Ever watched someone die of malnutrition? Didn't think so. Its completely not even faintly similar, sorry. Get off your coddled arse and go spend a year in Kibera for instance, then come talk to me about who's malnurished, K?
OK, listen asshole, since I lack the power to drop you in the middle of Pyongyang and let you learn the monstrous insulting stupidity of the drivel that drips off your keyboard this discussion is pointless. When you cannot tell the difference between Kim Jung Un and Barak Obama you are FUCKED IN THE HEAD. OK?
Liberia has VASTLY improved in the last 5 years. So have some of the other really bad West African states. Others haven't yet, but even then they are generally better places than NK, certain time periods aside. Its a fairly pointless argument anyway. ALL of them cannot be compared with the US in any reasonable way.
Ah, yeah. Frankly I've learned over the years that the best thing to do is buy standard commercial models of machines from large OEM/integrators like Dell. They do have their occasional problems but they put a lot more good engineering into a system overall than trying to build out of pieces parts, and the prices these days are about the same. Systems tend to be faster, better integrated, just all around a better value. The days of home building are sadly past (or maybe not so sadly).
Agreed. I have yet to see an Intel board cause any real problems beyond "this driver has issues" sort of stuff that you might get with anything. I think once I had to install a kernel with NOAPIC set for some obscure reason, years ago.
Trust me, I'm not "the US Population" thank you;), nor have I watched CNN or FOX news in living memory. I haven't (yet at least) been to China, Myanmar, or certainly not NK, but I've been around. If you think you know what not having freedom is about and that is the condition in the US then you didn't look around very carefully when you were in China. Did you leave the hotel? lol. The US is far from perfect, but anyone comparing it to NK or even China are not living in the real world.
Sorry, but this is just offensive bullshit. The people of NK would almost to a person kill or risk death to have a chance to live in the US. You wouldn't last a week living under the conditions they endure. While the US is of course not perfect and I'm no apologist for our shortcomings for you to even imagine you can compare the two countries on some quantitative scale in this way is as I just said ludicrous and offensive.
Just so that you understand, most people in NK would risk death to come to the US, in fact many of them do so every day just to go to China... It is not even just ludicrous to compare the US and NK, it is actively insulting to the people in NK who endure such horrible privations and violations of their basic rights.
Yes, there are some imperfections in the US, but currently we are the most fortunate and well-treated population of human beings in the history of mankind overall. It would be a good idea to keep that in mind. Of course it is fine to strive for a better and more inclusive society, but lets not lose perspective on where we are here.
In other words can the "insulting everyone's intelligence" rhetoric. It is repugnant. You're coddled, so get off that horse.;)
Well, we don't know how harsh the conditions are underground on Mars. We aren't even close to understanding how the life on Earth's surface relates to what is underground. I've never seen any estimates that the biomass of 'deep life' is all that large, but even if it is we can be certain that the energy cycling through that part of the ecosystem is MUCH MUCH smaller than what is available on the surface. Can this deep life survive on its own over geological time? This is certainly an open question. What about the lack of geochemical cycles on Mars? Its crust doesn't recycle, thus there are no carbon or other geochemical cycles beyond some very slow one-way changes on the surface due to weathering. Can life exist at all without these cycles to replenish the supplies of biologically necessary chemical species? There MAY be areas of Mars that could be said to be habitable in terms of immediate conditions, but that doesn't answer the question of whether Mars is truly suitable for life in a larger sense.
No, there's a huge difference in quality between NK and US which makes any such comparison ludicrous and false. NK is an absolute totalitarian state in which the very CONCEPTS of individual dignity, human rights, and personal autonomy are not acknowledged at all and are never exercised by individuals. Even the most trivial deviations from rigidly defined acceptable behavior is met with arbitrary and disproportionate force from an elite class of people who answer to no-one and have absolute power. Millions starve to death routinely, there is no economic progress of any kind, and whatever wealth exists is completely controlled by a tiny elite.
Now, we can complain about inequality, hunger, a political system which favors an elite, etc. However you are not subjected to anything like the sort of state power and restrictions on your freedom that you would be in NK. Nor are people routinely punished or killed in horrible ways without any recourse, etc. Is half the population of the US grossly malnurished? No. Is there no right at all to private property or even basic privacy? No. You cannot say there is any meaningful equivalence between NK and the US, thus my original comment stands.
I've more than heard of them, but that's a whole other story. NK is pretty bad, and it goes on and on decade after decade with no sign of letting up. As for "religious undertones" whatever. First you are probably grossly in error in whatever assumptions you are making about my system of beliefs, and even if you aren't it is irrelevant to the discussion so why bring it up?
I believe my own eyes and the direct reports I've gotten from people that were in these various places about what is worse than what. The list you mention are all places that have been bad, nightmarish, etc. Only NK continues on that way with no changes at all. Believe me, its bad.
[quote] Does this mean these organisms can survive on Mars? The authors are appropriately cautious, noting these conditions, while harsh, don't fully capture just how tough the conditions are there. "[These] conditions are only a subset of the total potentially biotoxic physical factors constraining the survival or growth of terrestrial microbes on Mars, such as solar UV, extreme desiccation, solar particle events, and galactic cosmic rays," they write. "In addition, the Martian regolith itself contains numerous potentially biotoxic factors, such as salinity, pH, and Eh of available liquid water; oxidizing soils created by UV-induced processes and soil chemical reactions; or the presence of heavy metals" [/quote]
Just because some bacteria can survive in a deep freeze doesn't mean they could live on Mars, not even close. Its possible of course that Mars has some areas where conditions are appropriate for Earth-like life, but if we have not yet seen them.
Don't even try to compare the US to North Korea. Nothing is perfect, but NK is as close to hell as you will ever find on Earth at any point in history (maybe slightly exceeded by Khmer Rouge era Cambodia).
There's more to it than that. Embedded chips are small and cheap, and sell in great numbers. Of course it is going to be true that a shift in the market will bring changes in everyone's business I'm not at all sure Intel can't bring in tons of money still. Its a complex situation, going to a new level of commoditization.
Nope, they get MORE than $1 a chip, which means they have more to plow back into R&D. Truthfully though, its an interesting question, but all told unless the price is substantially different we're not talking a big deal. If you pay $5 more for your x86 tablet you won't really care, assuming it works at least as well and happens to have the features you wanted/be the brand you like/etc.
I think the question is whether Intel will be able to push the x86 design down to EXTREME low cycles/watt levels. x86 has a lot of baggage that ARM doesn't, and there may be even newer designs out there that can push things further. Still, it seems Intel is brutally tough to compete with. That's good for us, as long as the competition exists. I'd hope they lose now and then.
Thin Film roll-to-roll producible type cells are in that range, in fact 6% is more common, so these seem to be a pretty decent grade of cell actually. In any case, yeah, they're obviously not going to be ganged together or used to power anything large. Still, if you're hauling 40lbs of batteries around in bum fuck nowhere Afghanistan I think you'll be real glad to stick a few of these to your gear and shed 10 lbs.
You may have a point, but it is by no means certain. I'd also assume that any changes in a TOS/UA would probably HAVE to be posted to a specified place on their site, etc, which is pretty usual regs for at least state commercial codes.
They pay me up front nowadays:) Not 100% of the project, but I can get 25-50% depending on the size of the project, and progress payments. I just don't accept anything else. Also, IME if a big company doesn't want to pay you, good luck. You MIGHT get paid, some day, after lots of expense, or you can sell it to a debt collector for $0.10 on the dollar (or less). Trying to get an invoice cleared by talking to them, well, it happens, they screw up sometimes, you gotta gauge what the situation is, but PLENTY of the big boys just DON'T pay, they never intend to and you aren't getting it out of them. Therefor don't ever advance them any substantial credit.
Amen! Actually when I was doing high volume web production we just had our own inside collections guy, but this is exactly right. Its a big hazard in the web production business. People don't like to pay. Funny how their tune changes when your collections guy starts attaching their property. hehe.
Ehhhhh, you can't generalize. I've done business with any number of Fortune 500's. Some are quite good, and they might get screwed up as you say, but they'll fix it if you can get to the right person. Others are actually actively evil and have a policy of just "fuck everyone". They will simply steal from you and flat out have no intention of ever paying.
1) Always have a signed written contract and PO whenever you deal with a large corp 2) Get paid up front before work is performed. 3) If you can't get these things then don't do business with them. Find some other sucker to do it and act as a sub. 4) Never do business with any bank of any sort whatsoever without cash up front. Don't even start until the check clears. All banks are scum, and the US banks are the worst (but not by much, UK banks are hot on their heels).
Depends. My friend here just got together with another buddy of his, they formed an LLC, became a reseller, bought the panels wholesale for 4 people's houses, got them for about 1/3 retail price all told counting discounts on shipping, etc (including all the inverters, rails, etc). Then of course they all get their various tax breaks, which knocks off about another 1/3 of the remaining cost, then you just do the install yourself (which is actually relatively easy if you're at all handy). You can get the cost for a full set of 30 standard 29v modules down to around 8k plus labor, quite affordable considering you've just easily shaved 50% off your electricity cost (we're in the Northeast here, so you can do better down south/out west, though we are paying $0.15/kwh). Obviously not EVERYONE is going to be able to do this, but frankly its just not that technically difficult if you're at all handy and can follow directions, know the electric code, etc.
He's also feeding power into a few marine batteries, which is nice. Purchase some led light tape, wire up a couple DC legs and mount it here and there, if you go off-grid you can easily have rather adequate emergency lighting 24/7 (and even run an appliance now and then off an inverter if you need to at night). No doubt you can get better battery tech if you plan to use battery power regularly, but for emergency use plain old lead/acid is fine and cheap.
Truthfully I suspect with panels likely doubling in efficiency, and batteries looking like they're going towards about 5x better price/performance and longer durability in the next 5 years by say 2017 its going to start looking viable to just generate 100% of your own power, the grid can become a backup.
OpenStack is the only thing in the industry that has any momentum. If there's going to be an open ecosystem of management tools cloud-based applications, etc it is far more likely to evolve around OpenStack than anything else.
But again, your answer to the consensus AGW theory is "it just randomly happened" which doesn't cut it. Up to a certain point that kind of thing is of course hard to distinguish from correlation, but we've substantially passed that point, thus your objection is simply dated. At this point I have a theory that has predicted what is observed to a degree that exceeds noise by about 3 sigma. You can't just ignore that. Your null hypothesis is no longer holding water. This is the whole entire problem with your position. In 1980 you could say "well, you have causality explained but you could be wrong, there's not enough data to say" but in 2012 that's not a viable argument anymore. I have causality and correlation with a signal strong enough to erase all real doubt. Beyond that I have MULTIPLE signals in the form of the pattern of warming (night time lows up the most, melting ice, increased deep ocean thermal transport, etc). It isn't just one signal. Some of them are weak, but with very few marginal exceptions they point in the same direction.
I'm not cherry picking. I'm not invoking ANYTHING except the very simplest thing, CO2 traps heat, this raises the temperature, the temperature is actually going up, the 'fingerprint' of when and where this happens matches with CO2 causation and the signal is above 3 sigma. I don't need any other arguments. I especially need not refer IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM to any aspect of weather, that's a straw man type of argument. I haven't said a damned thing about any storms, NOTHING, that's not in any way needed to support my argument. I am going right to the center of the thing, and I notice you simply never address the core of the argument, there's a greater than 3 sigma warming signal consistent with my theory. Show me a hypothesis that is even CLOSE to 3 sigma that is an alternative. You cannot. You are simply almost certain wrong, with greater than 90% probability. I would be a fool to believe what you believe.
Honestly, there just isn't anything more to be said on the subject. I'll be happy to look at your alternative hypothesis when you have one, the null hypothesis is now rejected as untenable, so you must do better. I await your alternative theory.
Slashdot Mirror
Ever watched someone die of malnutrition? Didn't think so. Its completely not even faintly similar, sorry. Get off your coddled arse and go spend a year in Kibera for instance, then come talk to me about who's malnurished, K?
OK, listen asshole, since I lack the power to drop you in the middle of Pyongyang and let you learn the monstrous insulting stupidity of the drivel that drips off your keyboard this discussion is pointless. When you cannot tell the difference between Kim Jung Un and Barak Obama you are FUCKED IN THE HEAD. OK?
Liberia has VASTLY improved in the last 5 years. So have some of the other really bad West African states. Others haven't yet, but even then they are generally better places than NK, certain time periods aside. Its a fairly pointless argument anyway. ALL of them cannot be compared with the US in any reasonable way.
Ah, yeah. Frankly I've learned over the years that the best thing to do is buy standard commercial models of machines from large OEM/integrators like Dell. They do have their occasional problems but they put a lot more good engineering into a system overall than trying to build out of pieces parts, and the prices these days are about the same. Systems tend to be faster, better integrated, just all around a better value. The days of home building are sadly past (or maybe not so sadly).
For John Steele. LOL.
Agreed. I have yet to see an Intel board cause any real problems beyond "this driver has issues" sort of stuff that you might get with anything. I think once I had to install a kernel with NOAPIC set for some obscure reason, years ago.
Trust me, I'm not "the US Population" thank you ;), nor have I watched CNN or FOX news in living memory. I haven't (yet at least) been to China, Myanmar, or certainly not NK, but I've been around. If you think you know what not having freedom is about and that is the condition in the US then you didn't look around very carefully when you were in China. Did you leave the hotel? lol. The US is far from perfect, but anyone comparing it to NK or even China are not living in the real world.
Sorry, but this is just offensive bullshit. The people of NK would almost to a person kill or risk death to have a chance to live in the US. You wouldn't last a week living under the conditions they endure. While the US is of course not perfect and I'm no apologist for our shortcomings for you to even imagine you can compare the two countries on some quantitative scale in this way is as I just said ludicrous and offensive.
Just so that you understand, most people in NK would risk death to come to the US, in fact many of them do so every day just to go to China... It is not even just ludicrous to compare the US and NK, it is actively insulting to the people in NK who endure such horrible privations and violations of their basic rights.
Yes, there are some imperfections in the US, but currently we are the most fortunate and well-treated population of human beings in the history of mankind overall. It would be a good idea to keep that in mind. Of course it is fine to strive for a better and more inclusive society, but lets not lose perspective on where we are here.
In other words can the "insulting everyone's intelligence" rhetoric. It is repugnant. You're coddled, so get off that horse. ;)
Well, we don't know how harsh the conditions are underground on Mars. We aren't even close to understanding how the life on Earth's surface relates to what is underground. I've never seen any estimates that the biomass of 'deep life' is all that large, but even if it is we can be certain that the energy cycling through that part of the ecosystem is MUCH MUCH smaller than what is available on the surface. Can this deep life survive on its own over geological time? This is certainly an open question. What about the lack of geochemical cycles on Mars? Its crust doesn't recycle, thus there are no carbon or other geochemical cycles beyond some very slow one-way changes on the surface due to weathering. Can life exist at all without these cycles to replenish the supplies of biologically necessary chemical species? There MAY be areas of Mars that could be said to be habitable in terms of immediate conditions, but that doesn't answer the question of whether Mars is truly suitable for life in a larger sense.
No, there's a huge difference in quality between NK and US which makes any such comparison ludicrous and false. NK is an absolute totalitarian state in which the very CONCEPTS of individual dignity, human rights, and personal autonomy are not acknowledged at all and are never exercised by individuals. Even the most trivial deviations from rigidly defined acceptable behavior is met with arbitrary and disproportionate force from an elite class of people who answer to no-one and have absolute power. Millions starve to death routinely, there is no economic progress of any kind, and whatever wealth exists is completely controlled by a tiny elite.
Now, we can complain about inequality, hunger, a political system which favors an elite, etc. However you are not subjected to anything like the sort of state power and restrictions on your freedom that you would be in NK. Nor are people routinely punished or killed in horrible ways without any recourse, etc. Is half the population of the US grossly malnurished? No. Is there no right at all to private property or even basic privacy? No. You cannot say there is any meaningful equivalence between NK and the US, thus my original comment stands.
I've more than heard of them, but that's a whole other story. NK is pretty bad, and it goes on and on decade after decade with no sign of letting up. As for "religious undertones" whatever. First you are probably grossly in error in whatever assumptions you are making about my system of beliefs, and even if you aren't it is irrelevant to the discussion so why bring it up?
I believe my own eyes and the direct reports I've gotten from people that were in these various places about what is worse than what. The list you mention are all places that have been bad, nightmarish, etc. Only NK continues on that way with no changes at all. Believe me, its bad.
[quote]
Does this mean these organisms can survive on Mars? The authors are appropriately cautious, noting these conditions, while harsh, don't fully capture just how tough the conditions are there. "[These] conditions are only a subset of the total potentially biotoxic physical factors constraining the survival or growth of terrestrial microbes on Mars, such as solar UV, extreme desiccation, solar particle events, and galactic cosmic rays," they write. "In addition, the Martian regolith itself contains numerous potentially biotoxic factors, such as salinity, pH, and Eh of available liquid water; oxidizing soils created by UV-induced processes and soil chemical reactions; or the presence of heavy metals"
[/quote]
Just because some bacteria can survive in a deep freeze doesn't mean they could live on Mars, not even close. Its possible of course that Mars has some areas where conditions are appropriate for Earth-like life, but if we have not yet seen them.
Don't even try to compare the US to North Korea. Nothing is perfect, but NK is as close to hell as you will ever find on Earth at any point in history (maybe slightly exceeded by Khmer Rouge era Cambodia).
There's more to it than that. Embedded chips are small and cheap, and sell in great numbers. Of course it is going to be true that a shift in the market will bring changes in everyone's business I'm not at all sure Intel can't bring in tons of money still. Its a complex situation, going to a new level of commoditization.
Nope, they get MORE than $1 a chip, which means they have more to plow back into R&D. Truthfully though, its an interesting question, but all told unless the price is substantially different we're not talking a big deal. If you pay $5 more for your x86 tablet you won't really care, assuming it works at least as well and happens to have the features you wanted/be the brand you like/etc.
I think the question is whether Intel will be able to push the x86 design down to EXTREME low cycles/watt levels. x86 has a lot of baggage that ARM doesn't, and there may be even newer designs out there that can push things further. Still, it seems Intel is brutally tough to compete with. That's good for us, as long as the competition exists. I'd hope they lose now and then.
Thin Film roll-to-roll producible type cells are in that range, in fact 6% is more common, so these seem to be a pretty decent grade of cell actually. In any case, yeah, they're obviously not going to be ganged together or used to power anything large. Still, if you're hauling 40lbs of batteries around in bum fuck nowhere Afghanistan I think you'll be real glad to stick a few of these to your gear and shed 10 lbs.
You may have a point, but it is by no means certain. I'd also assume that any changes in a TOS/UA would probably HAVE to be posted to a specified place on their site, etc, which is pretty usual regs for at least state commercial codes.
It is the actual EULA/UA that matters. Until it is properly amended all this announcement is worth is a loud stinky fart.
They pay me up front nowadays :) Not 100% of the project, but I can get 25-50% depending on the size of the project, and progress payments. I just don't accept anything else. Also, IME if a big company doesn't want to pay you, good luck. You MIGHT get paid, some day, after lots of expense, or you can sell it to a debt collector for $0.10 on the dollar (or less). Trying to get an invoice cleared by talking to them, well, it happens, they screw up sometimes, you gotta gauge what the situation is, but PLENTY of the big boys just DON'T pay, they never intend to and you aren't getting it out of them. Therefor don't ever advance them any substantial credit.
Amen! Actually when I was doing high volume web production we just had our own inside collections guy, but this is exactly right. Its a big hazard in the web production business. People don't like to pay. Funny how their tune changes when your collections guy starts attaching their property. hehe.
Ehhhhh, you can't generalize. I've done business with any number of Fortune 500's. Some are quite good, and they might get screwed up as you say, but they'll fix it if you can get to the right person. Others are actually actively evil and have a policy of just "fuck everyone". They will simply steal from you and flat out have no intention of ever paying.
1) Always have a signed written contract and PO whenever you deal with a large corp
2) Get paid up front before work is performed.
3) If you can't get these things then don't do business with them. Find some other sucker to do it and act as a sub.
4) Never do business with any bank of any sort whatsoever without cash up front. Don't even start until the check clears. All banks are scum, and the US banks are the worst (but not by much, UK banks are hot on their heels).
Depends. My friend here just got together with another buddy of his, they formed an LLC, became a reseller, bought the panels wholesale for 4 people's houses, got them for about 1/3 retail price all told counting discounts on shipping, etc (including all the inverters, rails, etc). Then of course they all get their various tax breaks, which knocks off about another 1/3 of the remaining cost, then you just do the install yourself (which is actually relatively easy if you're at all handy). You can get the cost for a full set of 30 standard 29v modules down to around 8k plus labor, quite affordable considering you've just easily shaved 50% off your electricity cost (we're in the Northeast here, so you can do better down south/out west, though we are paying $0.15/kwh). Obviously not EVERYONE is going to be able to do this, but frankly its just not that technically difficult if you're at all handy and can follow directions, know the electric code, etc.
He's also feeding power into a few marine batteries, which is nice. Purchase some led light tape, wire up a couple DC legs and mount it here and there, if you go off-grid you can easily have rather adequate emergency lighting 24/7 (and even run an appliance now and then off an inverter if you need to at night). No doubt you can get better battery tech if you plan to use battery power regularly, but for emergency use plain old lead/acid is fine and cheap.
Truthfully I suspect with panels likely doubling in efficiency, and batteries looking like they're going towards about 5x better price/performance and longer durability in the next 5 years by say 2017 its going to start looking viable to just generate 100% of your own power, the grid can become a backup.
OpenStack is the only thing in the industry that has any momentum. If there's going to be an open ecosystem of management tools cloud-based applications, etc it is far more likely to evolve around OpenStack than anything else.
But again, your answer to the consensus AGW theory is "it just randomly happened" which doesn't cut it. Up to a certain point that kind of thing is of course hard to distinguish from correlation, but we've substantially passed that point, thus your objection is simply dated. At this point I have a theory that has predicted what is observed to a degree that exceeds noise by about 3 sigma. You can't just ignore that. Your null hypothesis is no longer holding water. This is the whole entire problem with your position. In 1980 you could say "well, you have causality explained but you could be wrong, there's not enough data to say" but in 2012 that's not a viable argument anymore. I have causality and correlation with a signal strong enough to erase all real doubt. Beyond that I have MULTIPLE signals in the form of the pattern of warming (night time lows up the most, melting ice, increased deep ocean thermal transport, etc). It isn't just one signal. Some of them are weak, but with very few marginal exceptions they point in the same direction.
I'm not cherry picking. I'm not invoking ANYTHING except the very simplest thing, CO2 traps heat, this raises the temperature, the temperature is actually going up, the 'fingerprint' of when and where this happens matches with CO2 causation and the signal is above 3 sigma. I don't need any other arguments. I especially need not refer IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM to any aspect of weather, that's a straw man type of argument. I haven't said a damned thing about any storms, NOTHING, that's not in any way needed to support my argument. I am going right to the center of the thing, and I notice you simply never address the core of the argument, there's a greater than 3 sigma warming signal consistent with my theory. Show me a hypothesis that is even CLOSE to 3 sigma that is an alternative. You cannot. You are simply almost certain wrong, with greater than 90% probability. I would be a fool to believe what you believe.
Honestly, there just isn't anything more to be said on the subject. I'll be happy to look at your alternative hypothesis when you have one, the null hypothesis is now rejected as untenable, so you must do better. I await your alternative theory.