There's also the attitude to regulation. In the chemical industry, in the UK at least, the emphasis is on the operator to prove that it's safe, not on the government to regulate where it's unsafe. This is a much more sensible and comprehensive system than regulatory micro-management.
Overall thermodynamic efficiency of coal generation is low, at around 33% for a modern plant. Assuming that 33% is converted into useful energy (3.35TW), then there must be 2*3.35 (c. 7TW) converted into waste heat.
Of course, waste heat doesn't have to be wasted; it could be used in district heating schemes for example, though this would not account for much. Also, newer cycles, like integrated gasification cycles, would be more efficient.
That doesn't tell you how much energy wind turbines will remove, or how much they'll dump back as heat, but it gives you an idea of the status quo.
I wouldn't have mentioned it, but since we're talking about languages...
It's monolingual, from the Greek. It goes with bilingual, from the Latin. If it were unilingual (Latin) then we would presumably say dualingual (Greek).
Ah English. You make no sense, but I love you anyway.
As a Brit, I probably shouldn't say this, but I thought the pen was a fantastic gift. The symbolism worked on so many levels. Much like the Resolute desk.
It is the same. In fact, if MPs wish to accept a gift personally, they have to pay its full market value. That includes the Prime Minister. There was a funny story at the start of Blair's first term; President Chirac sent him some rare and expensive French wine as a birthday gift. As Ian Hislop commented at the time;
He's basically sent Blair a large fine.
The Daily Show thought it was bad too, it wasn't only the British media. It won't affect relations between the US and the UK, but it does show a lack of awareness of the world on the part of the Obama administration.
Most modern British TVs (the LCD ones) are NTSC compatible too. If Jacqui gets us to pay for her porno*, I'm sure Brown has got us to shell out for a nice flatscreen.
*I know they say it's her husband's, but I don't believe a word.
I see that you, along with all romantics, have entirely neglected the role that Africans themselves played in the slave trade. Slaves traded across the Atlantic were bought from African dealers. I have yet to see any Afro-Americans demanding apologies from Africans, let alone reparations.
Britain was one of the first nations to abolish this hideous practice (by democratic choice, not "force"), before any African nation did, and Britain did more than most to bring an end to it. Even after the Atlantic slave trade was brought to a halt by the British and later American navies, innocent Africans were being sold into slavery by Africans to Arabs. Yet still Britain seems to have the majority of the blame for the slave trade forced upon it. This seems deeply unfair to me.
The point is that for Mao, Stalin, etc. their religious preferences were incidental to their communism-inspired mass-murder. They didn't kill people because they were atheist, but because they disliked opposition or genuinely believed that planting rice more densely would increase production, instead of causing starvation.
Equally, Mussolini and Franco were Catholics, but they didn't murder in the name of Christ, but in the name of political expedience. I'm just so fed up of this "Hitler* and Stalin were atheist, therefore atheism is evil" meme that I need to stamp it out before it even gets the chance to flourish in a conversation.
For what it's worth, I don't think atheists make better or worse leaders than secularists of any faith. I do think that religious rule of any stripe can only be a bad thing though.
It must surely depend on how he found out. If it was from an email exchange and the use of some grey matter then I think the rep. was well within his rights. If he used access to government files to do it, then things are a little different.
But, looking inadvertantly in the red laser triggers the eye reflex, something what infra-red light would not, as you don't perceive it.
This is similar to the reason you need UV protection on sunglasses; your pupils widen, and accept more radiation that they would otherwise on a bright day.
Is ten minutes a day really that conservative? I know booting machines feel like they're taking an age, but normally it's only a minute or so. How many times do you turn your computer on/off a day? What is making you watch it doing so instead of doing something else?
I always remind people that religion, by definition, must 1) make no sense, 2) be impossible to prove/have no observable evidence and/or 3) be directly contradicted by observable evidence
If you believe in something that makes sense and is demonstrably true, then it's not a religious belief. It's only 'faith' if it's nonsense or obviously wrong.
Yeah, but CS majors are supposed to know that kind of thing. What's worrying for Microsoft is that people for whom "computer" is synonymous with "Windows" aren't able to differentiate between Windows and Linux as they could between Windows and OS X.
You can sneer at the ignorant masses, but they're the people computers are sold to.
Wrong. There is a British localisation of Windows, to deal with the fact that we have different keyboards, currency, timezone and spellings. You can pick UK as an entity distinct from the rest of the Anglosphere in the installation process, much as you do with the friendlier GUI installers on Linux.
Don't know what Ash-Fox is talking about re: paper sizes though, all my Windows comps chose A4 as the default paper size.
5) Don't autostart your application launcher. I don't want to slow down everything on my computer to marginally speed up opening pdfs on the off-chance that I will.
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There's also the attitude to regulation. In the chemical industry, in the UK at least, the emphasis is on the operator to prove that it's safe, not on the government to regulate where it's unsafe. This is a much more sensible and comprehensive system than regulatory micro-management.
All very well and good, but how are you going to tie quantum theory back into the financial sector's desperately bad regulation, smart boy?
Overall thermodynamic efficiency of coal generation is low, at around 33% for a modern plant. Assuming that 33% is converted into useful energy (3.35TW), then there must be 2*3.35 (c. 7TW) converted into waste heat.
Of course, waste heat doesn't have to be wasted; it could be used in district heating schemes for example, though this would not account for much. Also, newer cycles, like integrated gasification cycles, would be more efficient.
That doesn't tell you how much energy wind turbines will remove, or how much they'll dump back as heat, but it gives you an idea of the status quo.
Re: Coal fires. Very interesting article in the Economist a week or so back about subterranean fires in old coal mines.
I wouldn't have mentioned it, but since we're talking about languages...
It's monolingual, from the Greek. It goes with bilingual, from the Latin. If it were unilingual (Latin) then we would presumably say dualingual (Greek).
Ah English. You make no sense, but I love you anyway.
They're both NASA links. I think we can trust them to do their stats.
Yeah, I was agreeing with you wholeheartedly.
As a Brit, I probably shouldn't say this, but I thought the pen was a fantastic gift. The symbolism worked on so many levels. Much like the Resolute desk.
It is the same. In fact, if MPs wish to accept a gift personally, they have to pay its full market value. That includes the Prime Minister. There was a funny story at the start of Blair's first term; President Chirac sent him some rare and expensive French wine as a birthday gift. As Ian Hislop commented at the time;
He's basically sent Blair a large fine.
The Daily Show thought it was bad too, it wasn't only the British media. It won't affect relations between the US and the UK, but it does show a lack of awareness of the world on the part of the Obama administration.
Most modern British TVs (the LCD ones) are NTSC compatible too. If Jacqui gets us to pay for her porno*, I'm sure Brown has got us to shell out for a nice flatscreen.
*I know they say it's her husband's, but I don't believe a word.
He still wasn't an atheist.
Also, not Christian != not religious. Not monotheist != not religious either.
I see that you, along with all romantics, have entirely neglected the role that Africans themselves played in the slave trade. Slaves traded across the Atlantic were bought from African dealers. I have yet to see any Afro-Americans demanding apologies from Africans, let alone reparations.
Britain was one of the first nations to abolish this hideous practice (by democratic choice, not "force"), before any African nation did, and Britain did more than most to bring an end to it. Even after the Atlantic slave trade was brought to a halt by the British and later American navies, innocent Africans were being sold into slavery by Africans to Arabs. Yet still Britain seems to have the majority of the blame for the slave trade forced upon it. This seems deeply unfair to me.
The Queen owns the government, she is not part of it. Hence, Her Majesty's Government, as well as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
And you've just written tomorrow's 'Sun' headline.
The point is that for Mao, Stalin, etc. their religious preferences were incidental to their communism-inspired mass-murder. They didn't kill people because they were atheist, but because they disliked opposition or genuinely believed that planting rice more densely would increase production, instead of causing starvation.
Equally, Mussolini and Franco were Catholics, but they didn't murder in the name of Christ, but in the name of political expedience. I'm just so fed up of this "Hitler* and Stalin were atheist, therefore atheism is evil" meme that I need to stamp it out before it even gets the chance to flourish in a conversation.
For what it's worth, I don't think atheists make better or worse leaders than secularists of any faith. I do think that religious rule of any stripe can only be a bad thing though.
*Hitler wasn't even remotely atheist.
It must surely depend on how he found out. If it was from an email exchange and the use of some grey matter then I think the rep. was well within his rights. If he used access to government files to do it, then things are a little different.
But, looking inadvertantly in the red laser triggers the eye reflex, something what infra-red light would not, as you don't perceive it.
This is similar to the reason you need UV protection on sunglasses; your pupils widen, and accept more radiation that they would otherwise on a bright day.
Or was correct.
It took a lot of conversation to reach this insight.
Is ten minutes a day really that conservative? I know booting machines feel like they're taking an age, but normally it's only a minute or so. How many times do you turn your computer on/off a day? What is making you watch it doing so instead of doing something else?
+1 insightful and pithy retort.
I always remind people that religion, by definition, must
1) make no sense,
2) be impossible to prove/have no observable evidence and/or
3) be directly contradicted by observable evidence
If you believe in something that makes sense and is demonstrably true, then it's not a religious belief. It's only 'faith' if it's nonsense or obviously wrong.
Yeah, but CS majors are supposed to know that kind of thing. What's worrying for Microsoft is that people for whom "computer" is synonymous with "Windows" aren't able to differentiate between Windows and Linux as they could between Windows and OS X.
You can sneer at the ignorant masses, but they're the people computers are sold to.
Wrong. There is a British localisation of Windows, to deal with the fact that we have different keyboards, currency, timezone and spellings. You can pick UK as an entity distinct from the rest of the Anglosphere in the installation process, much as you do with the friendlier GUI installers on Linux.
Don't know what Ash-Fox is talking about re: paper sizes though, all my Windows comps chose A4 as the default paper size.
5) Don't autostart your application launcher. I don't want to slow down everything on my computer to marginally speed up opening pdfs on the off-chance that I will.
Explain? I can't decide if your post is cryptically insightful or just content-free aside from a vague, zeitgeist-ish, anti-corporate rant.