MikeCapone - Slashdot User

+ - Free Apps to Turn Your iPhone into a Mobile Office-> 1

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MikeCapone

on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @01:56PM

MikeCapone writes "For many professionals, tending to business while on vacation is a requirement. But don'(TM)t let that reality derail your trip. These days, you can do everything from scanning and signing documents to sending hands-free texts while driving--"all from your iPhone. We’ve rounded up the best office apps that let you take your show on the road, so you can spend more time sunbathing, and less time searching for the nearest fax machine. Did we mention that they're all free?"
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+ - Satellite Spots Burning Man Festival from Space-> 0

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MikeCapone

on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @11:47AM

MikeCapone writes "A European Space Agency (ESA) satellite has captured what has become one of modern society's most hedonistic adventures--Burning Man. Taken about 400 miles up, the picture shows Black Rock City in full swing along with all of its 50,000-something attendees. ESA compiled the photograph using four photos, each with a resolution of about 16 feet. The perfect tribute as Burning Man just entered its 25th year. The festival started at San Francisco's Ocean Beach back in 1986 and relocated 120 miles north of Reno in 1990."
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+ - Kite-Powered Electric Car Crosses Australia-> 1

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MikeCapone

on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @02:30PM

MikeCapone writes "The Wind Explorer--a kite-assisted lightweight electric car--drove 3,107 miles across Australia in 18 days using only $15 worth of electricity. As if that wasn't amazing enough, they journey set three world records: the first continental crossing by a wind-powered vehicle, the longest distance covered by a wind powered vehicle, and the longest distance covered by such vehicle in 36 hours!"
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+ - Photographer Discovers Mysterious "Bearded" Antelo-> 0

Submitted by sprinkletown on Sunday August 22, 2010 @02:54PM

sprinkletown writes "Veteran wildlife photographer Paolo Torchio made a bizarre discovery while visiting Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve: a mysterious "bearded" antelope. While one expert suggests the animal might only be suffering from hypertrichosis, a condition once known as werewolf syndrome, Torchio's experience is the only known encounter with such an animal."
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+ - Federal Judge Bans Genetically Modified Sugar Beet-> 0

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MikeCapone

on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @01:02PM

MikeCapone writes "On Friday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White revoked a five-year-old approval of genetically altered sugar beets from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Judge White cited the USDA's insufficient testing of weedkiller-tolerant sugar beets and their possible effects to the environment. Genetically modified (GMO) sugar beets are already planted on more than one million acres of farmland, spanning 10 different states from Michigan to Oregon, present in 95-percent of U.S.-grown sugar beet plants."
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+ - Algorithm Cuts Delays in Half for German Trains-> 1

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MikeCapone

on Thursday July 22, 2010 @11:13AM

MikeCapone writes "The algorithms have not only cut waiting time between trains from four minutes to two on the Berlin underground network, but have also been used to draw up a new timetable for the Dutch national railway system, which handles 5,500 trains per day. In Switzerland, the system has been used to optimise a schedule so that additional trains may operate on high-risk sections of track, while trials at the Italian stations of Palermo and Genoa have reduced delays by 25%."
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+ - NASA Creates First Global Forest Map Using Lasers-> 0

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MikeCapone

on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @12:54PM

MikeCapone writes "Scientists, using three NASA satellites, have created a first-of-its-kind map that details the height of the world's forests. The data was collected from NASA's ICESat, Terra and Aqua satellites. The latter two satellites are responsible for most of NASA's Gulf spill imagery. The data collected will help scientists understand how the world's forests both store and process carbon. While there are many local and regional canopy maps, this is the very first global map using a uniform method for measure."
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+ - Cheap 3D Solar Cell 6x More Efficient, Works Under-> 0

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MikeCapone

on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @03:22PM

MikeCapone writes "Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world's first 3-D photovoltaic solar system that actually works underground. The result is up to six times more efficient than planar zinc oxide cells with the same surface area."
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+ - 7 Electric Vehicles Built Before the 1900s-> 1

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Jaymi

on Sunday September 27, 2009 @11:45PM

Jaymi writes "One might be surprised that the EV dates all the way back to the 1800s. In fact, in its heyday, there were 4,192 cars made in the U.S. and 28-percent of them were electric! Here are some defining moments from New York Cityâ(TM)s first fleet of electric taxis to setting the very first land speed record."
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+ - Man Builds 100 MPG Lotus Replica that Runs on Home-> 0

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jerryjamesstone

on Friday September 25, 2009 @02:06PM

jerryjamesstone writes "Guy built this Lotus replica that he runs on homebrewed biodiesel. It was to race in the X Prize race but sadly, MAX has been withdrawn from the Automotive X Prize because it was too expensive to make it meet the new rules."
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+ - Mud-Loving Bacteria Increases Fuel Cell Output by -> 0

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jerryjamesstone

on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @09:04AM

jerryjamesstone writes "Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst evolved a new strain of the Geobacter microbe that increases power output per cell by 800%. The hairy mud-loving microbe uses its hairlike filamentsâ"called piliâ"to produce an electric current from both mud and waste water. The pili are only 5 nanometers in diameter (20,000 times smaller than a human hair); theyâ(TM)re also a thousand times longer than they are wide."
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Comment: Re:Googles problem will be their increasing size (Score 1) 156

by MikeCapone on Friday April 28, 2006 @01:27AM (#15218846) Attached to: How Google's Novel Management System Aids Growth

Taken strictly in business terms, making money is the only measure that counts.

Sure, but that's not what we're doing, are we?