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Comment Tycho Brahe... (Score 2) 229

by olrik666 (#35352940) Attached to: Full Bladder Improves Decision Making

Don't be too polite, and go if you have to!

"According to Kepler's first hand account, Tycho had refused to leave the banquet to relieve himself because it would have been a breach of etiquette.[20][21] After he had returned home he was no longer able to urinate, except, eventually, in very small quantities and with excruciating pain. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death

Comment RE: The Last Component To Fail In My Computer Was (Score 1) 715

by olrik666 (#33582996) Attached to: The Last Component To Fail In My Computer Was The...

... the CPU fan.

Seriously.

Once every 10 days or so, the CPU fan just stops out of the blue. The temperature rises, then the computer (under Vista) shuts down. But when I start the machine again, I have to manually coax the fan to start! And I have to wear a glove because I don't want the blades to cut me up. It can even take me a dozen tries until the fan gets going.

I know it's not the fan per se. It's an electrical problem somewhere, a mixed or bad signal sent to the fan.

Comment Re:Are you lying? (Score 3, Informative) 1078

by olrik666 (#30191330) Attached to: Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties?

I don't believe you for a second. Your statement may look good for slashdot, but one would expect all electronics to fail because of smoke. Are TVs, VCRs, DVDs, PVR's, fridges, sound systems, game systems, microwaves ovens, clocks, etc., failing because of smoke? Of course not.

Olrik (non-smoker)
Power

The Grid, Our Cars, and the Net 222

Posted by kdawson from the one-idea-to-link-them-all dept.
Wired is running a piece on the big idea of Robin Chase — the founder of Zipcar — that we need to build our smart power grid on open standards and include cars as nodes in a mesh network. "'Today in Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers and tanks and airplanes are running around using mesh networks,' said Chase. 'It works, it's secure, it's robust. If a node or device disappears, the network just reroutes the data.' And, perhaps most important, it's in motion. ... Build a smart electrical grid that uses Internet protocols and puts a mesh network device in every structure that has an electric meter. Sweep out the half dozen networks in our cars and replace them with an open, Internet-based platform. Add a mesh router. A nationwide mesh cloud will form, linking vehicles that can connect with one another and with the rest of the network. It's cooperative gain gone national, gone mobile, gone open."
Businesses

Tata Building $7,800 Apartments in Mumbai 242

Posted by kdawson from the piece-of-the-rock dept.
theodp writes "What do you do for an encore after you've shown the world it's possible to build a $2,000 car? Ratan Tata, head of India's giant Tata conglomerate, now plans to build, 30 miles outside of Mumbai, 1,200 tiny apartments that will sell for $7,800 to $13,400 each. Sure, they're small (floor plans), but keep in mind that you can pay a quarter of a million bucks for a 250-sq.-ft. studio in the East Village. Time reports that Tata has had to beef up security to handle the rush of buyers who want to plunk down their $200 deposits (yes, that's two hundred dollars!). Who would've thought you could make IKEA homes look pricey?" The Businessweek.com article says that the apartments are aimed at someone making $6,000 to $10,000 per year (Time says $5,000). In Mumbai, a call center operator with 10 to 20 years of experience barely qualifies at $6,400 annually. 70% of the country's 1.2 billion people live on 1/20 as much.

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