I think it is a fair point that folks may be using an OS they did not choose. I was replying to a post that said all slashdoters are linux users. I've always used unix for work (though sometimes VMS) and for a while now I've had a windows box at home for the kids and for doing some lame stuff, like taxes. So, having linux at home is more of a luxury for me with more than one computer now. My son still bugs be to use the XP partition on this box but I rarely use it myself. It has just been that better computers always ran *nix and X was always way ahead of windows or apple's stuff. For running a browser, it probably does not matter what OS you use, though I find that there are some problems using a 64 bit browser with 32 bit plugins on linux. Don't know if the problem is general though. Still, since I was happy with mosaic I don't care that much. I just hack it again and it starts working
again. It bugs me a little that I know what people are using. In repayment, I'll say that when you see the 2048x2048 screen in your stats, that's me. -- Solar is THE energy source: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
Most of the traffic on my blog http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-is-real-e nergy.html comes from slashdot. There might be a bias that windows users are more interested in renewable energy but I kind of
doubt it. The feedburner ratios wrt to XP in the last month are
XP: 1
Linux:0.402
Mac:0.179
Vista:0.089
W2000:0.069
And a few others
George Monbiot gives an estimate that wind speeds rise by about 1 m/s for every 100 km you go offshore (Heat p. 105). This makes wind cheaper the
further out you go since you need less equipment to generate the same amount of power. He also points out (p. 113) that when wind farms are 1000 km apart their power output is correlated at only 10%. This means that
it is very difficult to have no wind power if you have diversified your sources.
Renewable energy systems look very different from our current systems because there is no fuel cost. A pure renewable system is going to be scaled to meet peak demand and then there will be extra energy available most of the time (off peak). This does not mean it will go to waste. There are many things we might do if some one said "here, please take this power off my
hands." Growing crops in old coal mines comes to mind. Year round production, no chance of frost, can go closed cycle on the water, you just need to
power lights during off peak when energy is basically free. In a pure renewable energy system we don't ask "How can we get energy?" but rather "How can
we get rid of it?" --
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I was gillnetting for salmon in Puget Sound years ago. The net was monofilament and meshed for sockeye. At night, a grey whale swam up then down the whole half mile length of net. They know what is in the water.
It is the long term view that argues most strongly against nuclear power. Ladening nuclear waste on so many future generations is irresponsible, especially since in do so we'll use up all the fuel and leave none for them.
Journals seem to be insisting on LaTeX so that is what I use, but LaTeX attaches figures to text with breakable bungee cords. If you want control of layout, then TeX does a better job. Having the figure being discussed on the same page as the text that discusses it is much much better.
Violence can eventually exhaust itself, but you pick examples in the middle of the cycle: if not for the violent usurpations of England, the
colonists would not have sought independence. The Bourbons were also violent despots. Non-violence accompished specific aims in particular circumstances and tends to be much less haphazard than violent methods.
Thanks, still does not answer the question though. Sun had open sourced a number of things, but not everything. I don't know which catagory this falls in. What are google hits? -- Solar power with no rate increases: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
The license is pretty opaque to me. It does mention no decompilation or reverse engineering. It also says that it is part of the OpenOffice suite and it might contain open source components. -- Get solar power with no permit hassles: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
I feel their are two areas where you are a little confused. First, an economic boycott hurts the side that is imposing it more. You've got miles to walk to work in a bus boycott and you've got to spend you're time on cottage industries rather than modernization in a textiles boycott. The aim is to show the other side why they are behaving immorally so that they internalize this and cease the immoral behavior. Ulitmately this provided room for reconcilliation and the breaking down of the prejudices that caused the problem in the first place. The aim is improved and more prosperous relations.
In the second instance, you are confusing state level sanctions with non-violence. This is not the case. State level sanctions are carried out by entities which can back up the sanctions regime with force. Sanctions are violent, just less violent for the side that imposes them than the next
alternative. In the case of genocide, where the UN has a clear mandate to use force, sanctions are a copout. The member states do not want to risk
their forces so they go for sanctions. It hurts them less, just the opposite of a non-violent economic boycott. -- Solar power at grid rates: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
I gave up on Word a long time ago when I had a hard time writing ascii files that didn't have non-standard characters in them. There just didn't
seem to be a smooth devolution to something that worked well with a text editor with better marco capabilities (emacs in my case). So the program
just didn't seem all that useful. Also the symbols were hunt and peck off a drop down. Very slow. So, to me, this development means I might try
out Word again since I've been using StarOffice for simpler things like letters and such. How much does Word cost? -- Solar power with no installation fee: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
Violence works to inspire more violence. Look at your own examples. The goal of non-violent movements is peace. The aim is to remove the causes of conflict. When things turn violent, one is only addressing the symptoms of conflict. In Iraq, the efforts to work on causes are not succeeding largely
owing to the initial violence. It is hard to build a civil society when large elements are seeking vengence against you.
Non-violence works by changing hearts. The aim of Ghandi's work was to get the British people to agree that their empire was wrong in principle. The aim
of King's work was to get America to live up to its ideals. With these kinds of goals, taken together with the realization that voilence begets violence,
non-violence turns our to be the best method. Your assertion that there was an implied threat in the mass movements is correct, but it was not that guns would be next, but that the economic threats could be carried out. Bus companies could not operate or textile factories would have no market. This link may help you: http://paceebene.org/pace/principles-of-creative-n onviolence/martin-luther-king-jr-s-princ --
Photons for peace: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
Slashdot Mirror
I think it is a fair point that folks may be using an OS they did not choose. I was replying to a post that said all slashdoters are linux users. I've always used unix for work (though sometimes VMS) and for a while now I've had a windows box at home for the kids and for doing some lame stuff, like taxes. So, having linux at home is more of a luxury for me with more than one computer now. My son still bugs be to use the XP partition on this box but I rarely use it myself. It has just been that better computers always ran *nix and X was always way ahead of windows or apple's stuff. For running a browser, it probably does not matter what OS you use, though I find that there are some problems using a 64 bit browser with 32 bit plugins on linux. Don't know if the problem is general though. Still, since I was happy with mosaic I don't care that much. I just hack it again and it starts working again. It bugs me a little that I know what people are using. In repayment, I'll say that when you see the 2048x2048 screen in your stats, that's me.s -selling-solar.html
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Old Louis had a few problems that led to his downfall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_French_ Revolution#Famine. Failure to ration in those circumstances seems fairly violent.
Most of the traffic on my blog http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-is-real-e nergy.html comes from slashdot. There might be a bias that windows users are more interested in renewable energy but I kind of
doubt it. The feedburner ratios wrt to XP in the last month are
s -selling-solar.html
XP: 1
Linux:0.402
Mac:0.179
Vista:0.089
W2000:0.069
And a few others
Feedburner seems to miss quite a lot, but unless it is really undercounting linux, it would look like slashdot readers prefer XP as a plurality.
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Well rail guns are getting suborbital for small payloads so if you get self-assembly down you could use those already.
t .html.
Bucky Fuller was interested in a worldwide renewables grid. It seems to me that getting going on the infrastructure would be a good idea: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/03/coast-to-coas
George Monbiot gives an estimate that wind speeds rise by about 1 m/s for every 100 km you go offshore (Heat p. 105). This makes wind cheaper the further out you go since you need less equipment to generate the same amount of power. He also points out (p. 113) that when wind farms are 1000 km apart their power output is correlated at only 10%. This means that it is very difficult to have no wind power if you have diversified your sources.
s -selling-solar.html
Renewable energy systems look very different from our current systems because there is no fuel cost. A pure renewable system is going to be scaled to meet peak demand and then there will be extra energy available most of the time (off peak). This does not mean it will go to waste. There are many things we might do if some one said "here, please take this power off my hands." Growing crops in old coal mines comes to mind. Year round production, no chance of frost, can go closed cycle on the water, you just need to power lights during off peak when energy is basically free. In a pure renewable energy system we don't ask "How can we get energy?" but rather "How can we get rid of it?"
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The combination sounds new to me. Here are some ideas on the sea turbine bit: http://ocsenergy.anl.gov/guide/current/index.cfm. s -selling-solar.html
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I was gillnetting for salmon in Puget Sound years ago. The net was monofilament and meshed for sockeye. At night, a grey whale swam up then down the whole half mile length of net. They know what is in the water.
s -selling-solar.html
On birds, the very large wind turbines turn quite slowly and this has proved much better for birds since thy fly faster than the blades move.
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It is the long term view that argues most strongly against nuclear power. Ladening nuclear waste on so many future generations is irresponsible, especially since in do so we'll use up all the fuel and leave none for them.
National Geographic reported a day later that the storms are not a threat: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/07 0706-rovers-dust.html.s -selling-solar.html
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The rovers were designed for a short mission. The chance of this happening in a short time is low so it would be over design to include more storage. Solar power works well in the inner solar system, and it may be getting going for the outer solar system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft). It beats sending fuel when it works.s -selling-solar.html
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Thanks, sometimes I know how to spell Gandhi and sometimes I am misled.
Journals seem to be insisting on LaTeX so that is what I use, but LaTeX attaches figures to text with breakable bungee cords. If you want control of layout, then TeX does a better job. Having the figure being discussed on the same page as the text that discusses it is much much better.
s -selling-solar.html
I get as far as editing bounding boxes with postscript. I think I've changed a few symbols as well. --
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Violence can eventually exhaust itself, but you pick examples in the middle of the cycle: if not for the violent usurpations of England, the colonists would not have sought independence. The Bourbons were also violent despots. Non-violence accompished specific aims in particular circumstances and tends to be much less haphazard than violent methods.
Thanks, still does not answer the question though. Sun had open sourced a number of things, but not everything. I don't know which catagory this falls in. What are google hits?s -selling-solar.html
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Thanks, I guess I'll skip that. Sounds like it is a fixer-upper anyway.s -selling-solar.html
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Humm... Maybe I'll wait and see if it is included on a computer I buy second-hand. It is probably not worth it just to tryout a plugin.s -selling-solar.html
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TeX is better.
The license is pretty opaque to me. It does mention no decompilation or reverse engineering. It also says that it is part of the OpenOffice suite and it might contain open source components.s -selling-solar.html
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I feel their are two areas where you are a little confused. First, an economic boycott hurts the side that is imposing it more. You've got miles to walk to work in a bus boycott and you've got to spend you're time on cottage industries rather than modernization in a textiles boycott. The aim is to show the other side why they are behaving immorally so that they internalize this and cease the immoral behavior. Ulitmately this provided room for reconcilliation and the breaking down of the prejudices that caused the problem in the first place. The aim is improved and more prosperous relations.
s -selling-solar.html
In the second instance, you are confusing state level sanctions with non-violence. This is not the case. State level sanctions are carried out by entities which can back up the sanctions regime with force. Sanctions are violent, just less violent for the side that imposes them than the next alternative. In the case of genocide, where the UN has a clear mandate to use force, sanctions are a copout. The member states do not want to risk their forces so they go for sanctions. It hurts them less, just the opposite of a non-violent economic boycott.
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Looking at the download site, I see a .exe file. I can't find out more without accepting the licence agreement. Is the plug-in open source?s -selling-solar.html
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Yes, it won't be successful it it does not.
I gave up on Word a long time ago when I had a hard time writing ascii files that didn't have non-standard characters in them. There just didn't seem to be a smooth devolution to something that worked well with a text editor with better marco capabilities (emacs in my case). So the program just didn't seem all that useful. Also the symbols were hunt and peck off a drop down. Very slow. So, to me, this development means I might try out Word again since I've been using StarOffice for simpler things like letters and such. How much does Word cost?s -selling-solar.html
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Wow, if this won't boost the usability of Word what will? I might even try it now.s -selling-solar.html
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Violence works to inspire more violence. Look at your own examples. The goal of non-violent movements is peace. The aim is to remove the causes of conflict. When things turn violent, one is only addressing the symptoms of conflict. In Iraq, the efforts to work on causes are not succeeding largely owing to the initial violence. It is hard to build a civil society when large elements are seeking vengence against you.
n onviolence/martin-luther-king-jr-s-princ s -selling-solar.html
Non-violence works by changing hearts. The aim of Ghandi's work was to get the British people to agree that their empire was wrong in principle. The aim of King's work was to get America to live up to its ideals. With these kinds of goals, taken together with the realization that voilence begets violence, non-violence turns our to be the best method. Your assertion that there was an implied threat in the mass movements is correct, but it was not that guns would be next, but that the economic threats could be carried out. Bus companies could not operate or textile factories would have no market. This link may help you: http://paceebene.org/pace/principles-of-creative-
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