There are more than sufficient resources to use renreable energy exclusively but we need to think differently about how power is managed. In my
opinion, the base-load concept needs to be transformed into a fully demand-response-supply-management concept where stored renewable energy is held in reserve to
handle time domain demand-supply imbalance. Here is an example of what I've been thinking about on this: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/04/smelling-salts .html.
This program recognizes the higher value of peak power production and this pays a premium (in Canadian dollars) for power as it is delivered to the grid.
There is also a premium for non-polluting energy here. In some places in the US (in 41 states) utlities are required to credit the extra power you produce
yourself at retail rates. If there is no time-of-use metering, then there is no particular recognition of solar power's timely production profile. This way of doing things is called net metering http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/03/net-metering.h tml.
If your father lives in a net metering state, he might be interested in an in between solution of renting the equipment rather than renting out his roof.
This can be done in a way that fixes the rates for up to 25 years, has maintenance included, and does not have the big upfront cost of purchasing a system. You can learn more about this by following the links at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html.
I wrote to her once. I made a special effort to find out who she was so that I could address her directly. I wanted to be sure that a student of
mine got in to MIT because I thought he'd do very well there. He was working in my lab and had shown quite a lot of understanding and skill.
This news affects me but I'm not sure how. My student was accepted and perhaps my letter had an effect. If so, Jones showed good judgement
according to my lights. The qualifications for college councilor, admissions officer or dean of admissions are pretty different from teacher
or researcher. Basically you need skill in discerning where someone will be in four years, not where they think they'll be or where you hope they'll
be. This is the sort of thing that probably can't be taught so all of her qualifications for her job were expereince.
But, when I went to the effort to address here personally, I thought that I was writing to a person of integrity and I feel strange to hear that
this is now in question. Recommendations and such have to be based on trust and that pretty much has to be mutual among all parties. The story
feels just a little more bizarre because of all this.
OK, I get it that different people designed the system. But it is not the case that different people sold the system. When you sell a house
(that someone else built) and fail to disclose that the basement floods every year, you are responsible for that failure. They made representations
that the systems are reliable and reaped the profits. You can hardly blame the purchaser in this case for not checking out the system since it
was kept hidden and the seller was trading on its banking reputaion to gain market share ("don't go with that other company, they don't have our
experience with secure accurate machines that interface with the public"). Those are the people, the ones who sold the machines.
What is M$' liability? Surely they were collecting licensing fees and knew what the machines were being used for. Given their warning, should they not have refused to license? Does their warning get them off the hook? Didn't work for Napster....
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What is M$' liability? Surely they were collecting licensing fees and knew what the machines were being used for. Given their warning, should
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I guess you're right, my experience of reliability is not an adequate sample. I have had a chance to partially check that my vote is counted
a few times. Most recently, our candidate for state comptroller was removed from the ballot for no apparant reason. So, I wrote him back in
and saw a vote counted in my precinct. That the system worked in one instance does not mean that it worked overall. He's a fun candidate, won't
take any contributions over $100 when he runs and he gives great interviews.
Yes, Finally Understanding Deceit or Fraudulantly Undermining Dependability. These guys tried to hide that they were peddling junk by saying it
was proprietary. There are no accurate time stamps. You can verify corruption as has just happened, but you can't recover from it. Every single
elections official that signed a contract with Diebold needs to be investigated. If there were no kickbacks, and they really knew nothing of
this, then this surely is fraud.
I've had very few banking errors using ATMs and I'm quite sure that I am not the only user on the system when I do use them. Why would
this company have any trouble with this kind of operation? Is it because there is no accounting so they don't bother to get it right? --
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That's right, but this also might be better. True, you don't get to reuse the extra keyboards and monitors if the problem is dead motherboards, but
what if the problem is dead disks? A motherboard with ethernet and graphics is going to work OK here and the solution looks pretty nice in terms of
educational software pre-installed. This also looks nice from the system admin side and gives flexibility. If a working HD dies, your not out functionality of two seats you still have funtionality while you wait for donations that bring in a replacement HD. You can pick your two best boxes
for a server and a backup, put together RAIDs and have robust reliability while only losing one seat at a time to motherboard, graphics card or ethernet
card failure. This is easy to deal with by having a few working but slower motherboard systems in a closet for standby.
This level of salvage is a labor of love. There is quite a lot of open box work happening anyway. I agree with yours and other posts that X11 is the
way to go. There are a lot of schools that get junk as donations and this kind of creativity is something to be admired. --
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Well, pre-emptive self-defense is a euphemism for starting a war of aggression and becoming a thug yourself. You seem to be arguing that the
thing to do is to go shoot up the prisoners in the jail because there might be a jail break someday.
I think you might be justified in feeling betrayed if some promise had been broken, but in fact promises have been kept on the european side and it
is we who have left the framework of agreements we negotiated.
But perhaps I misunderstand you. You seem to imply that there had been some attack on us by Iraq when you say someone has set fire to your house. Are
you confused about the facts here?
Hummm... European support would have helped and might have led to success? Seems to me that seeking their support might have been a wise move then.
I think they were asking that the arms inspectors finish their work. When the Secretary of State called the Iraq Arms Delcaration a pack of lies
before it had even been delivered, they may have felt a little uncomfortable since they have dealt before with a nation that struts around making false
allegations on no evidence to cause a war.
In any case, some European nations did provide help. It is amazing that Blair is still in power, most are not. Yet, it seems a little ungrateful of you to dismiss this assistance. This war has been completely poisonous
for the US. Hope, optimism and virtue are things of the future so sullied have they been that they are denied to the present.
My dad worked on the fuel transfer issue for a while some time back. If I recall there was an idea that fusion products would would end up in
a different part of the plasma and so could "just" be skimmed off. Would that we had such problems to deal with in more than theory.
Inertial confinement always seemed to me to be worth pursuing if only to become versed in the precise application of power. The developments
on getting very good wave fronts for very powerful pulses have been worth the effort regardless of the final success of the programs. Other
applications of the present circuit are numerous. One might use it to remotely steer a cloud of TiO to precisely alter the albedo of an asteroid
to change its course for example.
The NYT is reporting that Cheney's Spokeswoman says he "is focused on the serious issues facing our nation."
in repsonse to the news. Presumably he is just too busy to be impeached. Nixon should have used that one instead
of protesting his innocence. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/us/24brfs-IMPEAC HMENTE_BRF.html
A bigger building, yes, but we'd get smaller goverment. I'd expect one new law about every 3 years. Two minutes of debate per representative
would be about 200 hours. Then they'd have to read the role. It's a little like requiring the Sectretary of the Treasury to sign his full name
to the currency to keep inflation in check;-)
Another benefit is that they'd have time to read the legislation they are voting on.
Self-sustaining is the goal of magnetic confinement: the fusion keeps the plasma hot. For inertial confinement, you need to zap the pellet and what
you want is for the energy harvested from the reaction to be larger than the energy input for the zapping. The article is about a circuit which works
with two capacitors, yes. It is significant because they are able to make this setup go a lot faster than the lot setup.
Well, yes I was joking a little bit. The level of effort for fusion has been scaled to estimates of when oil, gas and coal run out so it is
not too supprising that it would take a long time. The point is that progress is indeed happening and it looks to be about on track. --
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With about 6000 congress people, districts will be too fine grained to make gerrymandering possible. Each district will actually represent a
fairly cohesive community.
In your example you seem to forget that this is ranked choice voting. Suppose there are three candidates and as you suggest two are similar in their
positions. Suppose that there is first choice voting that is split about three ways and one of the two similar candidates is eliminated. The second
choice votes are then distributed among the remaining two candidates. It is much more likely that those second choices will be for the other similar
candidate rather than for the disparate candidate. This is the advantage of IRV, it produces a majority result and eliminates plurality results that
lead to charges of spoiling. Charges of spoiling are silly since parties and candidates don't own votes so this is not a good reason to go for IRV unless
your the sort who likes to make those kind of charges. The largest strength of IRV is that it decerns what voters actually want better in multicandidate
elections without having a potentially different electorate in sequential runoff schemes.
If you only want to bring out evidence, would it not be more expedient to ask the Senate Ethics Committee to consider expelling the President of the
Senate for unbecomming conduct? That's what I did, but Senator Boxer does not read her email if it is not from California. The house has work to do
so I'd think handling this in a Senate committee would be time better spent.
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There are more than sufficient resources to use renreable energy exclusively but we need to think differently about how power is managed. In my opinion, the base-load concept needs to be transformed into a fully demand-response-supply-management concept where stored renewable energy is held in reserve to handle time domain demand-supply imbalance. Here is an example of what I've been thinking about on this: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/04/smelling-salts .html.
s .html.s -selling-solar.html
The issue of liquid fuels is a little different but there are some developments described here: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesi
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This program recognizes the higher value of peak power production and this pays a premium (in Canadian dollars) for power as it is delivered to the grid. There is also a premium for non-polluting energy here. In some places in the US (in 41 states) utlities are required to credit the extra power you produce yourself at retail rates. If there is no time-of-use metering, then there is no particular recognition of solar power's timely production profile. This way of doing things is called net metering http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/03/net-metering.h tml.
s -selling-solar.html.
If your father lives in a net metering state, he might be interested in an in between solution of renting the equipment rather than renting out his roof. This can be done in a way that fixes the rates for up to 25 years, has maintenance included, and does not have the big upfront cost of purchasing a system. You can learn more about this by following the links at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
I wrote to her once. I made a special effort to find out who she was so that I could address her directly. I wanted to be sure that a student of mine got in to MIT because I thought he'd do very well there. He was working in my lab and had shown quite a lot of understanding and skill.
This news affects me but I'm not sure how. My student was accepted and perhaps my letter had an effect. If so, Jones showed good judgement according to my lights. The qualifications for college councilor, admissions officer or dean of admissions are pretty different from teacher or researcher. Basically you need skill in discerning where someone will be in four years, not where they think they'll be or where you hope they'll be. This is the sort of thing that probably can't be taught so all of her qualifications for her job were expereince.
But, when I went to the effort to address here personally, I thought that I was writing to a person of integrity and I feel strange to hear that this is now in question. Recommendations and such have to be based on trust and that pretty much has to be mutual among all parties. The story feels just a little more bizarre because of all this.
That's death by a thousand cuts. Next we'll be back to the fleas of a thousand camels. Hope they don't start arresting the kids with cooties.
OK, I get it that different people designed the system. But it is not the case that different people sold the system. When you sell a house (that someone else built) and fail to disclose that the basement floods every year, you are responsible for that failure. They made representations that the systems are reliable and reaped the profits. You can hardly blame the purchaser in this case for not checking out the system since it was kept hidden and the seller was trading on its banking reputaion to gain market share ("don't go with that other company, they don't have our experience with secure accurate machines that interface with the public"). Those are the people, the ones who sold the machines.
What is M$' liability? Surely they were collecting licensing fees and knew what the machines were being used for. Given their warning, should they not have refused to license? Does their warning get them off the hook? Didn't work for Napster....s -selling-solar.html
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Oops, wrong thread.
What is M$' liability? Surely they were collecting licensing fees and knew what the machines were being used for. Given their warning, should they not have refused to license? Does their warning get them off the hook? Didn't work for Napster....s -selling-solar.html
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I guess you're right, my experience of reliability is not an adequate sample. I have had a chance to partially check that my vote is counted a few times. Most recently, our candidate for state comptroller was removed from the ballot for no apparant reason. So, I wrote him back in and saw a vote counted in my precinct. That the system worked in one instance does not mean that it worked overall. He's a fun candidate, won't take any contributions over $100 when he runs and he gives great interviews.
Yes, Finally Understanding Deceit or Fraudulantly Undermining Dependability. These guys tried to hide that they were peddling junk by saying it was proprietary. There are no accurate time stamps. You can verify corruption as has just happened, but you can't recover from it. Every single elections official that signed a contract with Diebold needs to be investigated. If there were no kickbacks, and they really knew nothing of this, then this surely is fraud.
I've had very few banking errors using ATMs and I'm quite sure that I am not the only user on the system when I do use them. Why would this company have any trouble with this kind of operation? Is it because there is no accounting so they don't bother to get it right?s -selling-solar.html
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That's right, but this also might be better. True, you don't get to reuse the extra keyboards and monitors if the problem is dead motherboards, but what if the problem is dead disks? A motherboard with ethernet and graphics is going to work OK here and the solution looks pretty nice in terms of educational software pre-installed. This also looks nice from the system admin side and gives flexibility. If a working HD dies, your not out functionality of two seats you still have funtionality while you wait for donations that bring in a replacement HD. You can pick your two best boxes for a server and a backup, put together RAIDs and have robust reliability while only losing one seat at a time to motherboard, graphics card or ethernet card failure. This is easy to deal with by having a few working but slower motherboard systems in a closet for standby.
This level of salvage is a labor of love. There is quite a lot of open box work happening anyway. I agree with yours and other posts that X11 is the way to go. There are a lot of schools that get junk as donations and this kind of creativity is something to be admired.s -selling-solar.html
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Well, pre-emptive self-defense is a euphemism for starting a war of aggression and becoming a thug yourself. You seem to be arguing that the thing to do is to go shoot up the prisoners in the jail because there might be a jail break someday.
I think you might be justified in feeling betrayed if some promise had been broken, but in fact promises have been kept on the european side and it is we who have left the framework of agreements we negotiated.
But perhaps I misunderstand you. You seem to imply that there had been some attack on us by Iraq when you say someone has set fire to your house. Are you confused about the facts here?
Hummm... European support would have helped and might have led to success? Seems to me that seeking their support might have been a wise move then. I think they were asking that the arms inspectors finish their work. When the Secretary of State called the Iraq Arms Delcaration a pack of lies before it had even been delivered, they may have felt a little uncomfortable since they have dealt before with a nation that struts around making false allegations on no evidence to cause a war.
In any case, some European nations did provide help. It is amazing that Blair is still in power, most are not. Yet, it seems a little ungrateful of you to dismiss this assistance. This war has been completely poisonous for the US. Hope, optimism and virtue are things of the future so sullied have they been that they are denied to the present.
My dad worked on the fuel transfer issue for a while some time back. If I recall there was an idea that fusion products would would end up in a different part of the plasma and so could "just" be skimmed off. Would that we had such problems to deal with in more than theory.
Inertial confinement always seemed to me to be worth pursuing if only to become versed in the precise application of power. The developments on getting very good wave fronts for very powerful pulses have been worth the effort regardless of the final success of the programs. Other applications of the present circuit are numerous. One might use it to remotely steer a cloud of TiO to precisely alter the albedo of an asteroid to change its course for example.
The NYT is reporting that Cheney's Spokeswoman says he "is focused on the serious issues facing our nation." in repsonse to the news. Presumably he is just too busy to be impeached. Nixon should have used that one instead of protesting his innocence. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/us/24brfs-IMPEAC HMENTE_BRF.html
A bigger building, yes, but we'd get smaller goverment. I'd expect one new law about every 3 years. Two minutes of debate per representative would be about 200 hours. Then they'd have to read the role. It's a little like requiring the Sectretary of the Treasury to sign his full name to the currency to keep inflation in check;-)
Another benefit is that they'd have time to read the legislation they are voting on.
Self-sustaining is the goal of magnetic confinement: the fusion keeps the plasma hot. For inertial confinement, you need to zap the pellet and what you want is for the energy harvested from the reaction to be larger than the energy input for the zapping. The article is about a circuit which works with two capacitors, yes. It is significant because they are able to make this setup go a lot faster than the lot setup.
Well, yes I was joking a little bit. The level of effort for fusion has been scaled to estimates of when oil, gas and coal run out so it is not too supprising that it would take a long time. The point is that progress is indeed happening and it looks to be about on track.s -selling-solar.html
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With about 6000 congress people, districts will be too fine grained to make gerrymandering possible. Each district will actually represent a fairly cohesive community.
In your example you seem to forget that this is ranked choice voting. Suppose there are three candidates and as you suggest two are similar in their positions. Suppose that there is first choice voting that is split about three ways and one of the two similar candidates is eliminated. The second choice votes are then distributed among the remaining two candidates. It is much more likely that those second choices will be for the other similar candidate rather than for the disparate candidate. This is the advantage of IRV, it produces a majority result and eliminates plurality results that lead to charges of spoiling. Charges of spoiling are silly since parties and candidates don't own votes so this is not a good reason to go for IRV unless your the sort who likes to make those kind of charges. The largest strength of IRV is that it decerns what voters actually want better in multicandidate elections without having a potentially different electorate in sequential runoff schemes.
If you only want to bring out evidence, would it not be more expedient to ask the Senate Ethics Committee to consider expelling the President of the Senate for unbecomming conduct? That's what I did, but Senator Boxer does not read her email if it is not from California. The house has work to do so I'd think handling this in a Senate committee would be time better spent.
The green party strongly supports IRV and has been able to promote it is some jurisdictions (e.g. http://www.newamerica.net/blogs/2007/02/takoma_par ks_new_vote_system_makes_debut).
n al_Apportionment_Amendment. So, if you don't live in NJ, MD, NC, SC, NH, NY, RI, PA, VA, VT or KY
get your state legislature to ratify.s -selling-solar.html
To end gerrymandering, all that is needed is for 27 more states to ratify the Congressional Apportionment Amendment:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressio
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Look at the math. My statement differs from the others and thus is not redundant.s -selling-solar.html
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