I found the official numbers of the national budget institute (NIBUD). You can see that the average consumption is quite a bit lower than your expenditure.
Mechanical translation provided by Google, just scroll down to "Electricity".
1 person household: 2220 kWh
2 person household: 3095 kWh
3 person household: 3875 kWh
Is 720 kWh really reasonable in your part of the world?
I'm using 1700 kWh a year and that is about average for my a dutch household. Heating and cooking is gas-based and obviously there is no AC needed here.
[...] a creationist could quote you as evidence that his opponents are arrogant morons [...]
They could do that. What they should do, but never will do, is develop an independent thought and ask themselves why they choose to hang on to a severely misguided and dangerous cult.
And the greeks didn't have access to either calculus or to telescopes.
Look up Archimedes. He is widely credited with laying the foundation of calculus.
I don't think we do ourselves any favours by trying to get things banned from teaching.
There is a lot we don't teach children. We don't teach them that the sun revolves around the earth. We don't teach them 2 + 2 = 5. We should also not teach them the fairytales of a few deranged retards that creationism is.
Science is based heavily on faith,,
It isn't. Don't fool yourself. What you might think is faith, is the gap between a model of reality and reality itself. Simplified it goes like this:
Observe a phenomenon that you can't explain with current theory;
Think what could/should be changed about the current model of reality (the theory) to make this fit;
With this new model, predict some other phenomena;
Experiment to check this;
If there is experimental evidence, hooray! You now have a better theory! If not, go to step 2.
With this, you end up with a better theory, a better model of reality. And YES, scientist KNOW that this is not the truth, that everyday a rival theory could explain reality better, simpler or more complete. This is the scientific method. No faith required.
There are always bits of evidence that don't fit our theories or models, and we have to be honest about that.
Yes, these gaps are what make good scientist go "hmmm, I wonder if...", right before they go off to do science.
Evolution isn't as obvious as people like to claim. If it is, then why did it take until 1859 for The Origin of Species to be published, which was more than 100 years after Linneaus described the systematic nature of biology?
The fact that the earth revolves around the sun isn't as obvious as people like to claim, If it is, why did it take until Galileo, which was more than thousands of years after the Greek had access to math?
The single most important handbrake on the development of human intellect has always been religion.
My collection of CD-R's has no, repeat no disks in it that are completely readable after five years. Some started to get bad after a few months, others held out for a few years. Out of 300+ disks [b]none[/b] of them can be read error free (these are from several manufacturers and qualities). Finally I moved to backups on hard disk.
If anyone knows of a way to read my old CD-R's, even if it is [b]one[/b] time only, let me know.
It may end up that building proprietary apps on a GNU/Linux platform means completely avoiding even the standard system libraries, if your app isn't GPL you can't use GPL system libraries at that point.
And that would be the end of commercial development of software for GNU/Linux. Not saying it's good or bad, but that's what will happen.
Now everybody else is considering going to PostgreSQL.
Which is a better outcome than one could have hoped for. Postgresql is so unbelievably more stable and robust it isn't even funny anymore. MySQL might have been OK for read-only web backends, but let's not pretend it is a real RDBMS.
Postgresql, however, is technologically better and has a better license. What's not to love?
Also, hefty fines against the stupid people that buy V1@gRa and c1aLi$ online. Somewhere around "everything-they-own-plus-one-dollar". Or just kill them also. It's not like the world will miss them.
I've got a library of around a thousand books, paper ones. So, let's say I switch to ebooks from now on. What happens with my old books? NOTHING, that's what.
If there is a way to download or buy (at very, very low cost, remember, I already bought the rights to read the text) all my old books then, and only then, I'll switch to an e-book reader.
As a matter of fact, I'll switch today I that means getting back the imperial cubic truckload of space my books take up now.
I've taken a sabbatical about a year ago. It should have lasted about six months, so far it's just over a year. I just can't seem to get myself to go working ever again. Work is tedious, it's boring.
I can support myself for a few months more, but then I must get a job as I need the money. I'm terrified by the tought alone.
In my Grand Plan stupid people and stupid ISP's are not a problem for long as they are disconnected. That way either they will get their act together or they can enjoy their own little network. Want to play with the rest of the world? Then learn to behave responsible.
We are talking about the same thing. Even with one hit a day there is money to be made. Say it makes a cent per page per day. Now multiply with a couple hundred million pages and you get the picture. And it doesn't cost them anything and it's fully automated.
If you let your domain expire it will have an ad page on it within the day. Guaranteed.
It's millions upon millions per day. It is a two cents here, one cent there. But there are many, many sites with these ad laden pages.
The best part is that the operators of these sites don't pay anything for their domains. They do a 'sample' and return the domain after a few days for a full refund. Then they snag the same domain for a new sample period via another company under the same management.
I'm sort of sad and happy at the same time to hear that Omega has been abandoned. Sad because it set out to solve a problem which I run into sometimes. But happy because it is completely and utterly unfit for the task it set out to solve. At least at the time I needed it.
Of course, I shouldn't be to hard on it, as it, eventually, did enable me to get my output the way I sort of wanted.
However, I would pay good money for a TeX implementation that was completely Unicode aware, complete with the appropiate font support.
Man, don't get me started at (the lack of) font support in TeX...
I've been fairly involved in the TeX world. I started with LaTeX, but after a year I found it to be limiting enough to switch to TeX with a set of custom macro's.
Yes, you have to proofread your document after typesetting. Ofcourse you have to do that. But the problem isn't hard. An overfull hbox? Rephrase that paragraph slightly. Hyphenation control is excellent.
The lack of real Unicode support irks me too, I've needed it on a project. In the end I used a severely kludges Omega setup. I would not care to do that ever again.
The music distributing companies should make their minds up.
You either:
1. Buy (and subsequently own) the music on the physical media. Then you are legally allowed to do whatever you want with it, including selling.
or
2. Buy a license to listen to the music. Then you can media-shift all you want, as you are licensing the music. You never have to rebuy it either, if your disk breaks, just download the music, you already have a license.
This thievery has to stop. It is insane.
Imagine a world where the people weren't such meek sheep.
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Mechanical translation provided by Google, just scroll down to "Electricity".
1 person household: 2220 kWh
2 person household: 3095 kWh
3 person household: 3875 kWh
Average over all households: 3230 kWh
I'm using 1700 kWh a year and that is about average for my a dutch household. Heating and cooking is gas-based and obviously there is no AC needed here.
You say that as if it would be a bad thing!
They could do that. What they should do, but never will do, is develop an independent thought and ask themselves why they choose to hang on to a severely misguided and dangerous cult.
And the greeks didn't have access to either calculus or to telescopes.
Look up Archimedes. He is widely credited with laying the foundation of calculus.
There is a lot we don't teach children. We don't teach them that the sun revolves around the earth. We don't teach them 2 + 2 = 5. We should also not teach them the fairytales of a few deranged retards that creationism is.
Science is based heavily on faith,,
It isn't. Don't fool yourself. What you might think is faith, is the gap between a model of reality and reality itself. Simplified it goes like this:
- Observe a phenomenon that you can't explain with current theory;
- Think what could/should be changed about the current model of reality (the theory) to make this fit;
- With this new model, predict some other phenomena;
- Experiment to check this;
- If there is experimental evidence, hooray! You now have a better theory! If not, go to step 2.
With this, you end up with a better theory, a better model of reality. And YES, scientist KNOW that this is not the truth, that everyday a rival theory could explain reality better, simpler or more complete. This is the scientific method. No faith required.There are always bits of evidence that don't fit our theories or models, and we have to be honest about that.
Yes, these gaps are what make good scientist go "hmmm, I wonder if...", right before they go off to do science.
Evolution isn't as obvious as people like to claim. If it is, then why did it take until 1859 for The Origin of Species to be published, which was more than 100 years after Linneaus described the systematic nature of biology?
The fact that the earth revolves around the sun isn't as obvious as people like to claim, If it is, why did it take until Galileo, which was more than thousands of years after the Greek had access to math?
The single most important handbrake on the development of human intellect has always been religion.
It's worth a try, at least. Thanks!
If anyone knows of a way to read my old CD-R's, even if it is [b]one[/b] time only, let me know.
And that would be the end of commercial development of software for GNU/Linux. Not saying it's good or bad, but that's what will happen.
Also, if you are going to try it out, please also have a look at the wonderful PgAdminIII. Brix will be shat, as they say... ;-)
16 Terabyte... ;-)
Which is a better outcome than one could have hoped for. Postgresql is so unbelievably more stable and robust it isn't even funny anymore. MySQL might have been OK for read-only web backends, but let's not pretend it is a real RDBMS.
Postgresql, however, is technologically better and has a better license. What's not to love?
Also, hefty fines against the stupid people that buy V1@gRa and c1aLi$ online. Somewhere around "everything-they-own-plus-one-dollar". Or just kill them also. It's not like the world will miss them.
If there is a way to download or buy (at very, very low cost, remember, I already bought the rights to read the text) all my old books then, and only then, I'll switch to an e-book reader.
As a matter of fact, I'll switch today I that means getting back the imperial cubic truckload of space my books take up now.
Disclosure: I have nothing to do with them apart from being a very satisfied customer.
I've taken a sabbatical about a year ago. It should have lasted about six months, so far it's just over a year. I just can't seem to get myself to go working ever again. Work is tedious, it's boring.
I can support myself for a few months more, but then I must get a job as I need the money. I'm terrified by the tought alone.
There are a couple of simple steps to eliminate spam:
- - ISP disconnects zombified/botnetted clients, stating the reason to the customer;
- - Other ISP's blacklist ISP's that don't do this;
- - Owners of companies that advertise by spam are rounded up and shot (or fined heavily, if you prefer);
- - Countries that don't play nice get blacklisted and/or totally shut off from the internet.
Result: no more spam.We are talking about the same thing. Even with one hit a day there is money to be made. Say it makes a cent per page per day. Now multiply with a couple hundred million pages and you get the picture. And it doesn't cost them anything and it's fully automated. If you let your domain expire it will have an ad page on it within the day. Guaranteed.
It's millions upon millions per day. It is a two cents here, one cent there. But there are many, many sites with these ad laden pages. The best part is that the operators of these sites don't pay anything for their domains. They do a 'sample' and return the domain after a few days for a full refund. Then they snag the same domain for a new sample period via another company under the same management.
Of course, I shouldn't be to hard on it, as it, eventually, did enable me to get my output the way I sort of wanted.
However, I would pay good money for a TeX implementation that was completely Unicode aware, complete with the appropiate font support.
Man, don't get me started at (the lack of) font support in TeX...
Yes, you have to proofread your document after typesetting. Ofcourse you have to do that. But the problem isn't hard. An overfull hbox? Rephrase that paragraph slightly. Hyphenation control is excellent.
The lack of real Unicode support irks me too, I've needed it on a project. In the end I used a severely kludges Omega setup. I would not care to do that ever again.
Don't use Microsoft Word for serious work then. Computer typesetting is a solved problem. Has been since the eighties.
You either:
1. Buy (and subsequently own) the music on the physical media. Then you are legally allowed to do whatever you want with it, including selling.
or
2. Buy a license to listen to the music. Then you can media-shift all you want, as you are licensing the music. You never have to rebuy it either, if your disk breaks, just download the music, you already have a license.
This thievery has to stop. It is insane.
Imagine a world where the people weren't such meek sheep.
Could you point me to a URL, so that I may try it out for myself? Or is it, in traditional Redmond fashion, a lot of talk and no substance at all?