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« Last post by Renegade on December 03, 2012, 09:22 PM »[ These people are out of their minds.....]-Tinman57 (December 03, 2012, 08:53 PM)
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It needs to stop at some point.
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[ These people are out of their minds.....]-Tinman57 (December 03, 2012, 08:53 PM)
Jamen Shively, a former Microsoft executive, plans to spend the next year researching and building a retail marijuana business that he hopes will bring legitimacy to a long-illegal industry.
Shively said he brainstormed the idea after a few bong hits.
On November 23, a researcher from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, Marjolein Helder, presented her Ph.D. research on a method to generate clean, renewable electricity from natural interactions between the soil and growing plants.
Plants produce such enormous quantities of organic material from photosynthesis that they actually excrete 70 percent of it, unused, into the soil by their roots. This provides important nutrients for bacteria and other soil organisms. When bacteria metabolize this organic matter, they release electrons into the soil. The premise of the Plant-Microbial Fuel Cell is that electrodes placed close to the roots of plants can absorb these electrons and use them to generate electricity, much like a battery.
Helder's tests indicate that the Plant-Microbial Fuel Cell can generate 0.4 W of electricity per square meter of vegetated area, more than biomass fermentation is currently capable of. Through further refinement of the technique, Helder predicts that its power generating capacity could rise as high as 3.2 W per square meter. This level of power generation would enable the average household to be supplied entirely from the power generated by grass planted on a 100 square-meter roof.
If you had to type everything the C# IDE does for you manually, the picture would be different.-vlastimil (December 02, 2012, 04:46 AM)
Getting sorta back on topic, would stuff like Apple's restrictions through the App Store count as a new form of DRM?-TaoPhoenix (December 01, 2012, 09:35 AM)
For an easy example, some videos on Youtube are blocked to mobile browsers. I'm sure my betters have ideas around that. (Browser header changing and all that jazz?)-TaoPhoenix (December 01, 2012, 09:35 AM)
When products truly compete, they get better.
And we all benefit from that.-40hz (December 01, 2012, 08:46 AM)
Competition is a sin.-John D. Rockefeller
On the other hand, I am completely for offline storage. With hard drive prices going down, it is easier to download a file and store it than to rely on the cloud. I have almost completed ripping my 850 DVD collection to MP4 for storage on our media server. This will be complete once I am able to setup a Raid 1 array of about 4TB. Right now, I am stuck at 2TB on a single disk. Once I get a new enclosure, I will setup a Windows-based raid mirror (hardware raid is flaky unless you invest in a reliable controller, not those cheap promise boards).-Josh (December 01, 2012, 06:28 AM)
Kind of OT, but... Have you looked at FreeNAS? Someone recommended it to me in another thread and it's been wonderful.-Renegade (December 01, 2012, 06:31 AM)
@Josh - +1 w/Ren on FreeNAS. It's a great solution. Before you commit to using Windows, consider giving FreeNAS a try. It won't cost you anything other than your time to try it out. You may be surprised to find it's everything you need - plus a whole lot more.
Although I'm not too big on recommending RAID for most personal uses and/or skill levels, it does have it's place. And the software implementations of RAID running under the NIX environment have proven extremely reliable in my experience. And I do servers for a living. So I see a few more of them in operation than most people do.
Just my
-40hz (December 01, 2012, 07:20 AM)
On the other hand, I am completely for offline storage. With hard drive prices going down, it is easier to download a file and store it than to rely on the cloud. I have almost completed ripping my 850 DVD collection to MP4 for storage on our media server. This will be complete once I am able to setup a Raid 1 array of about 4TB. Right now, I am stuck at 2TB on a single disk. Once I get a new enclosure, I will setup a Windows-based raid mirror (hardware raid is flaky unless you invest in a reliable controller, not those cheap promise boards).-Josh (December 01, 2012, 06:28 AM)
Yet the content industry continues to try, and fail, to produce secure DRM schemes. Biddle believes this strategy has proved counterproductive because it inconveniences legitimate customers without stopping piracy.
"I'm now finding that for some kinds of content, the illegal is clearly outperforming legal," Biddle said. "That blows me away. I pay for premium cable. It's easier to use BitTorrent to watch Game of Thrones. HBO Go is trying very hard to do a good job," he said, but the user experience just isn't as good. Because HBO Go is a streaming service, he said, it's more vulnerable to network congestion than simply downloading the entire episode from the darknet.
Perfect Gift for the Female Geek
(see attachment in previous post)
The Duet is a waterproof multi-speed vibrator with 8 or 16 GB of storage and will have a MSRP of $139.99 – $349.99 depending on the model you buy. The 349.99 model is 16GB and has 24kt gold.
http://www.lovecrave.com/-Stephen66515 (November 30, 2012, 06:36 PM)
Here are the rules:
- 4. You must personally OWN the item you are posting about.
-mouser (November 15, 2012, 09:09 PM)
Ok my gadget for today is a combo:
First, a low-tech invention that has no doubt been perfected over the ages, an Apple Peeler/Corer:
(see attachment in previous post)
http://www.amazon.co...eeler/dp/B0000DE2SS/
Second, a food dehydrator:
(see attachment in previous post)
http://www.amazon.co...drator/dp/B0090WOCM6
Using these two in combination I have been making dehydrated green apple slices, and they are a delicious healthy snack.
Lots of different brands of both of those available everywhere -- I don't have a particular reason to prefer one brand over the other.-mouser (November 30, 2012, 04:48 PM)
Wonderful entry-psionics (November 30, 2012, 04:35 AM)
It's always good to hear! Using Photo Resizer at full screen hides this option a bit.
I can still click on it, by grabbing the very top of the 'OK' box.
A good option for exact Crop Size, nice!-cmpm (November 30, 2012, 07:53 AM)
The main accounting app I develop for my company has a big 'settings' dialog. Initially I used to put all in one big window, separated by box/lines. As the options grew, I made them tab pages. Then again tab pages grew to multi-line tabs. Last I made them to tree, similar to mouser's screen shot.
What I have found that the initial loading of the 'settings' window becomes slower and slower, as all options with tab/tree are made. In fact I show a 'Please wait..' while loading the settings window.
Now as a user I get frustrated when I need to enable/disable just one/two options and I have to wait for the full window to load. I was thinking of some logic which allow me to show the window quickly the 1st tab/tree-node and build rest in background, then again user may just want to go to the last tab/node at first ! Haven't found a good way to have both.
In my freeware apps I generally keep the few settings in main window and add new ones in 'advance' button. The 'basic' options I decide on the options I gave in first few releases, as user expect them there in main window, and add few most used, based on experience or so, to it. The advance window may have tabs/tree and may take long to load. This way, I think, I can make both type of users happy.
Regards,
Anand-anandcoral (November 30, 2012, 04:05 AM)
If memory serves in re. high-school biology, we convert alcohol to sugar-barney (November 29, 2012, 08:24 PM)
I debated about posting this, but I figured perhaps not too many have read the article.
Quite a bit about Social Engineering in it
http://www.wired.com...password-hacker/all/-NigelH (November 29, 2012, 08:13 PM)
