It gets worse. Fuel cells use exotic metals (platinum namely).
That may be fine for a few experimental operations, but what happens when we try to put those in *millions* of vehicles? The price would quickly be impractical / unaffordable.
Yes, you would eventually get to a sustainable level for recycling, but platinum would take a very very long time to get to that level, platinum is just plain rare.
As usual it is a bad "car analogy". If you take your standard tires up to 200 mph, they *will* fail. The point being: Should *everyone* have to buy 200 mph rated tires just because you might need them?
That would get very expensive for everyone, even those that don't need 200 mph rated tires.
If you want that kind of software, it will cost you dearly. In a market economy, "good enough" and "perfect" naturally segregate themselves into separate markets. Most people choose "good enough" and enjoy the cost savings.
You are correct in your post, unfortunately the laws over-reached and got it all wrong as usual. You use the word 'algorithm' in all your examples: those can truly be non-obvious and 'contribute to the advancement of the sciences'.
The 'business process' patents are what most people have a problem with. How can what is essentially a 'flow-chart' (much of which has probably existed in offices and maintained on paper for many years) be patentable?
I also moved from WI to OR about 3 years ago. (I've lived in various places as well.) Personally, I honestly liked quite a few things about WI. (I'm from the Northwoods with lots of hills and lakes and open places).
I simply got sick of the long freezing-cold winters.
Meh. Yahoo! and Slashdot are both American companies. Also: http://slashdot.org/faq/editorial.shtml#ed850/. Saving time by using available data is still a valid post, even if it does not apply world-wide.
A simple parser can interpret "CA", "Contra Costa" the keyword(s) [County] and [border]. A parser is needed, but the very sleep inducing article otherwise brings nothing to the table.
The summary indicates that it is a new 'tagging' system, but in reality it is mostly about a better language parser (There are already some very good ones). The summary indicates that they are trying to to a "re-naming" of all this. A parser results in: "California", "Counties", [Contra Costa] => [borders].
This already exists many times over. There are many systems where everything is already numbered, Geo-coded, cross-correlated, and tagged with names.
Slashdot really needs to do something similar with a moderation topic like they did with the Presidential election:
Make a front page article that allows all of us to talk about the moderation system / ask questions and make comments without being 'off-topic' etc. It seems like you see moderation questions leak into the comment section fairly often.
They could maybe do that as a front page story 1 time every year (April First?).
I'm using Comcast in the Pacific Northwest. I get roughly the same (a bit faster upload). I get phone, internet, + ~72 cable channels for US$110.00 a month.
They use speedburst, so page loads peak at 25MB and are pretty good.
They also have a 250GB limit (IIRC) per month, although I personally don't really use that much, I think they will need to increase that over the years.
Yes, I was not very clear, I meant Solar-Thermal. We are in PNW, but the thermal still works reasonably well. Sorry that I was not clear. He did not like the solar-electric costs.
Otherwise it's very funny to me (from a time-frame sense). I had the exact same discussion about this with the person that I mentioned in solar. The Rural Electrification Act was phased out years ago, and I brought up the fact that conventional electric line to a new private residence is almost impracticable. A nice cabin in the woods is easier to out-fit with solar than trying to run privately funded lines to the same place (you might need a small generator to run the laundry or something big, otherwise it works OK).
That conversation was just 2 days ago:)
Agreed about subsidies. Also, water is subsidized as well.
I was just making a counter point for fellow slashdotters to read. I read your other (later) post with a link back to Canada wanting to fight the water transport(Our posts agreed).
I also read your (much later) post about solar water heating, and funny enough I had a co-worker that had looked into solar-electric and stated it was too expensive even including subsidies. I recommended the solar-water heater as something to look into as it would have a decent payout period.
That's great if the infrastructure is in place... Otherwise have fun digging up the entire city's streets to every home to install a new insulated hot water pipe.
Many of the older densely populated cities have this, but that is not where data-centers are being built.
It is possible to spend more money / energy costs in trying to re-build all of that than you would save in energy and costs? The terms 'TANSTASAFL' and 'missed opportunity' seem to apply here. (unfortunately)
Those states can draw up all the plans they want. The Great Lakes Basin Compact http://www.glc.org/about/glbc.html/ (recognized by congressional consent) says otherwise.
There is also that small problem about the sovereign nation of Canada owning about half of those lakes. Good Luck with that. (That last bit was sarcasm)
I really hate this idea that society outweighs the individual.
So it's OK if someone poisons your water by pouring toxic waste into the river (to save a few bucks), thereby forcing the entire populace to import their water / install expensive systems to clean it up (thousands of people multiplied by much more than you saved) ???
So it's OK if you hire armed gun-men and snipers (because you have the money) to dominate a good fishing river and place gill-nets across the river to catch 100% of the fish for personal profit even if it destroys that resource forever ???
So it's OK if your burn down the next 10 houses around you because you didn't want to have trash handled properly and you decided to put up a home-built incinerator that let fly-ash go uncontrolled.... too bad that they didn't leave their yard as bare dirt and chop down their trees for your convenience ???
Sorry, but the only 'repression' here is _NOT_ having (at least some) areas where society outweighs the individual. I can't believe your at +5 for that drivel.
I have used this strategy since around the late 1990's.
1 Strictly private account.
1 account for ligit businesses like banks and such.
1 account for 'questionable' material that I might like, and
1 account for "Gee, you need an email... here you go weird sites".
The spam rate for each one is what you would expect, but friends and family & real business gets done correctly. The 2 spam accounts are not that important if I miss 1 or 2.
I have repeated this old strategy to others many times and I am always amazed at how many people mention: "That's a good idea!".
In your post you are trying to have it both ways. On the one hand you are saying that a profit newspaper needs to sell papers (that is NOT where the money is made) in order to survive.
Then in the next statement you assume that 'large contributors' would be stupid enough to support something that you are insinuating is going to be ignored ("just needs to please the few large contributors").
That is self-contradictory and tin-foil-hat-conspiracy-theory thinking at best. (That, or I you were not very clear).
Short answer: No. I assumed you were generalizing all code bases, I was only taking issue with the 'consensus' part of your post. Not a flame to you, just a different perspective that I was mentioning.
This may be a Windows vs. Linux thing, but for me spaces are the rare exception. Tabs are the consensus. I've been programming Windows for about 15 years now and have only 1 time seen a single spaced indented program. Since I'm not used to that it was rather hard for me to read, although I still got it fixed.
Good question! I am not a rocket scientist of course, but here is my take on this.
In a given collision there will be any particles emanating in a 360 degree sphere. It follows that one of the pieces will gain momentum and also gain a higher orbit. Others will be on the other side and lose momentum. (This assumes a perfect head-on collision)
Most of the pieces will get highly elliptical orbits (going down or up = elliptical since they have the same momentum) and some will lose momentum by being on the front side of the collision.
My comment was hoping that the elliptical orbits would introduce atmospheric drag and reduce the debris field.
I'm just a random slashdot person but I think that I have it figured out mostly correctly?
Slashdot Mirror
It gets worse. Fuel cells use exotic metals (platinum namely).
That may be fine for a few experimental operations, but what happens when we try to put those in *millions* of vehicles? The price would quickly be impractical / unaffordable.
Yes, you would eventually get to a sustainable level for recycling, but platinum would take a very very long time to get to that level, platinum is just plain rare.
As usual it is a bad "car analogy". If you take your standard tires up to 200 mph, they *will* fail. The point being: Should *everyone* have to buy 200 mph rated tires just because you might need them?
That would get very expensive for everyone, even those that don't need 200 mph rated tires.
If you want that kind of software, it will cost you dearly. In a market economy, "good enough" and "perfect" naturally segregate themselves into separate markets. Most people choose "good enough" and enjoy the cost savings.
You are correct in your post, unfortunately the laws over-reached and got it all wrong as usual. You use the word 'algorithm' in all your examples: those can truly be non-obvious and 'contribute to the advancement of the sciences'.
The 'business process' patents are what most people have a problem with. How can what is essentially a 'flow-chart' (much of which has probably existed in offices and maintained on paper for many years) be patentable?
Therein lies the rub.
That would only work well for plants that are acid-tolerant, or in locations that have alkaline soil.
Good for you if you can use it.
And 2 hours ($10.00) to download a text-only edition. How far we have come.
I simply got sick of the long freezing-cold winters.
Meh. Yahoo! and Slashdot are both American companies. Also: http://slashdot.org/faq/editorial.shtml#ed850/. Saving time by using available data is still a valid post, even if it does not apply world-wide.
The summary indicates that it is a new 'tagging' system, but in reality it is mostly about a better language parser (There are already some very good ones). The summary indicates that they are trying to to a "re-naming" of all this. A parser results in: "California", "Counties", [Contra Costa] => [borders].
This already exists many times over. There are many systems where everything is already numbered, Geo-coded, cross-correlated, and tagged with names.
This has already been done. I have 6 year old software that could do most of this. And in that software it was already old-hat. It's called GIS.
TIGER data (free from the Federal government / census) has it, as well as many other (non-free) sources.
Re-creating all of this from scratch seems a lot like re-inventing the wheel.
Make a front page article that allows all of us to talk about the moderation system / ask questions and make comments without being 'off-topic' etc. It seems like you see moderation questions leak into the comment section fairly often.
They could maybe do that as a front page story 1 time every year (April First?).
They use speedburst, so page loads peak at 25MB and are pretty good.
They also have a 250GB limit (IIRC) per month, although I personally don't really use that much, I think they will need to increase that over the years.
I'm originally from the Midwest and still keep up with the news there. I now live in the Pacific Northwest.
Otherwise it's very funny to me (from a time-frame sense). I had the exact same discussion about this with the person that I mentioned in solar. The Rural Electrification Act was phased out years ago, and I brought up the fact that conventional electric line to a new private residence is almost impracticable. A nice cabin in the woods is easier to out-fit with solar than trying to run privately funded lines to the same place (you might need a small generator to run the laundry or something big, otherwise it works OK).
That conversation was just 2 days ago :)
Agreed about subsidies. Also, water is subsidized as well.
I also read your (much later) post about solar water heating, and funny enough I had a co-worker that had looked into solar-electric and stated it was too expensive even including subsidies. I recommended the solar-water heater as something to look into as it would have a decent payout period.
We aren't disagreeing. Cheers.
Many of the older densely populated cities have this, but that is not where data-centers are being built.
It is possible to spend more money / energy costs in trying to re-build all of that than you would save in energy and costs? The terms 'TANSTASAFL' and 'missed opportunity' seem to apply here. (unfortunately)
There is also that small problem about the sovereign nation of Canada owning about half of those lakes. Good Luck with that. (That last bit was sarcasm)
You changed the subject by reconciling the topic from an absolute solution to a more tempered idea.
That was my point.
So it's OK if someone poisons your water by pouring toxic waste into the river (to save a few bucks), thereby forcing the entire populace to import their water / install expensive systems to clean it up (thousands of people multiplied by much more than you saved) ???
So it's OK if you hire armed gun-men and snipers (because you have the money) to dominate a good fishing river and place gill-nets across the river to catch 100% of the fish for personal profit even if it destroys that resource forever ???
So it's OK if your burn down the next 10 houses around you because you didn't want to have trash handled properly and you decided to put up a home-built incinerator that let fly-ash go uncontrolled.... too bad that they didn't leave their yard as bare dirt and chop down their trees for your convenience ???
Sorry, but the only 'repression' here is _NOT_ having (at least some) areas where society outweighs the individual. I can't believe your at +5 for that drivel.
Yes he is.
1 Strictly private account.
1 account for ligit businesses like banks and such.
1 account for 'questionable' material that I might like, and
1 account for "Gee, you need an email... here you go weird sites".
The spam rate for each one is what you would expect, but friends and family & real business gets done correctly. The 2 spam accounts are not that important if I miss 1 or 2.
I have repeated this old strategy to others many times and I am always amazed at how many people mention: "That's a good idea!".
Then in the next statement you assume that 'large contributors' would be stupid enough to support something that you are insinuating is going to be ignored ("just needs to please the few large contributors").
That is self-contradictory and tin-foil-hat-conspiracy-theory thinking at best. (That, or I you were not very clear).
4 space indentation is my favorite as well. (I don't program Python)
Cheers.
This may be a Windows vs. Linux thing, but for me spaces are the rare exception. Tabs are the consensus. I've been programming Windows for about 15 years now and have only 1 time seen a single spaced indented program. Since I'm not used to that it was rather hard for me to read, although I still got it fixed.
In a given collision there will be any particles emanating in a 360 degree sphere. It follows that one of the pieces will gain momentum and also gain a higher orbit. Others will be on the other side and lose momentum. (This assumes a perfect head-on collision)
Most of the pieces will get highly elliptical orbits (going down or up = elliptical since they have the same momentum) and some will lose momentum by being on the front side of the collision.
My comment was hoping that the elliptical orbits would introduce atmospheric drag and reduce the debris field.
I'm just a random slashdot person but I think that I have it figured out mostly correctly?
IANARC, so I might be wrong. Cheers.