Very few people with the unlimitied AT&T plan switched away from it (statisticlly speaking anyway). The reason that Verizon is offering a 'temporary' unlimited plan is to entice those AT&T users who can't see themselves surviving on a metered service, but hate their coverage, to switch over to Verizon secure in the knowledge that they can still have an unlimited plan. Once these folks have had enough time to jump over, Verizon kills the plan for new subscribers. It's a great marketing ploy. I just don't see a large pool of existing frustrated AT&T users who dropped the unlimited plan clamoring to get back to it.

It doesn't matter.

When Company A buys stuff from Company B, all existing agreements and contracts concerning that assett with external parties must remain in force when the assett is transferred. CNPT can't just change the playing field on an agreement already in effect.

Now, CNPT may be less likely to renew certain agreements that may have an expiration date than Novell may have been, but any agreement with an expiration is an at risk deal anyway, no matter who the original agreement was with.

In those vehicles, the other cylinders that are de-activated are still spinning and thus placing a drag load on the engine as they are all tied to the same crankshaft. This engine has an electro-actuated clutch between cylender segments so that they provide no drag on the active segments of the engine when not in use.

Horse "Stealing"... (Darned Computers)

Here Here... String 'em up I say!

If we can send 35 billion to these banks every couple of weeks, we should damn well be able to afford $150 mill for some needed space probes. It's only the long term future of the continuing human instinct to explore our world and universe!

...defines a classic as having to break new ground? or is that just your personal opinion?

The original post doesn't say anything about limiting his readings to books announcing initial discoveries.

The Bryson book illuminates the context and connections between hundreds of scientific discoveries, as well as some of the coincidences or dumb luck that helped them come about. It somehow manages to do so in an engaging and entertaining fashion.

Keep in mind, also that many /. readers do NOT have 4 year degrees from institutions where they were forced to take a broad collection of science courses. As such, the quantity and variety of topics covered by Bryson could be a useful first exposure to many people in need of a little broader scientific perspective.

Writing biased to the Left? How? Unless you are talking about the places where he points out that it took 80 years to get the production of a harmful poluttant outlawed etc., which comes up a couple times, but that could hardly be called left leaning. He's just reporting the facts.

It's not a current classic, but will probably be one in 100 years. "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson is a phenominal read that covers all the main discoveries on most scientific disciplines. And it's somehow a page turner as well!

The original dutch article seems to show that the WRE 060 windmill actually was producing 6kW (6000 Kwh/year) as opposed to the 485kWh/year listed in the english summary. That seems to make sense as that design clearly has the most blade surface area.

At 6000Kwh one 3.3 meter diameter windmill could nearly power a US household. Add to that that the vertical shaft orientation lets you put the generator on the ground without an efficiency sapping 90 degree CV joint, plus it lets you increase capacity by adding another blade-set above the existing two without an increas in diameter (just height and horizontal loading).

So, that design seems to be the most promising to me unless I have gotten something wrong, which I'm sure someone will point out!

I also fail to see the point. Each server is going to add X amount of heat to the room as it operates, so the AC system needs to remove X amount of heat to maintain a stable temperature. Overall, the AC system has to do roughtly the same amount of work. The higher room temperature will give you a greater temperature difference for your exchnage medium (water usually), so that shouold give you some higher efficiency as you cool it with ambient outside air. Based on the previous post, however, it looks like this increased efficiency will be lost by the added power required for the CPUs to run at the higher temperature (they will actually be producing more heat than they would if running cooler). End result... Basically no real savings, just a pissed off IT team. While there may be ways to reduce data center cooling costs, this isn't it!

From the post: "Great in theory but some of the industry already bases battery figures on a two-test measurement, and the results are still wildly inaccurate"

So What?... As long as they begin to publish true measured figures (Idle & Loaded) as opposed to some guess that they would make, then spin in the marketing department, no-one can complain if their own results vary. All the manufacturer can do is publish what they can measure. Any specific user who claims that their performance differs needs to understand that that there is no more reliable way to predict performance for their specific situation. Therefor, this can only be seen as an improvement.

I did. and it sounds like there is a very strong legal case. The laws governing the conduct of prostitution are different from those governing copywrite, so what craigslist is doing really is illegal. It is illegal to "facilitate" the commitment of illegal prostitution activities, and craigslist knows that this particular section of the website is unsed widely for just this purpose. After being presented with vast amounts of evidence of this illegal activity, they have made no effors to try to weed out the illegal activity, so the Sherrif's last resort is to sue for injunctive releif. The internet is a great tool, but that doesn't mean that it is perfect or can't be used for illegal activity.

Big drawback is ease of use... The interface was designed by the engineers and really sucks, but it can do a lot and comes in a redundant pair config, so you always have a standby unit to take ofver if the first one dies.

Many readers may already know this, but Atlantis has most likely already been found, as near as we humans will probably ever be able to tell anyway.

If there was an actual place and society that inspired the fictional tale of morals and corruption spun by Plato, it was most likely the Minoan civlization on Santorini and Crete from around 1600 BC. It was an advanced (for the time) civilization wiped out (or at least dispersed forever) by the cataclismic eruption of the caldera that formed the ring structured island. This link has oner of the better discussions of the issue without all the hyperbol and passion that many 'seekers' often display.

http://www.decadevolcano.net/santorini/atlantis.htm