I'm hoping I make three.
However/. slowly becomes more like FARK with the passing of time. Things get dumbed down and the shouting content goes up. There's suddenly a wave of empowered bigotry against the religious and religion in general. Primarily from people who like to think they're smart, probably most of them are smart. I don't get why that is. I do get that a lot of is a backlash against the particularly intolerant strains of religions, but I'm always amused at the ease with which these tolerance police glibly stereotype people based on their religion, as long as it's either a big on that's an easy target, or a funny one with a lot of celebrities. If I were a little smarter my only response to them would be something like "Stalin wuz atheist like U sew U sux0r!" or something.
Our opinions are of very little value, when it comes to most subjects we're somewhere between uninformed and stupid. I watch the news because I want them to ask someone who actually has expertise on the subject, people who have knowledge about these subjects. I know an awful about a very few things, and damn little about almost every thing else. I can come to/. and find out what other geeks think about any and everything, but for the 14 minutes I'm watching TV news at one time I too would like them to trot out an actual expert, not the tweeted opinion of some moron from Delaware. (I have nothing against morons from Delaware. In fact, as I noted earlier when it comes to the vast majority of subjects I'm a moron, as are most of us.)
I do it like this.
I use a super-secret, my wife doesn't know it password for the mission critical life-changing passwords.
For web sites and forums there's a formula in my head, based on the web site name, truncated and a mathematical operation.
If you were to somehow aquire
In the IT part of your job only remember the one's you have to, don't try to store or remember your users e-mail password etc, just the one you need to reset their password.
You can use the same formula, for your work related passwords. Keeping a paper list of them in your locked fire-file or safe at work isn't crazy, and the risks of you getting hit by a bus are probably greater than the risk of ninjas breaking in to steal your login info.
Nerds, geeks, people who can read. I would imagine the Slashdot demographic to be more than a bit smart-assed, 85% male with a median age of about 30? But certainly with enough geezers like myself for the Barney Miller reference to get some traction.
Am I the only one who's worried that if and when we get into a shooting war against a country who's military is primarily goat-based they'll have hacked these things and just shut them all off? Or jam them, or worse, turn them against us? Especially the jamming and just shutting them all of parts. Are these electronics using parts made in China? Is there a windows operating system connected to the network that's connected to the network, that runs these things? The next uber-botnet is going to allow you to not only send male enhancement spam but to slaughter civilians with your own army of predator drones? (Also, obligatory skynet reference and COOL)
1: Canadians aren't even Americans.
2: Sounds liberal, don't they believe in evolution in Canada or something?
3: What I want to know is how you capture the exhaust? Doesn't this create tremendous backpressure or parasitic loss on the motor to compress/cool/capture all this gunk?
One of those is a real comment.
All these currently popular "zombie products" Of which I'm a big fan, (I'm wearing a shirt which has a zombie on it right now. It is Halloween after all) are about the "Zombie Apocalypse" as the parent correctly points out, it's that stand-in for nuclear war and general societal breakdown, things we really don't want to think about. But the Zombie Apocalypse lets us play with the elements of those breakdowns without giving us nightmares about fallout or EMP. That's always been my theory anyway.
I think most of the thinking is still that Patriots didn't really intercept the Scuds, in the sense of killing the warheads, and when they did it was mostly luck anyway. The fuses on the warheads weren't fast enough etc.
But that does not matter one bit. The Patriot missiles won the first gulf war. Yes I meant that, the scud was a political weapon, the attacks were intended to trick Israel into getting into the war and creating a political meltdown. These scud attacks weren't going to do a serious amount of damage in real terms, to anything. The Patriots seemed to intercept them at least some of the time and they removed much of the terror of the these terror attacks. As a political weapon it was awesome.
Now back to the point. The Patriot wasn't originally intended to intercept targets going that fast, it was meant to shoot down airplanes, so it wasn't designed initially to cope with targets going that fast.
The whole problem as described isn't that computers suck at math. It's that reality isn't digital and when you represent it as such you need to be very careful. But I still have a problem blaming these guys for this bug, that missile system was built to shoot down aircraft, not missiles. Aircraft that might be travelling at subsonic speeds
Right? I mean this isn't a real story is it? Surely the latest most bloated version of windows isn't buggy and unreliable? Surely even if it was the cats ass it wouldn't be the case that a bunch of morons tossed the disk in and clicked install without backing anything up, and their box was either inadequate oddly configured has defective hardware, three tons of viruses and trojans, nevermind the terminal stupidity of the people who are trying to do the upgrade.
This is unbelievable.
DSL is absolutely the way to go. I used on it a 586 133 a couple years ago and it rocked and a K6 233, and it really kicked ass on. I think it was a Pentium 2 350, that last one ran firefox pretty nicely if I recall correctly.
I used to hit this empty domain, three times a day, before there was ever a slashdot. I hoped someday there's be a website here, and it would be about technology news, and news in the new era. Before that I sent postcards to slash dot oregon, that just said First Post!
Myspace makes my eyes bleed, I'm old, get off my lawn, etc, I don't participate in facebook, I think twitter is largely inane and stupid, it's an internet distribution list for stupid OMFG LOOK AT THIS LOL! posts from idiots...
However, Twitter and Facebook, while I find them inane and largely irrelevant to my aged lifestyle do not make my eyes bleed, my head explode and my browser crash, as I'm assuming myspace would, if I'd ever look at it with IE, or with javascript turned on etc... blech...
More likely he'll be electrocuted in his basement shower while trying to transport to your IP address and kill you with his... Uhm.. whatever those double ended ridiculous knife things are called. (Sorry Klingon lovers, I'm sure it's the all time superior weapon, like a Katana with cruise control or something)
Well, that's not exactly how I'd put it, your job, and your bosses job and everyone's job is to make the company money. Your boss, if he's any good at all knows that it's his job to make sure the people directly being productive, in ways that lead to sales, have what they need, get the help and support they need, etc. It's all about making money. The better a company is at making money the more room there is to have fun, relax, pay the employees etc. The more money you make the company the less likely it is someone can screw it up so badly you'll all end up unemployed, etc...
You're screwed. It's one thing to sit and make fun of your boss when he/she isn't around and make fun of how little they know about your day to day job duties, how little skill they have etc. That's all well and good, even a bit of dystopian dilbert-speak is fine, but when it becomes true, or when you really believe it to be true, you're screwed.
"make absolutely certain that I know you have my back at all times whether I'm right or wrong. [1] If you do this then I will fight for you to the bitter end and do everything but demand whoever wants you fired meet me the parking lot"
What a lovely boss you sound like. What about the not so lovely bosses who when pressured in some way from above decide the politically expedient thing that will advance their career is to cut you loose.
Or perhaps I'm leaving out the portion "make absolutely certain that I know you have my back at all times whether I'm right or wrong". Which could be interpreted as "make absolutely sure you are my biggest suck-up, lackey, sycophant. Wash my car on the weekends. Babysit my kids for me. Prepare my Powerpoint briefings. Work 80 hours but report only 50."
Well, I did say the better your boss the better these things will work, didn't I? If your boss is worth working for, or your job is worth keeping you'll make sure you get paid for everything you do, start that at day one and never compromise, I do a lot of dumb sh*t for my employer and a lot of "above and beyond" stuff, but I make sure I get paid for it all. Although of course not by the hour.
However, I did say to make damn sure you do everything you can to convince your boss he's wrong when he's making a mistake, stomp your feet, yell scream, whatever it takes during the "open debate" period, once your boss has signed off on a mistaken course of action you do need to follow along blindly to slaughter. (I'm being a bit sarcastic, sometimes your boss will actually be right when you think they're being foolish, sometimes the course of action may still be doomed to fail, but they are still doing the right thing for reasons that aren't immediately obvious, and that may well be stupid, most PHBs have an even Pointier-Haired-Boss of their own.
You are essentially saying to hold one's boss in no way accountable. And if you do so, make sure it is a killing blow to them.
Movable type printing is not a useless skill either, as far as I'm concerned. (Yeah I learned that in school come to think of it)
To properly understand the things you're doing now it's never a bad idea to learn how they were developed.
I have possibly the worst handwriting of anyone in my generation, but I still say it's a worthwhile endeavor to learn to achieve serviceable cursive handwriting. There are many situations in the cold hard real world that don't involve a post apocalyptic future where all electronics have been rendered useless by a massive EMP, that do warrant nice neat cursive handwriting. Say meetings at work? Say, writing a note for coworkers? A love letter? Your diary? Just the freaking idea that you should know how to write by hand? I find this sort of thing a fascinating testament to how fast attitudes change and apparently how old I'm getting, but on the other hand you do need to learn to write, also get off my lawn.
There might be some inherent value in knowing how to use the underlying skills that make up the essential underpinnings of literacy? Gee I don't know, I use a calculator to do all my math at work, why should I learn how to do long division?
You solved the problem the customer presented in 6 minutes? How many hours did it take you to learn to solve this problem? How many minutes did it take you the first time a customer called with a similar problem? You are not really screwing over this customer by charging them an hour for solving this problem. Your job is presumably to make money for your employer after all.
Guys, can you stop enabling lower life forms and pests to recover from any injury or indignity that we can dish out? You're teaching decapitated cockroaches to live for days, paralyzed rats to walk, dead fish to think. Is it any wonder our days as the dominant species are over?
I for one welcome our... undead invulnerable rat/fish overlords?
The moon has enough gravity to retain a significant atmosphere, for a long long time, even a geologically significant amount of time. Millions of years by some calculations, look at google groups, check out rec.arts.science possibly you can show me I'm wrong, if so nifty. The moon does not have enough gravity to have captured, or to have retained whatever atmosphere it would have had after it's capture, or more likely creation after the impact that probably formed the moon and changed the earth into the planet we have today.
However even with a huge magnetic field, once you put any sort of trace atmosphere on the moon these craters would cease to be the coldest places around and the superconductors would warm up and stop being superconductors etc.
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First. Managing people and dealing with corporate politics is something I actually know a thing or two about, developing, not so much. (although I've been mucking around programming things since nine-teen-seventy-something, among many other things.)
Many developers imagine themselves to be unique snowflakes, who are so much smarter and better at their jobs than anyone else could possibly ever be, again, this is something I understand. (I work in manufacturing, with engineers, toolmakers and quality people, all of whom either, are smart and know how to do things you don't, or think they do, to varying degrees.)
If you don't want to get fired remember these rules.
Don's rules for being essential, and thus not getting fired.
The better your boss is, the better these will work.
1: Remember who the boss is at all times. When it is you then act like it all times. When it is not you, remember that at all times.
1.1: Have your bosses back at all times, no matter what.
2: When your boss asks for your input give it, argue fight scream, yell explain why he or she is utterly wrong and you are right, do not pull punches.
3: Once your boss has made a decision, even if it is utterly wrong, accept it, go with it, do your best to make it work, if it is even remotely possible. If not, try your best to soften the crash landing. (Hint, sometimes your boss has made a doomed or stupid decision because someone told him he had to, or for some reason he can't explain to you, see rule 1.1)
4: Do brag, do point out when you and why you are useful and what it is you do that makes the company money, and makes your bosses life easier. These are your two primary functions as an employee. Being smart, being cool, coding/designing/solving problems etc.. That's all corollary in nature to making your employer money and making your boss happy.
5: Remember your boss may be a pointy-haired idiot, but he is your boss. (This is worth repeating.)
6: If you feel the need to stab your boss in the back, you make absolutely certain you are going to inflict a fatal wound, and you will have a new boss afterwords. Absolutely certain. (Uhm.. Please keep in mind I mean in a business/employment sense, please don't kill anyone because of what I post on/. However if you do feel the need to kill someone, it is probably better to finish the job with a single stabbing.)
7: Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
8: Revenge is a dish best served cold, and anonymously.
9: It is always better to avert any disaster or crisis from happening than it it to be sure you can blame it on someone else. Even if you have a chance to pin it on an enemy, or someone who is incompetent or stupid, don't stab anyone in the back unless it's a fatal wound.
10: In any workplace battle or argument, keep in mind what you stand to lose and what you stand to win, there are times when it is better to cave in and accept defeat even though you are right, than it is to win a bloody hard fought victory which will leave hard feelings on both sides for some time to come.
10.1: This rule applies even when you are smarter than the other side of the argument.
10.2: Even when they are stupid.
10.3 Yes this means you.
11: In terms of internal office conflicts do not forget to give those people you are fighting with a face saving way out no matter how wrong they are, no matter how stupid they are, they are people to, if you glory in explaining and demonstrating how smart you are at their expense today, then someday in the future they will be the one's preparing you a nice cold dish full of anonymous revenge.
Finally: Don't be a dick, don't be controversial for no good reason, like I said several times above, if I am your boss, make absolutely certain that I know you have my back at all times whether I'm right or wrong. [1] If you do this then I will fight for you to the bitter end and do everything but demand whoever wants you
Good point, good post.
I wonder what the timescale to seriously reduce the demand for heating/cooling energy is? I would imagine it takes a whole new generation of buildings to seriously reduce the cost of heating and cooling them. The efficiency of appliances, while significant isn't the answer.
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I'm hoping I make three. /. slowly becomes more like FARK with the passing of time. Things get dumbed down and the shouting content goes up. There's suddenly a wave of empowered bigotry against the religious and religion in general. Primarily from people who like to think they're smart, probably most of them are smart. I don't get why that is. I do get that a lot of is a backlash against the particularly intolerant strains of religions, but I'm always amused at the ease with which these tolerance police glibly stereotype people based on their religion, as long as it's either a big on that's an easy target, or a funny one with a lot of celebrities. If I were a little smarter my only response to them would be something like "Stalin wuz atheist like U sew U sux0r!" or something.
However
Our opinions are of very little value, when it comes to most subjects we're somewhere between uninformed and stupid. I watch the news because I want them to ask someone who actually has expertise on the subject, people who have knowledge about these subjects. I know an awful about a very few things, and damn little about almost every thing else. I can come to /. and find out what other geeks think about any and everything, but for the 14 minutes I'm watching TV news at one time I too would like them to trot out an actual expert, not the tweeted opinion of some moron from Delaware. (I have nothing against morons from Delaware. In fact, as I noted earlier when it comes to the vast majority of subjects I'm a moron, as are most of us.)
I do it like this.
I use a super-secret, my wife doesn't know it password for the mission critical life-changing passwords.
For web sites and forums there's a formula in my head, based on the web site name, truncated and a mathematical operation.
If you were to somehow aquire In the IT part of your job only remember the one's you have to, don't try to store or remember your users e-mail password etc, just the one you need to reset their password.
You can use the same formula, for your work related passwords. Keeping a paper list of them in your locked fire-file or safe at work isn't crazy, and the risks of you getting hit by a bus are probably greater than the risk of ninjas breaking in to steal your login info.
Nerds, geeks, people who can read. I would imagine the Slashdot demographic to be more than a bit smart-assed, 85% male with a median age of about 30? But certainly with enough geezers like myself for the Barney Miller reference to get some traction.
Am I the only one who's worried that if and when we get into a shooting war against a country who's military is primarily goat-based they'll have hacked these things and just shut them all off? Or jam them, or worse, turn them against us? Especially the jamming and just shutting them all of parts. Are these electronics using parts made in China? Is there a windows operating system connected to the network that's connected to the network, that runs these things? The next uber-botnet is going to allow you to not only send male enhancement spam but to slaughter civilians with your own army of predator drones? (Also, obligatory skynet reference and COOL)
1: Canadians aren't even Americans. 2: Sounds liberal, don't they believe in evolution in Canada or something? 3: What I want to know is how you capture the exhaust? Doesn't this create tremendous backpressure or parasitic loss on the motor to compress/cool/capture all this gunk? One of those is a real comment.
All these currently popular "zombie products" Of which I'm a big fan, (I'm wearing a shirt which has a zombie on it right now. It is Halloween after all) are about the "Zombie Apocalypse" as the parent correctly points out, it's that stand-in for nuclear war and general societal breakdown, things we really don't want to think about. But the Zombie Apocalypse lets us play with the elements of those breakdowns without giving us nightmares about fallout or EMP. That's always been my theory anyway.
But that does not matter one bit. The Patriot missiles won the first gulf war. Yes I meant that, the scud was a political weapon, the attacks were intended to trick Israel into getting into the war and creating a political meltdown. These scud attacks weren't going to do a serious amount of damage in real terms, to anything. The Patriots seemed to intercept them at least some of the time and they removed much of the terror of the these terror attacks. As a political weapon it was awesome.
Now back to the point. The Patriot wasn't originally intended to intercept targets going that fast, it was meant to shoot down airplanes, so it wasn't designed initially to cope with targets going that fast. The whole problem as described isn't that computers suck at math. It's that reality isn't digital and when you represent it as such you need to be very careful. But I still have a problem blaming these guys for this bug, that missile system was built to shoot down aircraft, not missiles. Aircraft that might be travelling at subsonic speeds
Right? I mean this isn't a real story is it? Surely the latest most bloated version of windows isn't buggy and unreliable? Surely even if it was the cats ass it wouldn't be the case that a bunch of morons tossed the disk in and clicked install without backing anything up, and their box was either inadequate oddly configured has defective hardware, three tons of viruses and trojans, nevermind the terminal stupidity of the people who are trying to do the upgrade. This is unbelievable.
DSL is absolutely the way to go. I used on it a 586 133 a couple years ago and it rocked and a K6 233, and it really kicked ass on. I think it was a Pentium 2 350, that last one ran firefox pretty nicely if I recall correctly.
I used to hit this empty domain, three times a day, before there was ever a slashdot. I hoped someday there's be a website here, and it would be about technology news, and news in the new era. Before that I sent postcards to slash dot oregon, that just said First Post!
Myspace makes my eyes bleed, I'm old, get off my lawn, etc, I don't participate in facebook, I think twitter is largely inane and stupid, it's an internet distribution list for stupid OMFG LOOK AT THIS LOL! posts from idiots... However, Twitter and Facebook, while I find them inane and largely irrelevant to my aged lifestyle do not make my eyes bleed, my head explode and my browser crash, as I'm assuming myspace would, if I'd ever look at it with IE, or with javascript turned on etc... blech...
Did it find pluto back? I heard we lost Pluto a while back.
More likely he'll be electrocuted in his basement shower while trying to transport to your IP address and kill you with his... Uhm.. whatever those double ended ridiculous knife things are called. (Sorry Klingon lovers, I'm sure it's the all time superior weapon, like a Katana with cruise control or something)
Well, that's not exactly how I'd put it, your job, and your bosses job and everyone's job is to make the company money. Your boss, if he's any good at all knows that it's his job to make sure the people directly being productive, in ways that lead to sales, have what they need, get the help and support they need, etc. It's all about making money. The better a company is at making money the more room there is to have fun, relax, pay the employees etc. The more money you make the company the less likely it is someone can screw it up so badly you'll all end up unemployed, etc...
You're screwed. It's one thing to sit and make fun of your boss when he/she isn't around and make fun of how little they know about your day to day job duties, how little skill they have etc. That's all well and good, even a bit of dystopian dilbert-speak is fine, but when it becomes true, or when you really believe it to be true, you're screwed.
"make absolutely certain that I know you have my back at all times whether I'm right or wrong. [1] If you do this then I will fight for you to the bitter end and do everything but demand whoever wants you fired meet me the parking lot" What a lovely boss you sound like. What about the not so lovely bosses who when pressured in some way from above decide the politically expedient thing that will advance their career is to cut you loose. Or perhaps I'm leaving out the portion "make absolutely certain that I know you have my back at all times whether I'm right or wrong". Which could be interpreted as "make absolutely sure you are my biggest suck-up, lackey, sycophant. Wash my car on the weekends. Babysit my kids for me. Prepare my Powerpoint briefings. Work 80 hours but report only 50."
Well, I did say the better your boss the better these things will work, didn't I? If your boss is worth working for, or your job is worth keeping you'll make sure you get paid for everything you do, start that at day one and never compromise, I do a lot of dumb sh*t for my employer and a lot of "above and beyond" stuff, but I make sure I get paid for it all. Although of course not by the hour.
However, I did say to make damn sure you do everything you can to convince your boss he's wrong when he's making a mistake, stomp your feet, yell scream, whatever it takes during the "open debate" period, once your boss has signed off on a mistaken course of action you do need to follow along blindly to slaughter. (I'm being a bit sarcastic, sometimes your boss will actually be right when you think they're being foolish, sometimes the course of action may still be doomed to fail, but they are still doing the right thing for reasons that aren't immediately obvious, and that may well be stupid, most PHBs have an even Pointier-Haired-Boss of their own.
You are essentially saying to hold one's boss in no way accountable. And if you do so, make sure it is a killing blow to them.
Yeah, pretty much.
To properly understand the things you're doing now it's never a bad idea to learn how they were developed.
I have possibly the worst handwriting of anyone in my generation, but I still say it's a worthwhile endeavor to learn to achieve serviceable cursive handwriting. There are many situations in the cold hard real world that don't involve a post apocalyptic future where all electronics have been rendered useless by a massive EMP, that do warrant nice neat cursive handwriting. Say meetings at work? Say, writing a note for coworkers? A love letter? Your diary? Just the freaking idea that you should know how to write by hand? I find this sort of thing a fascinating testament to how fast attitudes change and apparently how old I'm getting, but on the other hand you do need to learn to write, also get off my lawn.
There might be some inherent value in knowing how to use the underlying skills that make up the essential underpinnings of literacy? Gee I don't know, I use a calculator to do all my math at work, why should I learn how to do long division?
You solved the problem the customer presented in 6 minutes? How many hours did it take you to learn to solve this problem? How many minutes did it take you the first time a customer called with a similar problem? You are not really screwing over this customer by charging them an hour for solving this problem. Your job is presumably to make money for your employer after all.
"Your Job" Is largely to make sure your manager succeeds in his job. Period. Never forget this, seriously.
I for one welcome our... undead invulnerable rat/fish overlords?
However even with a huge magnetic field, once you put any sort of trace atmosphere on the moon these craters would cease to be the coldest places around and the superconductors would warm up and stop being superconductors etc.
Many developers imagine themselves to be unique snowflakes, who are so much smarter and better at their jobs than anyone else could possibly ever be, again, this is something I understand. (I work in manufacturing, with engineers, toolmakers and quality people, all of whom either, are smart and know how to do things you don't, or think they do, to varying degrees.)
If you don't want to get fired remember these rules.
Don's rules for being essential, and thus not getting fired.
The better your boss is, the better these will work.
1: Remember who the boss is at all times. When it is you then act like it all times. When it is not you, remember that at all times.
1.1: Have your bosses back at all times, no matter what.
2: When your boss asks for your input give it, argue fight scream, yell explain why he or she is utterly wrong and you are right, do not pull punches.
3: Once your boss has made a decision, even if it is utterly wrong, accept it, go with it, do your best to make it work, if it is even remotely possible. If not, try your best to soften the crash landing. (Hint, sometimes your boss has made a doomed or stupid decision because someone told him he had to, or for some reason he can't explain to you, see rule 1.1)
4: Do brag, do point out when you and why you are useful and what it is you do that makes the company money, and makes your bosses life easier. These are your two primary functions as an employee. Being smart, being cool, coding/designing/solving problems etc.. That's all corollary in nature to making your employer money and making your boss happy.
5: Remember your boss may be a pointy-haired idiot, but he is your boss. (This is worth repeating.)
6: If you feel the need to stab your boss in the back, you make absolutely certain you are going to inflict a fatal wound, and you will have a new boss afterwords. Absolutely certain. (Uhm.. Please keep in mind I mean in a business/employment sense, please don't kill anyone because of what I post on /. However if you do feel the need to kill someone, it is probably better to finish the job with a single stabbing.)
7: Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
8: Revenge is a dish best served cold, and anonymously.
9: It is always better to avert any disaster or crisis from happening than it it to be sure you can blame it on someone else. Even if you have a chance to pin it on an enemy, or someone who is incompetent or stupid, don't stab anyone in the back unless it's a fatal wound.
10: In any workplace battle or argument, keep in mind what you stand to lose and what you stand to win, there are times when it is better to cave in and accept defeat even though you are right, than it is to win a bloody hard fought victory which will leave hard feelings on both sides for some time to come.
10.1: This rule applies even when you are smarter than the other side of the argument.
10.2: Even when they are stupid.
10.3 Yes this means you.
11: In terms of internal office conflicts do not forget to give those people you are fighting with a face saving way out no matter how wrong they are, no matter how stupid they are, they are people to, if you glory in explaining and demonstrating how smart you are at their expense today, then someday in the future they will be the one's preparing you a nice cold dish full of anonymous revenge.
Finally: Don't be a dick, don't be controversial for no good reason, like I said several times above, if I am your boss, make absolutely certain that I know you have my back at all times whether I'm right or wrong. [1] If you do this then I will fight for you to the bitter end and do everything but demand whoever wants you
Good point, good post. I wonder what the timescale to seriously reduce the demand for heating/cooling energy is? I would imagine it takes a whole new generation of buildings to seriously reduce the cost of heating and cooling them. The efficiency of appliances, while significant isn't the answer.