Traditionally, it has taken more energy to make a panel than that panel will return to the grid.
That's actually incorrect. The average till a couple of years ago used to be 1:4, that is, the total production energy was about 1/4 of the energy the panels would generate in their lifetime.
But I guess mods can't be bothered to check facts.
For maximum effect, it should be a country with nuclear weapon technology (and means to deliver it) but not advanced enough to be able to discern (rapidly) between a nuclear blast (fission or fusion) and the impact of an asteroid. Also, possibly a country where it's important to keep appearances - leaders must be seen to be in charge, so they would react quicker than a thorough investigation would require. I can't think of many like that. North Korea maybe?
However, the thought is indeed somewhat unsettling.
That's all fine, but the truth is that with WindowsXP and especially Vista, you are not in control of the desktop, either. Microsoft is. If they decide to deactivate a certain desktop OS, they can do it. Even by mistake. I hope you were aware of this.
We started from mathematical proofs, you decided to move it to "your foot" and now "total bullshit". Do you see now why I say you suck at comparisons? Use a bit of common sense.
How would you know there aren't enough experts checking a certain information? Of course, IF YOU DELETE IT then you made sure there isn't anyone reading it and checking it.
So if you have something like a mathematical proof, and noone modifies it, is that a sign that nobody understands it, or that it's correct? I would guess the latter, but even if not, I would not go on deleting it just because I sustepct something. Who am I to delete stuff that smarter people than me have written?
Or do you mean to say that the basis/policy on which Wikipedia works is admins who are ignorant about topic X will delete articles about topic X?
Absolutely! What's the big deal with admins deleting stuff from Wikipedia? Need to manage something?
Wikipedia is oraganized knowledge in electronic form. It's electronic, so there's no "wasted paper", and it's organized, so it proves taht a large amount of knowledge can be organized - and so also a large amount of knowledge within one article.
I am afraid that, if Wikipedia admins persist on deleting stuff they don't like (because that's the only objective measure they have, they didn't go asking anyone if what they are going to delete is useful to them), they risk alienating contributors, which are the pillars on which Wikipedia exists.
For those who wonder, the fallacy in this chain of thought is that you can't compare a LHS and RHS if both are equal to 0, as it is done from step 5 onwards.
I was telling a friend today what Microsoft did to get OOXML passed by the ISO as a standard - the bribes and the bullying - and he was wondering how can a company get away with such behaviour. Well, Microsoft can get away with it, and still be a multi-billion per quarter company. Microsoft can put a resource syphon in its OS, and still get away with it - people will buy it even though it wastes 30% of their computers' resource for nothing, not even eye-candy.
I am sad to say this but Microsoft could get away with nearly anything for a very long time to come. Maybe it is in decline, but it will be long after Ballmer had his last heart attack.
I know what you meant, but I need to say this to protect the innocent: Samba is NOT a Microsoft product. Samba is an open-source implementation of some Microsoft file sharing and authentication... "protocols" (my fingers can't even type that). As far as I know, most of what the Samba team did had to be reverse-engineered. That is, Samba exists _in spite_ of Microsoft, not thanks to it.
Microsoft can point whatever the hell they want, everybody and their dogs and their fleas know full well how Microsoft got the ISO cert (that is, if they do get it). In fact, a MS rep better not point at that ISO certification, if he doesn't want to be laughed at and told to STFU right now!
What are they? The features in Acrobat Reader 8, that Foxit 2.2 doesn't have?
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It's interesting, astonishing and emblematic to me, that one application (Foxit Reader) would offer the same features as another (Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.x) but the package size is 10x smaller, it is a much faste application and it DOESN'T CRASH!
There's a 100% sure cure for that kind of idiocy; it's called draconian fines. If there's ONE thing humans understand, is consequence for their actions. No consequences --> no change in behaviour.
This reminds me of when a reporter of BBC World covered a story about copy-protected "CD"s. On one side there was a Big Label (Universal I think) rep that lied through his teeth saying that the silvery disk is a CD, while on the other side there was a techy guy who explained how these disks don't adhere to the CD standards and have (most of) the loss-correcction rendundant bits removed.
And the BBC journalist, in the conclusion remarks said "as always, the truth is somewhre in between". WTF? Truth is usually NOT somewhere in between, but at one or the other side - like in that story, when it was squarely in the techy guy's hands.
I HATE this sort of journalistic bullshit. Probably spouted because they have no clue about what they're writing about. My father worked as a journalist for 20 years, and he told me the "Journalists are the most ignorant people in the world". His words.
I like the part where you delve into the communication-side of the equation. I would just like to add that they would probably have to use frequency hopping - usuing, again, a schema based on one-time pad.
The "small army of rebels" step is a bit challenging, but otherwise this plan could work. The question is, is out there any GPL code that a company would be so interested in having a closed source version of it, to go to all that trouble?
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I thought the Yugo was the cheapest car ever made? It was crummy, but spec wise not much worse than the Tata.
Thanks. That actually was a consolation.
I have invested some money (well, my retirement fund) into Henderson Industries of the Future, which is composed by alternative energy companies.
As luck would have it (sarcasm) this company is NOT in the portfolio.
Traditionally, it has taken more energy to make a panel than that panel will return to the grid.
That's actually incorrect. The average till a couple of years ago used to be 1:4, that is, the total production energy was about 1/4 of the energy the panels would generate in their lifetime.
But I guess mods can't be bothered to check facts.
For maximum effect, it should be a country with nuclear weapon technology (and means to deliver it) but not advanced enough to be able to discern (rapidly) between a nuclear blast (fission or fusion) and the impact of an asteroid. Also, possibly a country where it's important to keep appearances - leaders must be seen to be in charge, so they would react quicker than a thorough investigation would require. I can't think of many like that. North Korea maybe?
However, the thought is indeed somewhat unsettling.
That's all fine, but the truth is that with WindowsXP and especially Vista, you are not in control of the desktop, either. Microsoft is. If they decide to deactivate a certain desktop OS, they can do it. Even by mistake. I hope you were aware of this.
We started from mathematical proofs, you decided to move it to "your foot" and now "total bullshit". Do you see now why I say you suck at comparisons? Use a bit of common sense.
Yes. I don't mind that. I don't have to read it.
But I have to say that you suck at comparisons, if you think your left foot is comparable in relevance to a mathematical proof.
How would you know there aren't enough experts checking a certain information? Of course, IF YOU DELETE IT then you made sure there isn't anyone reading it and checking it.
So if you have something like a mathematical proof, and noone modifies it, is that a sign that nobody understands it, or that it's correct? I would guess the latter, but even if not, I would not go on deleting it just because I sustepct something. Who am I to delete stuff that smarter people than me have written?
Or do you mean to say that the basis/policy on which Wikipedia works is admins who are ignorant about topic X will delete articles about topic X?
Absolutely! What's the big deal with admins deleting stuff from Wikipedia? Need to manage something?
Wikipedia is oraganized knowledge in electronic form. It's electronic, so there's no "wasted paper", and it's organized, so it proves taht a large amount of knowledge can be organized - and so also a large amount of knowledge within one article.
I am afraid that, if Wikipedia admins persist on deleting stuff they don't like (because that's the only objective measure they have, they didn't go asking anyone if what they are going to delete is useful to them), they risk alienating contributors, which are the pillars on which Wikipedia exists.
For those who wonder, the fallacy in this chain of thought is that you can't compare a LHS and RHS if both are equal to 0, as it is done from step 5 onwards.
I was telling a friend today what Microsoft did to get OOXML passed by the ISO as a standard - the bribes and the bullying - and he was wondering how can a company get away with such behaviour. Well, Microsoft can get away with it, and still be a multi-billion per quarter company. Microsoft can put a resource syphon in its OS, and still get away with it - people will buy it even though it wastes 30% of their computers' resource for nothing, not even eye-candy.
I am sad to say this but Microsoft could get away with nearly anything for a very long time to come. Maybe it is in decline, but it will be long after Ballmer had his last heart attack.
I know what you meant, but I need to say this to protect the innocent: Samba is NOT a Microsoft product. Samba is an open-source implementation of some Microsoft file sharing and authentication ... "protocols" (my fingers can't even type that). As far as I know, most of what the Samba team did had to be reverse-engineered. That is, Samba exists _in spite_ of Microsoft, not thanks to it.
Microsoft can point whatever the hell they want, everybody and their dogs and their fleas know full well how Microsoft got the ISO cert (that is, if they do get it). In fact, a MS rep better not point at that ISO certification, if he doesn't want to be laughed at and told to STFU right now!
Why? Because it's easier to ask the OLPC people to add 2 GB of flash than do some development work themselves, that's why.
What are they? The features in Acrobat Reader 8, that Foxit 2.2 doesn't have?
It's interesting, astonishing and emblematic to me, that one application (Foxit Reader) would offer the same features as another (Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.x) but the package size is 10x smaller, it is a much faste application and it DOESN'T CRASH!
Acrobat Reader 8.x is a piece of crap.
There's a 100% sure cure for that kind of idiocy; it's called draconian fines. If there's ONE thing humans understand, is consequence for their actions. No consequences --> no change in behaviour.
This reminds me of when a reporter of BBC World covered a story about copy-protected "CD"s. On one side there was a Big Label (Universal I think) rep that lied through his teeth saying that the silvery disk is a CD, while on the other side there was a techy guy who explained how these disks don't adhere to the CD standards and have (most of) the loss-correcction rendundant bits removed.
And the BBC journalist, in the conclusion remarks said "as always, the truth is somewhre in between". WTF? Truth is usually NOT somewhere in between, but at one or the other side - like in that story, when it was squarely in the techy guy's hands.
I HATE this sort of journalistic bullshit. Probably spouted because they have no clue about what they're writing about. My father worked as a journalist for 20 years, and he told me the "Journalists are the most ignorant people in the world". His words.
And that's thousands of users whose computer is wasting CPU and memory resources on clearpath.
Good point.
I like the part where you delve into the communication-side of the equation. I would just like to add that they would probably have to use frequency hopping - usuing, again, a schema based on one-time pad.
I do think there's an evil plot going on here: whre the fuck are the 80 GB players on that list?
The "small army of rebels" step is a bit challenging, but otherwise this plan could work. The question is, is out there any GPL code that a company would be so interested in having a closed source version of it, to go to all that trouble?
the one that kills any motivation I could have to buy a Zune: not being able to download stuff to it without a proprietary MS application.