years.
One of the major problems of concentrated solar power is the heat - normal photovoltaics would melt. The benefit is that concentrated light also has better efficiency than the normal ~10-22% of normal solar power.
One of the traditional ways around the heat problem wasn't to use a photovoltacic as all. An energy farm in Australia uses dishes to focus the light and at the focal point places a stirling engine, with only the heat powering it.
Interesting stuff. I hope to have my own workable solar power system power my property one of these days.
Their _only_ legal responsibility is to make more money for the shareholder. And they'll do just that. If doing the ecologically sane, socially responsible, or ethical thing would cause 1% less profits, it's their legal _duty_ to _not_ do it.
I hate it when people write this bullshit. They also have to follow federal/state/local laws applicable to their area.
And doing the socially responsible thing may pay off in bigger profits. Many companies seem to agree with their donations to charities, etcetera.
Absolute principles like the one quoted suck absolutely.
Says on my Social Security Card that the card is not to be used for ID purposes, yet I am forced to show it to register a car in Ohio.
Is that warning an actual federal law or is just toothless fingerwagging?
Oftentimes, we underestimate the power of a well-enforced law. Our postal service is so secure relative to other countries because the laws passed on postal fraud ensure anyone tampering with our mail gets a stiff penalty, and even postal carriers get pounded by it making it effective. And I have seen postal services in other first world countries (Germany, Italy, England, Spain) where the level of reliability doesn't even compare because the penalties/enforcement is laughable.
OTOH, if you are talking about creating a braindead law to enforce problems that inherently can't be solved by laws, like spam, I agree.
Actually, I'd like to be able to verify my vote.
And if it's made into federal law that it's illegal to force anyone to show their vote, I think 99% of people would be safe.
That margin of error is much better than what we have now.
I don't get why people, when looking to upgrade from a severely flawed system, think that only an upgrade that is 100% perfect would suffice.
code reuse works best in languages like lisp and not so much in C/C++ family? I'm saying this mostly because in lisp I can drop down to almost any section of code instantly (most of the time, not always) while C/C++ IDEs tracking down a bug on large codebases can be a day long job frequently.
In the other languages, I often feel like treading in a minefield when reusing anything less than proven APIs or functions, let alone entire codebases.
Did you read the link that was posted a couple comments up?
Should I have? I was just agreeing with the parent poster.
I can't say that any hungarian notation has provided me with the least help (though it does nicely to lengthen a variable name with a few odd letters) except for maybe the windows handle.
By best, I mean closest. And it's only a single blade! Plus, with a leather strop, it stays sharp for several months before being put on Japanese wet stone (or Arkansas oil stone) for sharpening. It also doesn't clog up. But the cons are initial expense (no recurring expenses, a blade can stay with you for life), it takes more time, and you can cut yourself bad (if you pay no attention), and just learning it. The other pros are less trash, it's gets really close, less razorburns (at least for me).
I mostly straight shave these days, have a disposable on hand when I need to it quick.
I have a course beard and a I found the twin bladed razors the best, the single bladed disposable usually are too stiff, and anything above >= 3 blades just clog up too easily as it is a tradeoff between blades and distance. I pretty much tried every disposable on the market before becoming a straight razor shaver. The old style (1900's) single blade gillettes (early metal with disposable blades) do a pretty good too, or something like the roll's razor.
A single/double blade can do the job properly just as easily. It depends more on the sharpness, hardness and the quality (edge retention) of the blade, the angle it attacks your beard than then the number of blades. All that is is marketing.
Shaving though is always going to be a pain. It's good for you because it exfoliates your face daily, reducing aging speed, though sometimes I wish I could afford lasering my beard off.
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years. One of the major problems of concentrated solar power is the heat - normal photovoltaics would melt. The benefit is that concentrated light also has better efficiency than the normal ~10-22% of normal solar power. One of the traditional ways around the heat problem wasn't to use a photovoltacic as all. An energy farm in Australia uses dishes to focus the light and at the focal point places a stirling engine, with only the heat powering it. Interesting stuff. I hope to have my own workable solar power system power my property one of these days.
Is that warning an actual federal law or is just toothless fingerwagging?
Oftentimes, we underestimate the power of a well-enforced law. Our postal service is so secure relative to other countries because the laws passed on postal fraud ensure anyone tampering with our mail gets a stiff penalty, and even postal carriers get pounded by it making it effective. And I have seen postal services in other first world countries (Germany, Italy, England, Spain) where the level of reliability doesn't even compare because the penalties/enforcement is laughable.
OTOH, if you are talking about creating a braindead law to enforce problems that inherently can't be solved by laws, like spam, I agree.
Yeah, must be the lambda calculus heritage....
Actually, I'd like to be able to verify my vote. And if it's made into federal law that it's illegal to force anyone to show their vote, I think 99% of people would be safe. That margin of error is much better than what we have now. I don't get why people, when looking to upgrade from a severely flawed system, think that only an upgrade that is 100% perfect would suffice.
Since he knows noting of the German tax system, the answer would be: Not a damn thing!
code reuse works best in languages like lisp and not so much in C/C++ family? I'm saying this mostly because in lisp I can drop down to almost any section of code instantly (most of the time, not always) while C/C++ IDEs tracking down a bug on large codebases can be a day long job frequently.
In the other languages, I often feel like treading in a minefield when reusing anything less than proven APIs or functions, let alone entire codebases.
Or that is one way to justify it.
Each edit of wiki is saved, so you can reference the date in the history tab and get the article as it appeared at the specified time.
By best, I mean closest. And it's only a single blade! Plus, with a leather strop, it stays sharp for several months before being put on Japanese wet stone (or Arkansas oil stone) for sharpening. It also doesn't clog up. But the cons are initial expense (no recurring expenses, a blade can stay with you for life), it takes more time, and you can cut yourself bad (if you pay no attention), and just learning it. The other pros are less trash, it's gets really close, less razorburns (at least for me).
I mostly straight shave these days, have a disposable on hand when I need to it quick.
I have a course beard and a I found the twin bladed razors the best, the single bladed disposable usually are too stiff, and anything above >= 3 blades just clog up too easily as it is a tradeoff between blades and distance. I pretty much tried every disposable on the market before becoming a straight razor shaver. The old style (1900's) single blade gillettes (early metal with disposable blades) do a pretty good too, or something like the roll's razor.
A single/double blade can do the job properly just as easily. It depends more on the sharpness, hardness and the quality (edge retention) of the blade, the angle it attacks your beard than then the number of blades. All that is is marketing.
Shaving though is always going to be a pain. It's good for you because it exfoliates your face daily, reducing aging speed, though sometimes I wish I could afford lasering my beard off.