I oppose wind power because it's often not all that "green"
Building those windmill towers takes a lot of steel and concrete that could be put to better energy use, like nuclear power.
Once upon a time, I thought that civilization was going to collapse if we didn't start building a lot of nuc power plants and soon. I was pretty wrong about that. I didn't take into account the dual effects of increasingly efficient production of solar and wind and storage, and the gains in efficiency on the consumption end.
Nuc power generation at this point has an even higher wall to climb. The trust issue has not gone away, some countries are actually thinking about going backwards for power generation, and some others are really getting into the alternative modes of production.
Another issue about Nuc power production is that while it is possible to design reactors that are pretty safe, we are talking about humans. We are talking about accountants worried about cheap, and managers worried about time, and politicians worried about votes, and corporate culture that will not brook dissent. All four of those groups tend to believe that they can eliminate the laws of physics by will or vote.
I'm sorry for rambling on for a bit, but my medicine started to kick in as I typed. I think I'mn done heire for know. goooddnight.
Dood! You're supposed to sit back and enjoy that, not argue with idiots on Slashdot. 8^)
Too many offshore windparks at one place is, indeed, a problem. If there is no wind all of them will stand still.
These places have essentially constant wind. Similar conditions exist along the Allegheny front in Eastern US. To the extent that when the wind stops, it is news there.
Reality Check. Environmentalist & non-environmentalist don't hate wind turbines in significant numbers.The anti-turbine mob are all nimbys worried about spoiling their views, and old-energy shills and their useful idiots.
While I consider myself a rational environmentalist, which gets me into a lot of arguments on both sides, I think the wind turbines look pretty nice. I'm not the only one - an artist friend of mine confessed that she found them "pretty cool."
Meanwhile, it appears that in my area there are enough wind turbines that they are actually doing some load leveling with them. That has to be a trick and a half, given the ramp-up time, but you can see them come on line, and it isn't for lack of wind. The wind is almost constant where they are placed.
Note that there's no mentioned of a time frame. I mean, "thousands" of birds a day? We should move them. "thousands" of birds a year? I'm a bit less concerned. "thousands" of birds a decade?
It is pretty much Bullshit. Birds manage to avoid all manner of moving things.
It is also amusing to see my coal burning energy friends and their deep and abiding concern bout the birds - especially the ones who shoot anything that flies for the Lulz.
Some environmentalists will oppose this because of presumed bird mortality, and many slash dotters who are definitely not environmentalists will oppose this because it is an energy source they hate.
There were some claims in the past made by many people, that Mac's don't get computer virus's.
That's true. It is also completely wrong. ome people claim many things, and some people extrapolate that to many and even everyone. That is also completely wrong.
What the Mac is, is more resistant to viruses and malware than say - Windows.
No. What the Mac is, is more resistant to WINDOWS-based viruses and WINDOWS-based malware.
By it's nature, it's vulnerability to viruses and malware differs from that of Windows. It is NOT, as some dummies would claim, "immune".
Umm, I know you'd like to rage, but while you disagree with me, that's exactly what I said. They aren't immune.
But Windows machines are inherently more vulnerable overall.
I do know I've never cleaned up a virus infected Mac, and most of them run bareback. Windows machines? Many. Now turn off your firewall and Windows defender, please, and let me know how it works out for ya.
There were some claims in the past made by many people, that Mac's don't get computer virus's.
That's true. It is also completely wrong. ome people claim many things, and some people extrapolate that to many and even everyone. That is also completely wrong.
What the Mac is, is more resistant to viruses and malware than say - Windows.
Dear BA major: Just because in your degree it's completely irrelevant whether you actually understand any of the garbage you're required to soak up, spill onto the test and forget afterwards, that doesn't mean it is that way in other venues, too. Unfortunately to be successful in CS, you not only have to swallow a book from back to back, you have to actually understand because you have to build onto that what's inside that book and go beyond it to actually solve the problems presented to you.
I don't believe you can actually do that. I mean - you can certainly write your name on the paper, and you can voluntarily choose to act as if you're required to follow that agreement... but, before a judge, even if you said "yup I willingly signed away my constitutional rights" - that judge would at best laugh, and at worst hit you with his gavel for wasting his time with something which is not legal.
In certain cases you can drastically modify your constitutional rights. If you obtain a security clearance, you commit a crime or at least a violation if you divulge any thing you shouldn't.
People have gone to prison for that.
But a nondispargement clause is almost certainly unenforceable in principle.
I suspect that this sort of asshattery has come about because of some of the high profile cases in recent years, especially when the results vindicated the companies in question.
I got the impression that it was a matter of when, not if. I'm assuming Priebus won't be far behind. At this point, and with the way Trump is treating Sessions, I can't imagine many people will want to even work for the Administration.
Only winners, my good man. Working for Trump is the ultimate achievement in anyone's life, and if you can make it through his demands of perfection - nothing he doesn't demand of himeself, you will be among the leaders in a new world shaped by Trump and the Republican party - as confirmed by th erecord number of votes for both, a sign that Amereica has had it with the liberals. This train is headed for glory, got on board or get left behind!
Seems like Outlook is just a really crappy version of Thunderbird with a Gmail account and IMAP over SSL. I particularly like Gmail's anti-SPAM, the infinite email addresses via '+', and the way I can autofilter incoming emails to different folders.
OpenOffice & LibreOffice are just amazing!
It must be nice to have money you can throw away on Microsoft...
Some years ago, I became weary of Microsoft Office's inability to achieve cross platform compatibility between Macintosh and Windows, as well as MSO not being able to open older versions. So I decided to tryo OO. Documents on the PC opened properly on the Mac, and also Linux. So by that time the Ribbon had come out, and now the whole freaking interface was different between the Macs and PC's, and OO and AO would open word documents that MSO wouldn't any more.
The choice was obvious. Except for people that are not quite so concerned about actually doing work.
That's absolutely true, the other day my Windows partition stopped letting me log in. No explanation, just an endless black screen after login. I eventually "repaired" it with boot tools but because those are automated, it didn't tell me what the problem was and though a lot of people have had similar problems, no one seems to know what really causes it. So yeah, Windows is terrible, and upgrading seems to only make Windows worse.
They could at least give us an error message. And as Windows becomes more brittle and breakable, Linux has put the lie to the
excuse that "There are so many different hardware configurations, so of course it breaks!". My Linux machines update with little fanfare and work afterward, and don't even need rebooted. I even run some fairly exotic combos. Right now I'm running Gallium on a Acer Chromebook, and it is running as smoothly as ChromeOS.
My Macs do need the occasional reboot after update, but I don't dread it because they always run.
I have a nice W10 HP envy that's about 5 months old that has been bit a few times now. In some cases, Windows update got rid of drivers and replaced them with something else and killed three programs, and the other was the unexplained black screen. I've been able to back out of the problems so far without taking drastic measures, but these problems shouldn't happen in the first place.
I've been in talks with the producer of those programs and strongly suggested that they produce a "refresh" program that after every Windows update does a deep uninstall of their software, (think Revo level) and total reinstall. Preferences would be saved and re-loaded. But they are looking at it from a political level - "Not our fault, Microsoft should fix it." - while I'm saying that psychologically, it makes them look much better.
Perhaps it is a matter of expectations. Coming from the Unix world, I demand that the computer work, and that the programs work when I open them. I believe that Windows only people have been nailed by so many failures that they see those failures as an integral part of the personal computing experience.
I always have to laugh when someone brings up the terrible driver support in Linus, which by corrolary sends teh Message that Windows has superlative support.
This.
There are lots of webcams and printers that are not supported under Windows, yet remain supported under Linux.
Let's be realistic: the whole "non-existent drivers under Linux" was always nothing more than a marketing ploy by Microsoft.
The Linux driver meme was a leftover from early days when you had to manually search for alomst everything.
But just like single button Mac Mice, Windows fans keep bringing up the long outdated memes.
In which case, I want to discuss how shitty Windows 1 is.
I really don't think you know what the Stockholm syndrome is, if one think it exists at all.
From Wikipedia:
Stockholm syndrome is a condition that causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors as a survival strategy during captivity.
That works for me. I use and work with Windows MacOS, linux and ChromeOS. So I have at least some valid experience. Windows is incredibly brittle and prone to update failures, resulting in a machine that does not function. Either via programs that worked one day, and not the next, to an office program that isn't compatible with itself, and an OS that now has become All your dat are belong to us.
Yet they proclaim the superiority of Windows.
Damn fellow, if putting up with that shit that other sOS' dont give you while braying how windows is best isn't Stockholm syndrome, nothing is.
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I oppose wind power because it's often not all that "green"
Building those windmill towers takes a lot of steel and concrete that could be put to better energy use, like nuclear power.
Once upon a time, I thought that civilization was going to collapse if we didn't start building a lot of nuc power plants and soon. I was pretty wrong about that. I didn't take into account the dual effects of increasingly efficient production of solar and wind and storage, and the gains in efficiency on the consumption end.
Nuc power generation at this point has an even higher wall to climb. The trust issue has not gone away, some countries are actually thinking about going backwards for power generation, and some others are really getting into the alternative modes of production.
Another issue about Nuc power production is that while it is possible to design reactors that are pretty safe, we are talking about humans. We are talking about accountants worried about cheap, and managers worried about time, and politicians worried about votes, and corporate culture that will not brook dissent. All four of those groups tend to believe that they can eliminate the laws of physics by will or vote.
I'm sorry for rambling on for a bit, but my medicine started to kick in as I typed. I think I'mn done heire for know. goooddnight.
Dood! You're supposed to sit back and enjoy that, not argue with idiots on Slashdot. 8^)
Too many offshore windparks at one place is, indeed, a problem. If there is no wind all of them will stand still.
These places have essentially constant wind. Similar conditions exist along the Allegheny front in Eastern US. To the extent that when the wind stops, it is news there.
Reality Check. Environmentalist & non-environmentalist don't hate wind turbines in significant numbers.The anti-turbine mob are all nimbys worried about spoiling their views, and old-energy shills and their useful idiots.
While I consider myself a rational environmentalist, which gets me into a lot of arguments on both sides, I think the wind turbines look pretty nice. I'm not the only one - an artist friend of mine confessed that she found them "pretty cool."
Meanwhile, it appears that in my area there are enough wind turbines that they are actually doing some load leveling with them. That has to be a trick and a half, given the ramp-up time, but you can see them come on line, and it isn't for lack of wind. The wind is almost constant where they are placed.
Note that there's no mentioned of a time frame. I mean, "thousands" of birds a day? We should move them. "thousands" of birds a year? I'm a bit less concerned. "thousands" of birds a decade?
It is pretty much Bullshit. Birds manage to avoid all manner of moving things.
It is also amusing to see my coal burning energy friends and their deep and abiding concern bout the birds - especially the ones who shoot anything that flies for the Lulz.
then sinks
Build it like an oil drilling platform. They never sink!
Some environmentalists will oppose this because of presumed bird mortality, and many slash dotters who are definitely not environmentalists will oppose this because it is an energy source they hate.
There were some claims in the past made by many people, that Mac's don't get computer virus's.
That's true. It is also completely wrong. ome people claim many things, and some people extrapolate that to many and even everyone. That is also completely wrong.
What the Mac is, is more resistant to viruses and malware than say - Windows.
Maybe,what I said is incomplete?
If so, it was purposeful.
No. What the Mac is, is more resistant to WINDOWS-based viruses and WINDOWS-based malware.
By it's nature, it's vulnerability to viruses and malware differs from that of Windows. It is NOT, as some dummies would claim, "immune".
Umm, I know you'd like to rage, but while you disagree with me, that's exactly what I said. They aren't immune.
But Windows machines are inherently more vulnerable overall.
I do know I've never cleaned up a virus infected Mac, and most of them run bareback. Windows machines? Many. Now turn off your firewall and Windows defender, please, and let me know how it works out for ya.
Yet it isn't, and it isn't.
Because you are wrong, and you are extremely wrong.
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
More Window$ PCs were infected by malware while reading this post.
this should be +5 informative, because it is true.
There were some claims in the past made by many people, that Mac's don't get computer virus's.
That's true. It is also completely wrong. ome people claim many things, and some people extrapolate that to many and even everyone. That is also completely wrong.
What the Mac is, is more resistant to viruses and malware than say - Windows.
I saw this happening in other telecom companies back in the 1990's. At that time they had a 1:3 to 1:5 manager/work ratio at every level.
I wish! By the time I retired, we had more managers and accountants than people doing the work we were supposed to be doing. Overhead was interesting.
Dear BA major: Just because in your degree it's completely irrelevant whether you actually understand any of the garbage you're required to soak up, spill onto the test and forget afterwards, that doesn't mean it is that way in other venues, too. Unfortunately to be successful in CS, you not only have to swallow a book from back to back, you have to actually understand because you have to build onto that what's inside that book and go beyond it to actually solve the problems presented to you.
I can't believe this isn't at +5 yet.
So does "herding", but you'll never hear a "herd" of birds.
Oh you silly - who hasn't herd of birds?
There are a lot of people who confuse university with a job training program
No top tier tech company accepts many new engineers without these credentials. Like it or not, it is a training program.
Actually a pecuniary extraction/hazing program.
I don't believe you can actually do that. I mean - you can certainly write your name on the paper, and you can voluntarily choose to act as if you're required to follow that agreement... but, before a judge, even if you said "yup I willingly signed away my constitutional rights" - that judge would at best laugh, and at worst hit you with his gavel for wasting his time with something which is not legal.
In certain cases you can drastically modify your constitutional rights. If you obtain a security clearance, you commit a crime or at least a violation if you divulge any thing you shouldn't.
People have gone to prison for that.
But a nondispargement clause is almost certainly unenforceable in principle.
I suspect that this sort of asshattery has come about because of some of the high profile cases in recent years, especially when the results vindicated the companies in question.
It's asshat versus asshat.
AC calling for people to bravely expose themselves on principle. Just another loudmouthed idiot on /.
You kinda just won the internet!
The simple, obvious solution is not to work for companies that have such an agreement.
So what do you say to someone who has offers only from such companies? Live on the street and starve?
Eat cake?
You forgot to put a sarcasm tag on this one. No need to thank me and you're welcome.
Just Poe-ing about. The dwindling pool of sycophants still believe what I wrote.
I got the impression that it was a matter of when, not if. I'm assuming Priebus won't be far behind. At this point, and with the way Trump is treating Sessions, I can't imagine many people will want to even work for the Administration.
Only winners, my good man. Working for Trump is the ultimate achievement in anyone's life, and if you can make it through his demands of perfection - nothing he doesn't demand of himeself, you will be among the leaders in a new world shaped by Trump and the Republican party - as confirmed by th erecord number of votes for both, a sign that Amereica has had it with the liberals. This train is headed for glory, got on board or get left behind!
Seems like Outlook is just a really crappy version of Thunderbird with a Gmail account and IMAP over SSL. I particularly like Gmail's anti-SPAM, the infinite email addresses via '+', and the way I can autofilter incoming emails to different folders.
OpenOffice & LibreOffice are just amazing!
It must be nice to have money you can throw away on Microsoft...
Some years ago, I became weary of Microsoft Office's inability to achieve cross platform compatibility between Macintosh and Windows, as well as MSO not being able to open older versions. So I decided to tryo OO. Documents on the PC opened properly on the Mac, and also Linux. So by that time the Ribbon had come out, and now the whole freaking interface was different between the Macs and PC's, and OO and AO would open word documents that MSO wouldn't any more.
The choice was obvious. Except for people that are not quite so concerned about actually doing work.
That's absolutely true, the other day my Windows partition stopped letting me log in. No explanation, just an endless black screen after login. I eventually "repaired" it with boot tools but because those are automated, it didn't tell me what the problem was and though a lot of people have had similar problems, no one seems to know what really causes it. So yeah, Windows is terrible, and upgrading seems to only make Windows worse.
They could at least give us an error message. And as Windows becomes more brittle and breakable, Linux has put the lie to the excuse that "There are so many different hardware configurations, so of course it breaks!". My Linux machines update with little fanfare and work afterward, and don't even need rebooted. I even run some fairly exotic combos. Right now I'm running Gallium on a Acer Chromebook, and it is running as smoothly as ChromeOS.
My Macs do need the occasional reboot after update, but I don't dread it because they always run.
I have a nice W10 HP envy that's about 5 months old that has been bit a few times now. In some cases, Windows update got rid of drivers and replaced them with something else and killed three programs, and the other was the unexplained black screen. I've been able to back out of the problems so far without taking drastic measures, but these problems shouldn't happen in the first place.
I've been in talks with the producer of those programs and strongly suggested that they produce a "refresh" program that after every Windows update does a deep uninstall of their software, (think Revo level) and total reinstall. Preferences would be saved and re-loaded. But they are looking at it from a political level - "Not our fault, Microsoft should fix it." - while I'm saying that psychologically, it makes them look much better.
Perhaps it is a matter of expectations. Coming from the Unix world, I demand that the computer work, and that the programs work when I open them. I believe that Windows only people have been nailed by so many failures that they see those failures as an integral part of the personal computing experience.
This.
There are lots of webcams and printers that are not supported under Windows, yet remain supported under Linux.
Let's be realistic: the whole "non-existent drivers under Linux" was always nothing more than a marketing ploy by Microsoft.
The Linux driver meme was a leftover from early days when you had to manually search for alomst everything.
But just like single button Mac Mice, Windows fans keep bringing up the long outdated memes.
In which case, I want to discuss how shitty Windows 1 is.
Is Windows ignoring hostfiles that phones home?!? I recommend you take your medication, psychotic factor is over 11!
http://www.blabley.org/windows...
I really don't think you know what the Stockholm syndrome is, if one think it exists at all.
From Wikipedia:
Stockholm syndrome is a condition that causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors as a survival strategy during captivity.
That works for me. I use and work with Windows MacOS, linux and ChromeOS. So I have at least some valid experience. Windows is incredibly brittle and prone to update failures, resulting in a machine that does not function. Either via programs that worked one day, and not the next, to an office program that isn't compatible with itself, and an OS that now has become All your dat are belong to us.
Yet they proclaim the superiority of Windows.
Damn fellow, if putting up with that shit that other sOS' dont give you while braying how windows is best isn't Stockholm syndrome, nothing is.