Comment Heat pump (Score 1) 154
I saw a program on geothermal energy years ago, It works on the heat pump principal.
The guy said the problem is not that cant find enough heat, its that they can't get enough cold for the heat pump!
Comment Re:software developer tends not to be a stressful. (Score 1) 128
A colleague in a previous jobs was aged over 60, had worked as a project manager in a previous life, and now worked as a manual writer/technical writer. Boring stuff but somebody had to do it. It suited his stress level just fine.
Comment Re:Let me predict here that this stuff does not wo (Score 1) 129
Even if it does work, it will use radio frequency interference. And an airport is full of RF equipment - Instrument Landing System, VOR, radars, pilot communications. Or they could be shooting down drones.
The airport will have to be shut down because RF interference or bullets from anti-drone guns.
Comment Re:No Evidence of an Actual Drone (Score 2) 129
67 reports of drones and not one photo? Sounds like mass hysteria.
Comment QOS only affects outgoing traffic (Score 2) 126
QOS only affects outgoing packets. This is generally light traffic on a home network - mainly ACKS.
QOS can not affect your incoming traffic, which usually has a far greater volume than incoming.
In other words QOS has virtually no affect in a typical home environment. Its a marketing gimmick .
Comment Plain solar panels cost less (Score 1) 268
Sure you can have these fancy concentrators, but nothing will cost less per kW than plain solar panels arrays or wind power. Why concentrate the suns rays instead of using solar panels, whose costs decrease all the time?
Comment Very weak presentation (Score 1) 631
This is a very weak talk to give at a University. Rather than talking about 'parallel programming' and adding an "It Sucks" button., I would expect a discussion on CSP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_processes or perhaps real time hard to guarantee responsiveness. This is the indoctrination you get when you work for Microsoft, you start spruiking low-level marketing jumbo-jumbo to a very technical audience.
Closing Time At Microsoft's Campus Pub 393
theodp writes "Just three days before the Spitfire pub was to open on Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division campus, TechFlash reports that Microsoft got cold feet and pulled the plug on the project, leaving the bar's owner and his 22 employees in the lurch. 'I am completely stunned and disappointed by the decision,' said now lease-less owner Jonathan Sposato, who's stuck with space built out as a pub, complete with a giant bar, a fireplace, and eight beer taps. (He says it wouldn't be economically viable to refit it as a restaurant.) Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos confirmed the company's sudden change of heart: 'The goal was always to create a cool gathering place for employees, but to do so in a manner that's consistent with a business environment. We decided we should do something more appropriate, and that meant not having a pub.' The new pub had been in development for more than a year."
Comment Re:Countersuit (Score 1) 380
Lawyers dont get concerned, they get paid either way.
And lawyer letters are a dime a dozen. The only way you will get settlement is after it reaches court, by which time much has been spent by both parties in legal fees.
Comment Re:hit them back (Score 4, Insightful) 380
This would be the most obvious starting shot. But it sounds like this could be awfully expensive in lawyer fees.
Comment Nothing to see - move on (Score 1) 6
This has been happening across the web for months.
It is not news and certainly not worthy of a shashdot story.
Why "o-day expoloit is in the header I have no idea.
This story needs to be dropped.
Comment The guitar website in question (Score 5, Informative) 341
The article is rather lame and fails to mention the website
http://www.nextlevelguitar.com/
