I agree. Switching to a vegan diet is about the most effective thing that one can do to save the planet. Ending the horrific suffering of billions of fellow creatures is an added bonus.
I agree. Alternative energy is great, but a huge amount of energy is currently channeled into animal agriculture. The planet is being deforested. Rivers of drug-laden animal excrement flow out to the sea.
50 years is already way too long. They should reduce it to 3-5 years. That would give the artist plenty of time to make a profit. Unfortunately, copyright as it is now implemented and enforced is entirely for the benefit of large corporate interests. It stifles creativity rather than promoting it.
Good points. Furthermore, the power companies are already making predictions about usage. See TV Pickup or tea time in britain. Local weather is actually relatively easy to predict.
If you buy a product from Apple, it's not really yours. Oh, you own the lump of hardware, but the apps, the content, the OS? No, you do not own any of that.
Several posts, mostly by ACs, suggest that solar panels are putting "dirty" power back into the grid. Is there any truth to that?
They also suggest that net metering requires some extra infrastructure on the part of the utility, which I know to be completely false.
Garden Mythbusters: Does Sunlight and Water Mixing Really Burn Leaves?
Two years ago, four Hungarian scientists published a paper called “Optics of sunlit water drops on leaves: conditions under which sunburn is possible” in the journal New Phytologist. Given the near-universal belief that water drops can scorch plant leaves on a sunny day (e.g. the RHS book How To Garden: “Under a hot midday sun, water droplets on leaves will act as miniature magnifying glasses and may scorch them”), you may be surprised — or you may not — that no one had previously checked to see if this actually happens.
First of all, the short answer is no.
Are there any circumstances under which water drops on leaves can cause sunburn? Yes, but only if the leaf has a dense covering of water-repellent hairs, in which case drops can be held above the leaf surface, allowing them to focus light on the surface itself.
The problem with gstreamer, and anything based on it, is that it is a single-process model. That's fine as long as all the processing elements play nicely, but one poorly written plugin can bring everything crashing down and then you have to sift through lots of rubble to figure out what happened. Also, it doesn't scale like a distributed architecture would. Also, gstreamer is only now starting to think about support for GPGPUs.
Still, gstreamer is the best open-source flow-based framework that we have for now.
Whenever you start talking about "the CRT in the other room", do your friends and colleagues exchange looks and get all uncomfortable? What else do you hear? Voices? What do they tell you?
No. It's not about whether the music (or movie) is a classic or a piece of crap. It's not about the cost. It's about control and it goes way beyond entertainment. When a handful of megacorporations control %99 of the mass media it's time to fear for our culture, our democracy, and our civilization.
O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Differential Geometry.
Math is unique in that there are many levels of abstraction,
and you can't understand the higher levels without first acquiring a pretty good understanding
of the lower levels.
At each level, a certain amount of study and memorization is required, just as in any
academic discipline.
However, the idea that one needs some special cognitive ability
or conceptual skills is a complete myth.
Once you have absorbed the concepts and vocabulary from one level,
moving to the next level should require no more brain power than, say, learning
to follow a recipe in a cook book or installing a plumbing fixture.
I have been using Ice for about a year now and can strongly recommend it as a middleware framework. They now support IceGrid which I have not tried but it appears much more elegant than Globus.
The law is aimed preventing wasteful spending by opening the federal budget to greater scrutiny. The information is already available, but the Web site would make it easier for those who aren't experts on the process to see how taxpayer dollars are being spent.
You can get a lot of info from the GAO. Unfortunately, W doesn't seem to be albe to get them to spin the numbers in his favor, hence this bill.
That's a big question right now. However, wind, solar, tidal, etc. power are either at or very close to being cost-competetive with fossil fuel power. I am assuming that the trend will continue, so eventually there will be no fossil fuel electricity and hence no negative impact from electric powered vehicles.
Which is one of the reasons why I like them for the on-the-road charging scheme that I outlined. The other reason being that they are much less toxic than batteries.
I've seen that too, it's very annoying for everyone. But if the vehicle had a backup power source, i.e. ultracapacitor, then it could at the very least get out of the middle of the road.
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Get a room you two.
I agree. Switching to a vegan diet is about the most effective thing that one can do to save the planet. Ending the horrific suffering of billions of fellow creatures is an added bonus.
I agree. Alternative energy is great, but a huge amount of energy is currently channeled into animal agriculture. The planet is being deforested. Rivers of drug-laden animal excrement flow out to the sea.
50 years is already way too long. They should reduce it to 3-5 years. That would give the artist plenty of time to make a profit. Unfortunately, copyright as it is now implemented and enforced is entirely for the benefit of large corporate interests. It stifles creativity rather than promoting it.
Good points. Furthermore, the power companies are already making predictions about usage. See TV Pickup or tea time in britain. Local weather is actually relatively easy to predict.
If you buy a product from Apple, it's not really yours. Oh, you own the lump of hardware, but the apps, the content, the OS? No, you do not own any of that.
Several posts, mostly by ACs, suggest that solar panels are putting "dirty" power back into the grid. Is there any truth to that?
They also suggest that net metering requires some extra infrastructure on the part of the utility, which I know to be completely false.
Garden Mythbusters: Does Sunlight and Water Mixing Really Burn Leaves?
Two years ago, four Hungarian scientists published a paper called “Optics of sunlit water drops on leaves: conditions under which sunburn is possible” in the journal New Phytologist. Given the near-universal belief that water drops can scorch plant leaves on a sunny day (e.g. the RHS book How To Garden: “Under a hot midday sun, water droplets on leaves will act as miniature magnifying glasses and may scorch them”), you may be surprised — or you may not — that no one had previously checked to see if this actually happens.
First of all, the short answer is no.
Are there any circumstances under which water drops on leaves can cause sunburn? Yes, but only if the leaf has a dense covering of water-repellent hairs, in which case drops can be held above the leaf surface, allowing them to focus light on the surface itself.
The problem with gstreamer, and anything based on it, is that it is a single-process model. That's fine as long as all the processing elements play nicely, but one poorly written plugin can bring everything crashing down and then you have to sift through lots of rubble to figure out what happened. Also, it doesn't scale like a distributed architecture would. Also, gstreamer is only now starting to think about support for GPGPUs.
Still, gstreamer is the best open-source flow-based framework that we have for now.
Whenever you start talking about "the CRT in the other room", do your friends and colleagues exchange looks and get all uncomfortable? What else do you hear? Voices? What do they tell you?
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They can have my Tinkertoys when they prise them from my cold, dead hands!
I recommend Ice.
No. It's not about whether the music (or movie) is a classic or a piece of crap. It's not about the cost. It's about control and it goes way beyond entertainment. When a handful of megacorporations control %99 of the mass media it's time to fear for our culture, our democracy, and our civilization.
O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Differential Geometry.
However, the idea that one needs some special cognitive ability or conceptual skills is a complete myth. Once you have absorbed the concepts and vocabulary from one level, moving to the next level should require no more brain power than, say, learning to follow a recipe in a cook book or installing a plumbing fixture.
I could or not less than completely agree or more!
I have been using Ice for about a year now and can strongly recommend it as a middleware framework. They now support IceGrid which I have not tried but it appears much more elegant than Globus.
You can get a lot of info from the GAO. Unfortunately, W doesn't seem to be albe to get them to spin the numbers in his favor, hence this bill.
That's a big question right now. However, wind, solar, tidal, etc. power are either at or very close to being cost-competetive with fossil fuel power. I am assuming that the trend will continue, so eventually there will be no fossil fuel electricity and hence no negative impact from electric powered vehicles.
Which is one of the reasons why I like them for the on-the-road charging scheme that I outlined. The other reason being that they are much less toxic than batteries.
I've seen that too, it's very annoying for everyone. But if the vehicle had a backup power source, i.e. ultracapacitor, then it could at the very least get out of the middle of the road.
I agree, there will always be a need for long-distance vehicles.
Yes, but a lot less than a battery.