Wow this has to be the most IDIOTIC comment I've ever seen. First off, piss does NOT appear anywhere in the Bible
My Strongs' concordance shows piss in fact is in the bible. And pisseth. But don't let the facts get in your way of defending a stupid fairy-tale religion.
Missing is my favourite - 1 Kings 21:21 (favourite because a pastor asked everyone to turn to it and read out loud, I quickly said "I think you mean 2 Kings 21:21, he said No, 1 Kings 21:21... much hilarity to hear kids reading "dirty words in church" first thing on a Sunday morning). There are 7 references in all.
Also, don't use the Bible when you've obviously never taken the time to read or understand what it's saying. It is better for people to think you are whole than for you to open your mouth and remove all doubt. How about try to live by that from now on.
... coming from some right-wing religious nutjob who, unlike me, has obviously never read the whole bible... now if you want another biblical reference, your uninformed and provably wrong comments makes you sound like the jawbone of an ass. "Quiet, Donkey!"
The #1 holder (China) is cutting back on US Treasuries, instead "strongly encouraging" that money be lent inside China.. Nobody else can take up the slack.
MATC doesn't grant degrees. The MOST it does is give you up to 2 years worth of credits you can transfer to a REAL college.
As for the "its true that some people didn't learn how to use email in grade school. Some of those people are now trying to re-enter the workforce, or change jobs, and now they need to use email. Thankfully, MATC is there to help them." argument, this is something that anyone who isn't brain-dead can be taught in, at MOST, one afternoon, not a 1-credit course. Most non-computer-literate people figure it out with a few minutes help, mostly to point out what each icon does in their mail client. These should NOT be credit courses.
Courses like this are there to make money. They don't help people - not by convincing them that email is so complicated that it takes a full course to learn how to send one.
If OO.o says in its license that other companies cannot charge for it, then other companies cannot charge for it. You can "agree" to pay for it, but they cannot enforce payment.
Except for one special situation, the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) has no requirements about how much you can charge for distributing a copy of free software. You can charge nothing, a penny, a dollar, or a billion dollars. It's up to you, and the marketplace, so don't complain to us if nobody wants to pay a billion dollars for a copy.
The one exception is in the case where binaries are distributed without the corresponding complete source code. Those who do this are required by the GNU GPL to provide source code on subsequent request. Without a limit on the fee for the source code, they would be able set a fee too large for anyone to pay--such as a billion dollars--and thus pretend to release source code while in truth concealing it. So in this case we have to limit the fee for source, to ensure the user's freedom. In ordinary situations, however, there is no such justification for limiting distribution fees, so we do not limit them.
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The fault lives entirely with her. As proof, I offer you some of the for-credit classes offered by the "Technical School" she wanted to "attend" via the Internet... anyone stupid enough to pay for this low caliber education is in the "you can't fix stupid" demographic:
Introduction to email software: send, receive, reply to, and forward messages; attach files; use signature blocks; and organize mail in folders. Overview of Internet features: web browsers and search engines, bookmarks and shortcuts, hypertext links and URL addresses, digital camera use, and on-line web resources. Prerequisite: competency in Windows (10103124, 10103134, or 10103135).
Introduces the Windows XP operating system: work with common elements (windows, menus, toolbars, panes, dialog boxes and Help), use accessory programs, manage files/folders using My Computer and Explorer, customize using the Control Panel and maintain the computer.
This course introduces the Windows Vista operating system: work with common elements (windows, ribbons, dialog boxes, and Help), use accessory programs, manage file/folders, customize settings and maintain the computer.
Introduction to Microsoft's word processing software. Create, edit, save, format and print basic documents; cut/copy/paste and find/replace text; apply font styles and effects; add bullets and numbering; work with tabs and indents; align text; apply borders and shading; use wizards and templates to produce documents; insert headers/footers; apply different formatting to document sections; create columns; insert clip art. Create and format tables, modify rows and columns, perform calculations, sort table data, customize tables. Prerequisite: competency in Windows or Windows course (10-103-124, 10-103-134 or 10-103-135).
Credits: 1
We had classes in college that we labeled as "Mickey Mouse" - you'd sign up for one if you needed an easy credit. This, on the other hand, makes Mickey Mouse look like Einstein.
Introduction to email software: send, receive, reply to, and forward messages; attach files; use signature blocks; and organize mail in folders. Overview of Internet features: web browsers and search engines, bookmarks and shortcuts, hypertext links and URL addresses, digital camera use, and on-line web resources. Prerequisite: competency in Windows (10103124, 10103134, or 10103135).
The same applies to different versions of Word on different computers. Your point?
Too much time is wasted on presentation in place of content. Students increasing font sizes and spacing to try to make a 2-page text meet the 10-page requirement, for example.
We'd all be better off if scholastic submissions were all in plain text, with carriage returns between paragraphs.
Newsflash: Anyone who pays money to "attend" a "Technical College" that gives "credit" for such "courses" as "Windows Vista", "Introduction to Keyboarding" and "Introduction Internet" is too dumb to use a computer.
Introduction to email software: send, receive, reply to, and forward messages; attach files; use signature blocks; and organize mail in folders. Overview of Internet features: web browsers and search engines, bookmarks and shortcuts, hypertext links and URL addresses, digital camera use, and on-line web resources. Prerequisite: competency in Windows (10103124, 10103134, or 10103135).
Credits: 1
Talk about low expectations. This shouldn't take one class, never mind a whole course.
She's enrolling at the Madison Area Technical College, and couldn't be bothered to read the specs on a laptop she ordered?
Most of these "Technical colleges" are for people too dumb to complete "real college". Look at the course offerings: Keyboarding Introduction, Windows Vista, Frontpage for beginners, Keyboard skillbuilding, Internet Introduction (where they learn how to USE EMAIL!!!???? - this is a credit course?). This is stuff kids learn at home, or on their own, or in grade school.
Learn computer keyboarding (alphabetic and numeric keypad), develop speed and accuracy.
Credits: 1
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Windows Vista
Catalog #10103124
This course introduces the Windows Vista operating system: work with common elements (windows, ribbons, dialog boxes, and Help), use accessory programs, manage file/folders, customize settings and maintain the computer.
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FrontPage-Beg (Webpage Design)
Catalog #10103150
Introduction to Web page design concepts using FrontPage Web-authoring software. Create interactive Web sites with graphics, animations and components; use tables, frames, forms and templates to enhance Web pages; publish a functional Web site. Prerequisites: competency in Windows (10-103-124, 10-103-134 or 10-103-135) and Internet (10-103-146) or equivalent.
Credits: 1
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Keyboard Skillbuilding
Catalog #10106139
Identify keyboarding weaknesses through diagnostic tests and analyses. Refine keyboarding technique, increase speed and improve accuracy through individualized corrective practice. Prerequisite: 10106101 or touch keyboarding experience.
Credits: 1
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Internet Introduction
Catalog #10103146
Introduction to email software: send, receive, reply to, and forward messages; attach files; use signature blocks; and organize mail in folders. Overview of Internet features: web browsers and search engines, bookmarks and shortcuts, hypertext links and URL addresses, digital camera use, and on-line web resources. Prerequisite: competency in Windows (10103124, 10103134, or 10103135).
I attended the same school as this chick, and 90% of my syllabuses said that works *must* be submitted in Microsoft Word format. It is a technical college, preparing people for real jobs where Microsoft products are extremely relevant. In the real world, people can't afford to be technical non-conformists.
Another lying Micro$hill who avoids the obvious. OOo can read and save in.doc format.
It's funny because she claims she couldn't get online because her Verizon install CD didn't work. She should have checked to see if she wasn't already online before complaining - I've seen people bitch about "I can't run my install" when all they needed to do was click on the browser - they were already online.
If you read the article, this is someone who was just looking for an excuse to abandon the courses. It's not like openoffice doesn't work, or that networking under linux isn't pretty much "plug it in and go online."
Don't bother asking for them to have common sense. Common sense would be "I'm morbidly obese - I'll stop eating and lose some weight" - not - "So I'm a little overweight (denial) - I DESERVE a second airplane seat FREE (I'm-a-victim)."
Airlines should just say "Sorry, we can't seat you. You're too much of a safety risk." - because there is NO way that fatty is going to be able to comply with the need to be able to evacuate the plane in under 90 seconds, and is also a hazard to everyone else by blocking the aisles.
Q: Know why fat people smell so bad?
A: So blind people can make fun of them too.
Now I'm happy to also give you some good news. You're probably not graduating until the summer. That's great. First of all, the economy will be just about to turn around (the media won't tell you, but they also didn't tell you one year ago that we were in a recession).
The government has to be the entity that says we are in a recession after 2 consecutive quarters of economic shrinkage. There is nothing for the media to report if the gov't economists don't say anything. There is still the issue of why it took so long for them to say something though but it wasn't the media's fault in my opinion.
You're both wrong. We have a LOOONG way to go before this recession is over. Also, a recession is when the economy cotracts. The "Two consecutive quartars" is not a requirement - just a convenience.
We've had periods where there would be a quarter of large declines, then a quarter of small upticks, then another quarterly large decline, and another quartery uptick - the economy was definitely in recession, but it wasn't "officially" in recession. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
We've been in a recession for over a year. We were in a recession during those first two quarterly down-turns - it wasn't like we suddenly entered a recession AFTER 2 quarters of economic downturn.
An economy is either growing, stable, or declining. Saying that you have to wait 6 months before you can say the economy is declining is just another attempt to avoid the harsh realities.
What if they die? What if they can't pay them any more?
Why should these concerns apply only to the unix guy? It's not like the non-unix guy is going to continue to work from beyond the grave, or if you don't pay them.
Reality is largely subjective. It doesn't matter if he's "right" or not. If you want to get a point across, you don't do it by being a douche, and you don't do it on an account named "Adolf Hitroll" and with a goatse link in your signature. I'm sure in this same story, somebody will make the same point and get modded +5, and rightly so.
That would be like disagreeing with something because a republican president did it, while agreeing with the same action later on because a democratic president did it.
For example, the bailouts. I was against them under Bush, and I'm still against them under Obama.
Now back on-track and on-topic: The original poster took a side-swipe at what is now perceived by many in the rest of the world as the US penchant, for the last decade, to just try to cash in on boring, derivative, or lazy-assed business schemes. The article itself could validly be seen as one of these schemes , which boils down to "look - we can automatically generate games just by combining features of other games in a semi-guided manner".
It might be something to play around with, but it certainly isn't something that will lead to more creative games... just more derivative, "been-there-done-that" games. As I pointed out, there's already way too much shovelware out there, and not just in games - in TV shows and Hollywood movies, someone does something half-way original, next theng you know, there's a dozen copycats all trying to cash in, instead of creating something.
Creating something original is WORK. For a decade now, Americans have been eschewing honest work in large numbers ("this is the new new economy", "just take out another HELOC", "you can make millions - Flip This House!"). And the proposed solution? Trillions MORE of debt. The Fed found out you can't push a string. 0% interest rates aren't going to have an effect when people are upside-down on their mortgages by hundreds of thousands of dollars, when all the banks are insolvent, and when people are worried about their own job futures.
It's the same with the trillion dollar stimulus package. More unoriginal thinking. As a matter of fact, the government policy looks about as randomly-thrown-together as one of these auto-generated games.
The formula for how they grade a game is defective. For example - "A game that can be won by random moves receives a -1".
One of the first games you ever played, tic-tac-toe can be won a decent amount of the time with random moves. Ditto rogue.
The article sucked, as does the idea of creating games by combining features of other games. We already have way too much of that everywhere - hollywood, tv, music, etc.
This is what happens when you don't have any creativity - you come up with yet another way to leach off others creativity.
The world doesn't need "Yet Another PacMan Clone." It also doesn't need someone who thinks that they can whore this out to game publishers as a way to save money producing more shovelware. We already see too much of that crap out there. If there is any trolling going on, it's the writers of the article who are doing it.
From the Internet bubble to the housing bubble, it's all been "let me have it all without having to work."
Sure, this can create a bunch of derivative games... so you'll end up with 50 variants of tetris, 40 of scrabble, maybe they'll even "rediscover" wordtris. There's no creativity there.
Your consumption meter doesn't measure electricity - it exploits the effect of electrical induction in the plate to cause rotation, which USUALLY has a correlation to the amount of current. However, put the meter in a glass enclosure in bright sunlight (or shine a heat lamp on it) and the meter stops measuring anywhere near accurately.
Increasing the voltage and dropping the amperage means less loss, since for any cable size, capacity is in amps.
Avoiding one transformer step (220 to 110) means less loss (transformers are never 100% efficient).
Too bad we can't run 480 or 600 volts in our homes. The motor in that clunky blender would weigh next to nothing, and our ACs wouldn't need such large starter capacitors.
What I don't understand is why we don't just run the current directly from the UPS at 12, 5, and 3.3 volts to the box, rather than 120v --> 12v (UPS battery) --> 120v --> 12v.
It's not like laptops do the battery pack --> 120v --> 12v thing when running on either internal batteries or external power.
Building headless/keyboardless laptops as el cheapo, energy-efficient home/small business servers should have SOME market potential, and a LOT more savings on energy.
Please spread the word and bring some attention to this issue so we can get it fixed!
Please someone fix the damn economy for crissakes.
That's not going to happen. The current crisis is the result of trying to put off a recession for 8 years, combined with 8 years of criminal ponzi schemes. The current bailout plans will just prolong the time it takes to clear out all the bad debt and bad actors, add to the debt, further devalue the dollar, and delay the inevitable - making it much more painful.
Expectations (Credit Suisse, etc) are that a *minimum* of 1 in 6 US mortgages will default over the next 5 years no matter what, and that the housing market won't hit bottom untl sometime between 2011 and 2016, with another 2 decades before values "return" to their peaks.
Yu can't solve a bad debt crisis with more bad debt, rewarding those responsible for the bad debt, and imposing the burden on those who were prudent. The refusal to bite the bullet over the last 8 years just guarantees that we'll be lucky if we avoid a depression, but that we'll definitely have the worst recesssion this side of 1929-1940.
The chinese have already figured it out. Additionally, they have figured out that it's better to invest their money at home than continue to buy US money long-term, which has already lost between 93 and 98% of its' value in the last 40 years. Long-term US bonds are going to be unsellable internationally a year or two from now, which means print, print, print, and a decade of stagflation, rather than real growth.
Notice how Obama is now saying "create or save jobs" rather than "create jobs." There will be no net creation of jobs over the next 2 years - just people changing from one job to another. This is still better than being unemployed, but it could have been done without the extortion/panic reaction of the bail-outs, which is the largest, most futile Ponzi scheme ever.
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My Strongs' concordance shows piss in fact is in the bible. And pisseth. But don't let the facts get in your way of defending a stupid fairy-tale religion.
BTW - Have you even read the whole bible? Did you try looking? Some quotes: http://revjim.freeshell.org/piss.html
Missing is my favourite - 1 Kings 21:21 (favourite because a pastor asked everyone to turn to it and read out loud, I quickly said "I think you mean 2 Kings 21:21, he said No, 1 Kings 21:21 ... much hilarity to hear kids reading "dirty words in church" first thing on a Sunday morning). There are 7 references in all.
The #1 holder (China) is cutting back on US Treasuries, instead "strongly encouraging" that money be lent inside China.. Nobody else can take up the slack.
MATC doesn't grant degrees. The MOST it does is give you up to 2 years worth of credits you can transfer to a REAL college.
As for the "its true that some people didn't learn how to use email in grade school. Some of those people are now trying to re-enter the workforce, or change jobs, and now they need to use email. Thankfully, MATC is there to help them." argument, this is something that anyone who isn't brain-dead can be taught in, at MOST, one afternoon, not a 1-credit course. Most non-computer-literate people figure it out with a few minutes help, mostly to point out what each icon does in their mail client. These should NOT be credit courses.
Courses like this are there to make money. They don't help people - not by convincing them that email is so complicated that it takes a full course to learn how to send one.
OpenOffice is GPL software
The GPL allows open source software to be sold for ANY price, even a billion bucks a copy
" High or low fees, and the GNU GPL
Except for one special situation, the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) has no requirements about how much you can charge for distributing a copy of free software. You can charge nothing, a penny, a dollar, or a billion dollars. It's up to you, and the marketplace, so don't complain to us if nobody wants to pay a billion dollars for a copy.
The one exception is in the case where binaries are distributed without the corresponding complete source code. Those who do this are required by the GNU GPL to provide source code on subsequent request. Without a limit on the fee for the source code, they would be able set a fee too large for anyone to pay--such as a billion dollars--and thus pretend to release source code while in truth concealing it. So in this case we have to limit the fee for source, to ensure the user's freedom. In ordinary situations, however, there is no such justification for limiting distribution fees, so we do not limit them. "
Keyboarding Introduction
Catalog #10106101
Learn computer keyboarding (alphabetic and numeric keypad), develop speed and accuracy.
Credits: 1
Internet Introduction
Catalog #10103146
Introduction to email software: send, receive, reply to, and forward messages; attach files; use signature blocks; and organize mail in folders. Overview of Internet features: web browsers and search engines, bookmarks and shortcuts, hypertext links and URL addresses, digital camera use, and on-line web resources. Prerequisite: competency in Windows (10103124, 10103134, or 10103135).
Credits: 1
Keyboard Skillbuilding
Catalog #10106139
Identify keyboarding weaknesses through diagnostic tests and analyses. Refine keyboarding technique, increase speed and improve accuracy through individualized corrective practice. Prerequisite: 10106101 or touch keyboarding experience.
Credits: 1
Windows XP
Catalog #10103135
Introduces the Windows XP operating system: work with common elements (windows, menus, toolbars, panes, dialog boxes and Help), use accessory programs, manage files/folders using My Computer and Explorer, customize using the Control Panel and maintain the computer.
Credits: 1
Windows Vista
Catalog #10103124
This course introduces the Windows Vista operating system: work with common elements (windows, ribbons, dialog boxes, and Help), use accessory programs, manage file/folders, customize settings and maintain the computer.
Credits: 1
Word - Beginning
Catalog #10103137
Introduction to Microsoft's word processing software. Create, edit, save, format and print basic documents; cut/copy/paste and find/replace text; apply font styles and effects; add bullets and numbering; work with tabs and indents; align text; apply borders and shading; use wizards and templates to produce documents; insert headers/footers; apply different formatting to document sections; create columns; insert clip art. Create and format tables, modify rows and columns, perform calculations, sort table data, customize tables. Prerequisite: competency in Windows or Windows course (10-103-124, 10-103-134 or 10-103-135).
Credits: 1
We had classes in college that we labeled as "Mickey Mouse" - you'd sign up for one if you needed an easy credit. This, on the other hand, makes Mickey Mouse look like Einstein.
Same thing happens under ms-office with different printers.
"I attended the same school as this chick, and 90% of my syllabuses said that works *must* be submitted in Microsoft Word format."
You ADMIT to attending a "school" that gives credit courses on How to use a Keyboard (1 Credit) and How to send Email (1 Credit)? And you want people to take you seriously?
Anyone stupid enough to pay good money for this kind of shit, I have just the poker game for you to sit in on!
The same applies to different versions of Word on different computers. Your point?
Too much time is wasted on presentation in place of content. Students increasing font sizes and spacing to try to make a 2-page text meet the 10-page requirement, for example.
We'd all be better off if scholastic submissions were all in plain text, with carriage returns between paragraphs.
Newsflash: Anyone who pays money to "attend" a "Technical College" that gives "credit" for such "courses" as "Windows Vista", "Introduction to Keyboarding" and "Introduction Internet" is too dumb to use a computer.
Credit for learning how to send an email? What a fucking joke.
Talk about low expectations. This shouldn't take one class, never mind a whole course.
Most of these "Technical colleges" are for people too dumb to complete "real college". Look at the course offerings: Keyboarding Introduction, Windows Vista, Frontpage for beginners, Keyboard skillbuilding, Internet Introduction (where they learn how to USE EMAIL!!!???? - this is a credit course?). This is stuff kids learn at home, or on their own, or in grade school.
Here's the list of online courses
Choice exerpts, as noted above:
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What a joke.
Another lying Micro$hill who avoids the obvious. OOo can read and save in .doc format.
It's funny because she claims she couldn't get online because her Verizon install CD didn't work. She should have checked to see if she wasn't already online before complaining - I've seen people bitch about "I can't run my install" when all they needed to do was click on the browser - they were already online.
If you read the article, this is someone who was just looking for an excuse to abandon the courses. It's not like openoffice doesn't work, or that networking under linux isn't pretty much "plug it in and go online."
Don't bother asking for them to have common sense. Common sense would be "I'm morbidly obese - I'll stop eating and lose some weight" - not - "So I'm a little overweight (denial) - I DESERVE a second airplane seat FREE (I'm-a-victim)."
Airlines should just say "Sorry, we can't seat you. You're too much of a safety risk." - because there is NO way that fatty is going to be able to comply with the need to be able to evacuate the plane in under 90 seconds, and is also a hazard to everyone else by blocking the aisles.
Q: Know why fat people smell so bad?
A: So blind people can make fun of them too.
http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=8238910&version=1&locale=EN-US
You can see the MRI machine. The only way she'd fit is if if she blends.
You're both wrong. We have a LOOONG way to go before this recession is over. Also, a recession is when the economy cotracts. The "Two consecutive quartars" is not a requirement - just a convenience.
We've had periods where there would be a quarter of large declines, then a quarter of small upticks, then another quarterly large decline, and another quartery uptick - the economy was definitely in recession, but it wasn't "officially" in recession. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
We've been in a recession for over a year. We were in a recession during those first two quarterly down-turns - it wasn't like we suddenly entered a recession AFTER 2 quarters of economic downturn.
An economy is either growing, stable, or declining. Saying that you have to wait 6 months before you can say the economy is declining is just another attempt to avoid the harsh realities.
Show that you can vi with others
There. NOW it's fixed.
(- pre-emptory note to emacs pundits - you can't do a play on words like "vi"/"vie", so stfu. Just one more reason why vi is superior to emacs :-)
Why should these concerns apply only to the unix guy? It's not like the non-unix guy is going to continue to work from beyond the grave, or if you don't pay them.
That would be like disagreeing with something because a republican president did it, while agreeing with the same action later on because a democratic president did it.
For example, the bailouts. I was against them under Bush, and I'm still against them under Obama.
Now back on-track and on-topic: The original poster took a side-swipe at what is now perceived by many in the rest of the world as the US penchant, for the last decade, to just try to cash in on boring, derivative, or lazy-assed business schemes. The article itself could validly be seen as one of these schemes , which boils down to "look - we can automatically generate games just by combining features of other games in a semi-guided manner".
It might be something to play around with, but it certainly isn't something that will lead to more creative games ... just more derivative, "been-there-done-that" games. As I pointed out, there's already way too much shovelware out there, and not just in games - in TV shows and Hollywood movies, someone does something half-way original, next theng you know, there's a dozen copycats all trying to cash in, instead of creating something.
Creating something original is WORK. For a decade now, Americans have been eschewing honest work in large numbers ("this is the new new economy", "just take out another HELOC", "you can make millions - Flip This House!"). And the proposed solution? Trillions MORE of debt. The Fed found out you can't push a string. 0% interest rates aren't going to have an effect when people are upside-down on their mortgages by hundreds of thousands of dollars, when all the banks are insolvent, and when people are worried about their own job futures.
It's the same with the trillion dollar stimulus package. More unoriginal thinking. As a matter of fact, the government policy looks about as randomly-thrown-together as one of these auto-generated games.
Ever thought that sometimes a troll is right?
Better yet, did you even read the FA?
The formula for how they grade a game is defective. For example - "A game that can be won by random moves receives a -1".
One of the first games you ever played, tic-tac-toe can be won a decent amount of the time with random moves. Ditto rogue.
The article sucked, as does the idea of creating games by combining features of other games. We already have way too much of that everywhere - hollywood, tv, music, etc.
This is what happens when you don't have any creativity - you come up with yet another way to leach off others creativity.
The world doesn't need "Yet Another PacMan Clone." It also doesn't need someone who thinks that they can whore this out to game publishers as a way to save money producing more shovelware. We already see too much of that crap out there. If there is any trolling going on, it's the writers of the article who are doing it.
Why this was modded -1 is beyond me - it's true.
From the Internet bubble to the housing bubble, it's all been "let me have it all without having to work."
Sure, this can create a bunch of derivative games ... so you'll end up with 50 variants of tetris, 40 of scrabble, maybe they'll even "rediscover" wordtris. There's no creativity there.
Your consumption meter doesn't measure electricity - it exploits the effect of electrical induction in the plate to cause rotation, which USUALLY has a correlation to the amount of current. However, put the meter in a glass enclosure in bright sunlight (or shine a heat lamp on it) and the meter stops measuring anywhere near accurately.
Increasing the voltage and dropping the amperage means less loss, since for any cable size, capacity is in amps.
Avoiding one transformer step (220 to 110) means less loss (transformers are never 100% efficient).
Too bad we can't run 480 or 600 volts in our homes. The motor in that clunky blender would weigh next to nothing, and our ACs wouldn't need such large starter capacitors.
What I don't understand is why we don't just run the current directly from the UPS at 12, 5, and 3.3 volts to the box, rather than 120v --> 12v (UPS battery) --> 120v --> 12v.
It's not like laptops do the battery pack --> 120v --> 12v thing when running on either internal batteries or external power.
Building headless/keyboardless laptops as el cheapo, energy-efficient home/small business servers should have SOME market potential, and a LOT more savings on energy.
It must also affect servers, because none of the links is transferring data either.
That's not going to happen. The current crisis is the result of trying to put off a recession for 8 years, combined with 8 years of criminal ponzi schemes. The current bailout plans will just prolong the time it takes to clear out all the bad debt and bad actors, add to the debt, further devalue the dollar, and delay the inevitable - making it much more painful.
Expectations (Credit Suisse, etc) are that a *minimum* of 1 in 6 US mortgages will default over the next 5 years no matter what, and that the housing market won't hit bottom untl sometime between 2011 and 2016, with another 2 decades before values "return" to their peaks.
Yu can't solve a bad debt crisis with more bad debt, rewarding those responsible for the bad debt, and imposing the burden on those who were prudent. The refusal to bite the bullet over the last 8 years just guarantees that we'll be lucky if we avoid a depression, but that we'll definitely have the worst recesssion this side of 1929-1940.
The chinese have already figured it out. Additionally, they have figured out that it's better to invest their money at home than continue to buy US money long-term, which has already lost between 93 and 98% of its' value in the last 40 years. Long-term US bonds are going to be unsellable internationally a year or two from now, which means print, print, print, and a decade of stagflation, rather than real growth.
Notice how Obama is now saying "create or save jobs" rather than "create jobs." There will be no net creation of jobs over the next 2 years - just people changing from one job to another. This is still better than being unemployed, but it could have been done without the extortion/panic reaction of the bail-outs, which is the largest, most futile Ponzi scheme ever.