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My office already uses motion sensors on the lighting and thermostats on the heating/aircom. Computers are automatically hibernated after a period of inactivity. What else can be done to save energy?

Miles Kane has a pair - where did he get them? Is there a special shop that sells them?

Looking for a good Yoga class somewhere near Egham, Surrey. Anyone know of a good class with a good instructor and reasonable rates?

Let's be honest - if people really could have whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted it, in near limitless quantities they would replicate tonnes of high-carb snacks and junk - never mind Earl Grey tea - it would be Mars Bars and Hot Chocolate for breakfast lunch and tea.

In which case everyone on board would be really fat and have terrible complexion, so I hypothesise that replicators are in fact FAKE and someone actually makes the cup of tea in the galley then uses STS transport to beam it into the "replicator", it's just clever editing on the part of the post-production team that makes it 'look' like it's instantaneous.

Assuming I made a machine that could reduce a human (or any other living thing) in a still-living state to about 5% of it's oroginal size, and this was achieved by discarding 95% of the mass - what would be the physical implications? For instance, if the light receptors are the same size in relation to the eyeball the eye, but they have 95% less molecules in them, would the minituarised person still be able to see clearly? Also if the muscles were the same comapritive density, buy 95% samller would they still work at the same rate, or would the miniature person be able to run faster/jump higher?

there are capital letters, look -> HELLO! but there are only lower case numbers... WHY?

The obvious ones are "because he sucked" and "because he was a pain in the neck" can anyone think of better ones?

in the Mr Men universe

Recycling only really took off in the mid/late 90's up until then, all household waste was squashed and buried. There must be huge deposits of recyclable materials all over the place - why can't we mine them and recycle the metal/plastic/glass that is buried there?

I want to print and make cards from a papercraft website that sells designs http://www.craftsuprint.com/default.cfm?r=785829 the photo paper i have is glossy and printed with a logo on the back, plain a4 is too thin and the print quality is too poor. Where can I get good quality photo-card that is matt and plain on the back?

he is hidden on this site somewhere http://www.craftsuprint.com/default.cfm?r=785829

Water, Sugar, Water, Chestnut, Yellow Bean Sauce (5%) (Water, Soya Bean (22%), Wheat Flour, Salt), Modified Starch, Barley Malt Vinegar, Sesame Oil, Soy Sauce (Water, Sugar, Salt, Soya Bean Extract, Wheat Flour), Ginger Strands (1%), Garlic Purée, Five Spice Powder, Ginger Purée, Colour (Plain Caramel), Red Chilli, Colour (Anthocyanin), Natural Flavouring

I just bought a plastic snow shovel from Homebase, but was asked for ID to prove I was over 18 before they would sell it to me. I am struggling to come up with any reason why this might be a restricted item? Perhaps it was a mistake, or maybe there is something more sinister about this shiny red scoop than meets the eye.

I have a JAR file that runs a simple bit of Java that accepts a parameter from the command line. It works if I type

>JAVA -jar program.jar parameter

but if I just type

>program.jar parameter

it doesn't work.

I can run other Java programs like this that don't accept parameters and they run ok. I can't work out what the problem is, It doesn't seem to make any sense. Is it possible to run JAR files and pass parameters without the java -jar bit or is that the only way?

(I am using eclipse ganymede to build the JAR files)

I think so. Luckily I am too busy to find out.

Precisely how long does a universal moment last?

I can write programs in PERL and VB and I know a little PASCAL I would really like to learn C but there seem to be lots of different versions C++, C#, managed code, unmanaged code, .NET - which is the best path to go down when starting from scratch?