLY tall or not travel much.
Comment: Waiting on Intel... (Score 1) 408
Waiting for Intel to release their next generation of quad core mobile chips, probably in Q2 next year.
Once those come out and Lenovo and HP bring out models with the new chips I will replace my aging Core Duo ThinkPad T60 with something much faster and with a LOT more memory. 3GB is not cutting it well anymore and that's the most I can stuff into this machine.
Comment: Re:Celsius: It's for telling temperature (Score 1) 1233
Most of your post is excellent and metric is indeed a much better system than imperial (speaking as someone who knows and can use both.)
There is one minor error though: 1m3 holds 1000 litres of water, and therefore 1000kg or 1 metric ton. A 10cm x 10cm x 10cm cube would hold 1 litre.