Well, one idea I heard was a combination of solar, nuclear and wind. Nuclear would provide base load, and with the new solar thermal stations you can very efficiently store heat in molten salt batteries. That should be enough for you to add power on days when wind doesn't quite cut it.
Australia is quite well suited for solar, I'd think.
I appreciate your interest in Indian politics and the possibly more objective viewpoint you have as a person outside the country, but I really must mention a few things:
The Congress is no angel. They have played what's called a soft Hindutva game as opposed to the BJP's more fundamentalist stance. The Congress is perceived as trying to play to both tunes, and failing at both.
The Congress is no stranger to pogroms. When the Prime Minister was assassinated, Congress politicians, Ministers, the government machinery set up to keep law and order, all tacitly or overtly supported the anti-Sikh violence. The Congress has since suppressed commission reports on the violence. They got away with it, nearly all of them.
Also, there are a lot of things that are wrong with Kerala. It is more of a case in bad governance and horrible land planning than a failure of Communist-style policies. Land reforms have worked well elsewhere in the country. They were necessary, because after the British Raj, a few people held a large amount of arable land, and everyone had to live a painful life as a share-cropper. In the prosperous states, land reforms have worked well, and even in West Bengal (the CPI(M) stronghold, where they've committed some horrible atrocities) the Communist Party stayed in power on the backs of some well thought out reforms.
Anyway, we digress, the issue in this particular case, though, seems to be the same that pervades all levels of Indian society: the old is automatically good, and must be shown 'respect'.
PS: Just thought this is necessary, seeing as I've been scathing. I love this country, which is why I criticise it so much.
There are many Communist parties. This is the Communist Party of India (Marxist) - the CPI(M) or CPM. It is known for doing stuff like this. They're leftist only in name, have neo-liberal policies in their own state, and oppose anything American because it is American.
In addition, they're idiots. They kill people who oppose them (Singur, Nandigram). Their so-called activists, burn, rape and pillage. I, a leftist, would choose the Congress Party of India over the CPM any day.
In addition, they have thin skins, criticising the CPI(M) is A Bad Thing. "Don't you have any respect? How dare you say something about such a respected party" No, fuck you. Lumpen crap.
Footnote: This is the case with most big things in India, the BJP and the Congress are no different, except that they don't hide what they are, and the Congress is a bit too wimpy to shut people up.
That's true, but they have to be something more than just indulgent. I've seen quite a few kids with rich parents who do nothing but watch TV, hang out and play on their PS3s.
I think after the level where the stuff they can provide matches the stuff you're really interested in (rather than just for the novelty) it doesn't make much of a difference.
If you attempt to link a bank account to paypal, it will charge a tiny amount of money to your account. Someone may be accidentally using the wrong number, or it may be more sinister. Sorry, but I don't know more.
Dude, it's not a cellphone. To quote from a comment I made elsewhere:
Dude, HP's Mininote 2133 is over a kilogram in weight. An average phone is around 100gm (the Nokia E71 is a tenth the weight of the Mininote 2133)
The Mininote is 1136.025 cc, the E71 is 65cc.
Anyway, can't you just Skype over a 3G chip if it's that important to you?
I found my Intel GMA 950 more pleasant to use on Linux for my current purposes (I play no games, but I like an accelerated desktop) than my nVidia 8400M GS. For some reason, while Firefox scrolled great on the old one, it's hell on the new one.
In addition, the 8400M and 8600M are vulnerable to heating issues, and I have already lost one motherboard to this. I don't know if ATi's Mobility 3850s are better, but these nVidia chips are bad, and if I'd known this and known if the GMA X3100 had better linux drivers I would have bought that instead.
The answer should be obvious. Slashdot has a narrow selection of geeks, most of whom are into computers per se, rather than in other 'geeky' stuff. Hence, most stuff not related directly to computers results in stuff like this.
You know, I'm going to tell you something. It may seem like the sensible option would be to take the space money and put it elsewhere, but that isn't true.
India's INSAT series have been very helpful in the past, and people were saying this when those were launched. ISRO has a nice commercial launch program and this will only improve perceptions of their ability and reliability.
That's all without pointing out the implicit false dichotomy in your comment. India can solve its problems, we, as a people, in incredible short sightedness, have chosen not to. Corruption is rampant, but the only people who can stand strong against it (the informed, educated middle class) is happy because they have good salaries. The poor cannot do anything, they have little power. The rich won't do anything, they benefit. We're in that lovely no-man's land where it is better for the individual to take what he's got and live it nicely. I don't mean this as a condemnation of any political philosophy, or India itself. I am Indian, and I am like this, and I can see that everyone else is, too.
Is that two wolves business even true in the United States? Any sane constitutional democracy has certain sections pertaining to the rights of minorities, and the restrictions on the majority from misusing any power they get from being more in number.
Perhaps use a method similar to recaptcha. Show two different readings. The first being your previous reading (which you've already got) and the other being your current reading. If they get the first one right, they'll likely get the second one. Show the second one to many people with a different first one, and take the mode.
I can't see the animation (no flash). Enough information to calculate Sensitivity of the Google tests assuming that whenever there's a spike, you count it as a positive?
I made a big mistake when first using Vista. I did not realise that Vista has that backup sort of feature, where it keeps a copy of your files somewhere else by default. Perhaps OP had this turned on and didn't know.
I will agree, though I am a great fan of Ubuntu _and_ Compiz Fusion. The thing that makes Firefox slow is the fact that Firefox on Linux (at least x86_64) is crap. That's just a fact. Scrolling down on this comment, for instance, takes a long time. This is due to a bug that is still open and marked Wishlist on Mozilla's bug tracker.
I am using Firefox on Ubuntu 8.04 on a Core 2 Duo T8300 with 3GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS. There is no difference if I turn off Compiz. Chrome on Vista glides, Firefox is like an albatross carrying coconut shells filled with rocks, but it works fine.
As for your GNOME issues, GNOME has a menu delay which is put there for god alone knows what reason. It is a gconf setting but I don't remember what it is called. In addition, the default GNOME menu is stupid. It won't open a menu until it has preloaded the icons. If you have a CD/DVD inserted with an icon, you have to wait for spin-up before the 'Places' menu will open. This sucks. It is also an open bug. Both these things almost make me want to learn how to program well enough to patch the issues, _but_ I've noticed that patches already exist and are simply not being merged.
I also know that now that I've made this comment, scrolling down is going to be impossible, so I'm going to have to close this tab. Bye everyone, I have my own/, filter.
PS: I have this sneaking suspicion that Ubuntu's Compiz packages are slower than the compiled ones I was using from Trevino's repository or something.
Not an American, and anyway I'm way too leftist for Obama to be a choice if I were an American, but unless I'm wrong, the answer was that Obama's plans would actually help 'Joe the Plumber'. Why would they want to hide that?
Well, in this particular case, they carried the instruments free of cost. But the success of the mission can mean that more companies are willing to entrust launching their satellites to the ISRO.
There's no such thing as an "implementation of UNIX". Standards are implemented, Unix was an OS, not a standard. Unix was licensed out to various companied, first from AT&T, later from Novell, and it was tweaked to those various parties' needs. AIX for example isn't IBM's "implementation" of System V, it started off as System V. AIX is what IBM did to SYS V. Same goes for the other Unices.
When OP said 'implementation of UNIX' it is possible that he was referring to the Single Unix Specification, which is a bunch of standards. If your OS is certified to follow those standards, you can call your OS 'Unix'.
If you're using the World Bank statistics, that is because of the weird way they measure the poverty line. I think that is not a good idea. Other people have made the point better than I can
Prevent religious conversions? Our constitution expressly guarantees the right to people to practice whatever religion they want, irrespective of whether or not they were born into it. That's what Freedom of Religion means.
That's a false dichotomy. India can feed all its people and do space missions. It doesn't.
I used to think the same as you, but the INSAT series was very beneficial to India, including the rural population. While a moon mission may not make as much sense, I think it is worthwhile because it gives the ISRO experience. And that is useful because the ISRO makes quite a bit of money from launching commercial satellites.
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Well, one idea I heard was a combination of solar, nuclear and wind. Nuclear would provide base load, and with the new solar thermal stations you can very efficiently store heat in molten salt batteries. That should be enough for you to add power on days when wind doesn't quite cut it.
Australia is quite well suited for solar, I'd think.
And India just beat Australia hollow in a test match last week. Just mentioning...
I appreciate your interest in Indian politics and the possibly more objective viewpoint you have as a person outside the country, but I really must mention a few things:
Also, there are a lot of things that are wrong with Kerala. It is more of a case in bad governance and horrible land planning than a failure of Communist-style policies. Land reforms have worked well elsewhere in the country. They were necessary, because after the British Raj, a few people held a large amount of arable land, and everyone had to live a painful life as a share-cropper. In the prosperous states, land reforms have worked well, and even in West Bengal (the CPI(M) stronghold, where they've committed some horrible atrocities) the Communist Party stayed in power on the backs of some well thought out reforms.
Anyway, we digress, the issue in this particular case, though, seems to be the same that pervades all levels of Indian society: the old is automatically good, and must be shown 'respect'.
PS: Just thought this is necessary, seeing as I've been scathing. I love this country, which is why I criticise it so much.
There are many Communist parties. This is the Communist Party of India (Marxist) - the CPI(M) or CPM. It is known for doing stuff like this. They're leftist only in name, have neo-liberal policies in their own state, and oppose anything American because it is American.
In addition, they're idiots. They kill people who oppose them (Singur, Nandigram). Their so-called activists, burn, rape and pillage. I, a leftist, would choose the Congress Party of India over the CPM any day.
In addition, they have thin skins, criticising the CPI(M) is A Bad Thing. "Don't you have any respect? How dare you say something about such a respected party" No, fuck you. Lumpen crap.
Footnote: This is the case with most big things in India, the BJP and the Congress are no different, except that they don't hide what they are, and the Congress is a bit too wimpy to shut people up.
The cold start is slower than warm start because you first start from hard drive, the second time you're probably loading from the cache in RAM.
That's true, but they have to be something more than just indulgent. I've seen quite a few kids with rich parents who do nothing but watch TV, hang out and play on their PS3s.
I think after the level where the stuff they can provide matches the stuff you're really interested in (rather than just for the novelty) it doesn't make much of a difference.
If you attempt to link a bank account to paypal, it will charge a tiny amount of money to your account. Someone may be accidentally using the wrong number, or it may be more sinister. Sorry, but I don't know more.
Anyway, can't you just Skype over a 3G chip if it's that important to you?
I found my Intel GMA 950 more pleasant to use on Linux for my current purposes (I play no games, but I like an accelerated desktop) than my nVidia 8400M GS. For some reason, while Firefox scrolled great on the old one, it's hell on the new one.
In addition, the 8400M and 8600M are vulnerable to heating issues, and I have already lost one motherboard to this. I don't know if ATi's Mobility 3850s are better, but these nVidia chips are bad, and if I'd known this and known if the GMA X3100 had better linux drivers I would have bought that instead.
The answer should be obvious. Slashdot has a narrow selection of geeks, most of whom are into computers per se, rather than in other 'geeky' stuff. Hence, most stuff not related directly to computers results in stuff like this.
Read the exoplanet story comments from a few days back, for instance.
You know, I'm going to tell you something. It may seem like the sensible option would be to take the space money and put it elsewhere, but that isn't true.
India's INSAT series have been very helpful in the past, and people were saying this when those were launched. ISRO has a nice commercial launch program and this will only improve perceptions of their ability and reliability.
That's all without pointing out the implicit false dichotomy in your comment. India can solve its problems, we, as a people, in incredible short sightedness, have chosen not to. Corruption is rampant, but the only people who can stand strong against it (the informed, educated middle class) is happy because they have good salaries. The poor cannot do anything, they have little power. The rich won't do anything, they benefit. We're in that lovely no-man's land where it is better for the individual to take what he's got and live it nicely. I don't mean this as a condemnation of any political philosophy, or India itself. I am Indian, and I am like this, and I can see that everyone else is, too.
Is that two wolves business even true in the United States? Any sane constitutional democracy has certain sections pertaining to the rights of minorities, and the restrictions on the majority from misusing any power they get from being more in number.
You're going to get bed sores, Rip Van Winkle.
Perhaps use a method similar to recaptcha. Show two different readings. The first being your previous reading (which you've already got) and the other being your current reading. If they get the first one right, they'll likely get the second one. Show the second one to many people with a different first one, and take the mode.
I can't see the animation (no flash). Enough information to calculate Sensitivity of the Google tests assuming that whenever there's a spike, you count it as a positive?
I made a big mistake when first using Vista. I did not realise that Vista has that backup sort of feature, where it keeps a copy of your files somewhere else by default. Perhaps OP had this turned on and didn't know.
I was one of those people, but we just got XP with a new computer. Anyway, I posted to say that DirectX 9.0c works on Windows 98, I had it installed.
I will agree, though I am a great fan of Ubuntu _and_ Compiz Fusion. The thing that makes Firefox slow is the fact that Firefox on Linux (at least x86_64) is crap. That's just a fact. Scrolling down on this comment, for instance, takes a long time. This is due to a bug that is still open and marked Wishlist on Mozilla's bug tracker.
/, filter.
I am using Firefox on Ubuntu 8.04 on a Core 2 Duo T8300 with 3GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS. There is no difference if I turn off Compiz. Chrome on Vista glides, Firefox is like an albatross carrying coconut shells filled with rocks, but it works fine.
As for your GNOME issues, GNOME has a menu delay which is put there for god alone knows what reason. It is a gconf setting but I don't remember what it is called. In addition, the default GNOME menu is stupid. It won't open a menu until it has preloaded the icons. If you have a CD/DVD inserted with an icon, you have to wait for spin-up before the 'Places' menu will open. This sucks. It is also an open bug. Both these things almost make me want to learn how to program well enough to patch the issues, _but_ I've noticed that patches already exist and are simply not being merged.
I also know that now that I've made this comment, scrolling down is going to be impossible, so I'm going to have to close this tab. Bye everyone, I have my own
PS: I have this sneaking suspicion that Ubuntu's Compiz packages are slower than the compiled ones I was using from Trevino's repository or something.
Not an American, and anyway I'm way too leftist for Obama to be a choice if I were an American, but unless I'm wrong, the answer was that Obama's plans would actually help 'Joe the Plumber'. Why would they want to hide that?
You get bonus points for going off on a tangent. But since we're playing that game, there was lots of support for Hitler from people in the USA too.
Well, in this particular case, they carried the instruments free of cost. But the success of the mission can mean that more companies are willing to entrust launching their satellites to the ISRO.
When OP said 'implementation of UNIX' it is possible that he was referring to the Single Unix Specification, which is a bunch of standards. If your OS is certified to follow those standards, you can call your OS 'Unix'.
If you're using the World Bank statistics, that is because of the weird way they measure the poverty line. I think that is not a good idea. Other people have made the point better than I can
Prevent religious conversions? Our constitution expressly guarantees the right to people to practice whatever religion they want, irrespective of whether or not they were born into it. That's what Freedom of Religion means.
That's a false dichotomy. India can feed all its people and do space missions. It doesn't.
I used to think the same as you, but the INSAT series was very beneficial to India, including the rural population. While a moon mission may not make as much sense, I think it is worthwhile because it gives the ISRO experience. And that is useful because the ISRO makes quite a bit of money from launching commercial satellites.