I had to wait till i got home to watch that, and now that I have, i've lost my appetite. Ugh. Those look more like legless cockroaches than silkworms - are you sure you bought the right can? I bet they taste better fresh, rather than stewing in their own juices in a can for months on end, but... ugh I can't even drink my beer now. There's something similar to that here in the US: canned chipolte peppers in adobo sauce I bought some once when I have $40 for groceries for two weeks (with an empty kitchen, so this included condiments and all) and needed a condiment.... ugh the half opened can is still sitting in my fridge I can't even bare to touch the can. They look about the same in terms of size shape and consistency... probably taste equally as horrible.
Yeah but when watching C-Span for the most part it's live house/senate coverage; you might watch for a week straight and never see your elected rep on camera. Super, ultra-mega boring. This allows you to keep an eye on your elected official and review if what he says is in line with your views or not, as opposed to what he says on the campaign trail. Plus, unlike the Obama videos, you can comment on them, so you can see what others are saying about him.
How are they served in Korea? Sounds like you ate them whole... cooked or raw? Can you get them fried? (yes I'm from the south). If they taste like beans can you grind them up into a hummus or bean dip? Refried worms, mmmm.
Are you an Israeli apologist or something? As far as major news goes, the possible ethnic clensing (because honestly, does it really look like anything else?) of the gaza strip seems like the most likely path to WW3, especially in the throes of a global economic collapse. Why yes, I can be sharp tounged to such an inflammatory post as yours. We were arguing about congress not being productive, right? Not dodging the topic at hand by throwing in pop culture references, right? Why did I not respond to your bit about pop culture? Because I don't keep up with the latest "Brangelina" drama and I dont' disagree with you on that. But yes, it is a slow news season for the US media, which was my original point.
Call me when congress passes meaningful legislation between now and Jan 21st. Which they won't. Russia turns off the gas to Ukraine and other eastern bloc countries almost every year like clockwork, see my other posts concerning that; also that's very, very low on the US's (and any non-western European country's) list of priorities. The biggest story right now is Israel's nearly illegal war against the already occupied gaza strip, which does affect our foreign policy, especially in forming new policies between Israel and the incoming Obama administration (again, I disagree with Israel's timing on this). I'm not sure what stick is up your ass but take a chill pill dude. My point was that the US has been on holiday and no meaningful laws will be passed between a week before christmas and the inauguration. Congratulations you caught me on a technicality. I'm sorry your life sucks so much that you have to take joy in small wins like this on the internet.
I know it's an asshole move to be the grammar/spelling nazi, but please tell me your finger slipped back onto the E key when spelling "being". Maybe you're just lazy and not correcting all your typos? Firefox has had spellcheck for at least two years in windows, how lazy can you be? Why, drolli, WHY?
It's not unique and others certainly have done it, but the reason we make such a big deal out of it is because it works. As in, it always works, every time. Waiting on an important email? No worries, your BB will beep you when it's in your inbox. With all your phone calls, SMS and email in chronological order, even though I have my gmail routed through it, I'd rather pick up my BB and check/send email with that than use my computer (for shorter messages). The KISS mentality and bulletproof, 100% integrated system used on a blackberry is what makes it Worth It. I've had my BB for about 6 months now and I've had exactly zero snags, hiccups or outages with instantaneous email.
The legislature is out until the inauguration, bush has kept his head down since the republican primaries and all the CEOs/marketing departments have been off since 12/15/08 or so and there won't be any major news until 1/20/09 when MLK day is over with. This is just "slow news season" filler crap to fill the airwaves while CNN, etc idle about. It's also not a coincidence that Israel decided to start a major military attack just weeks (days, really) before a new incoming president is seated in a seriously asshole international power play, but that's for another thread....
Dallas Austin and San Antoinio all have areas of the city where you can live without a car, although Dallas is the only city of the three with a real public transportation infrastructure; if you're willing to pay a 30% premium to "live in the city". East and Uptown Dallas are sufficiently urban enough that you could get by no problem without a car, if you're willing to live with the inconvenience of dealing with bus schedules and walking outdoors in July and August. Something most New Yorkers don't get is that most people don't really give a damn about their city and it's "way of life", especially as you go further and further west. I'll take the (shorter) commute by car with flexible operating costs vs. the high fixed cost of downtown living.
Yes Air Conditioning is a problem in the south. As soon as someone figures out an ultra efficient way to pump heat out of a poorly insulated house built in the 1960s-1980s, energy use in the south will drop substantially. Until then people in Texas will continue to run their AC more or less continuously from June through September.
Your link shows 0.5%/100 miles for gas vs 1.8%/100 miles for electricity; that's three times as efficient. What were we arguing about again?
"Transmission and distribution costs are about 50% of consumer prices"
Newsflash! Distribution costs = middleman's cut! When you have 15 middlemen between the source and the utility company, everyone gets a cut, and why yes, it does add up! Transmission costs are a tariff for pumping a cubic meter of the stuff through established pipelines that require no upkeep. With the exception of LPG ships, it's almost a continuous line from the ground to your heater. Inefficent wells still produce gas, and when they're no longer cost effective they stop them up and let them recharge. Someone thought this out long before you came along, and as a result energy companies make a huge wad of cash off of natural gas with a completely paid off infrastructure.
"Friction" isn't a factor; yes there is turbulence, but in straight, 100+ mile streches of pipeline it's very rare and you mostly end up with laminar flow. NYC has low carbon emissions mostly due to the fact that is has the lowest number of cars per person in the US. Also less heat is lost due to residential areas being more vertically oriented than other parts of the country.
Natural gas literally comes right out of the ground on it's own accord, and costs nothing to transport through pipelines. Sure, it's compressed to a measly 25psi but very little energy is needed to compress it to that extent. Once it's in the pipeline it costs nothing to transport, and theres pretty much zero processing done with the gas (except adding chemicals so you can smell it when the pipe leaks).
No idea why you dragged heating oil (diesel) into this. People who live far enough north that they need to heat their house with heating oil need to move south to where their yard isnt covered in snow three months out of the year. Oil refining costs depend a lot on the quality of the oil to begin with (sweet crude vs regular crude vs. canadian oil sands etc) and I dont support heating oil one bit.
Fedora doesn't have a wireless network browser? It sounds like you're making this out to be more complicated than it really is; else you're a glutton for punishment who likes to do everything from the command line and refuses to do anything that can't be done from inside emacs. I checked the fedora howtos and its about 8 lines to install ndiswrapper in the console - about the same as ubuntu.
I do know that actually. But transmission and distribution losses in the USA are estimated at 7.2%. If the longest feasable power line is 4000 miles long, and google is putting their data centers 4 miles from hydro electric plants, they're saving 7.2% more energy than other data centers on average (margin of error 0.001%).
Transmission losses are one of the biggest arguments in heating the home with gas vs. electric, since with gas you're getting 100% of the avalible heat from the fuel, as opposed to electric where at most 90% of the heat is converted into electricity at the plant, you lose another 7% in transmission and then another 1-2% in the heater itself = 18-19% energy loss from a coal or natural gas power plant vs. heating with gas in the home.
I had to do the workaround manually in 8.04 -maybe it's changed in 8.10?-; you dodged my question what distro did you have to do all that manual setup in?
Not to mention they're VERY close to the power source, which means very little power is wasted in the transmission/transmission lines. The signal from the data center to your ISP is a photon so there's very little transmission loss until it gets to the last mile. Really it's up to the consumer to have a energy efficient computer more than anything else.
I wouldn't care much either but a large percentage of laptops (my dell laptop for example) use broadcom wifi hardware and to get it to work I had to dig down to the console to implement a fix in ubuntu. Seeing as how more than 50% of consumer computers this year were laptops, this solves a very annoying issue for something like 60% of all non-thinkpad linux-laptop users.
IMO the best argument for going 64 bit only is that the quality of the drivers goes up substantially. There's no reason for someone with a 6 year old computer to need to upgrade to windows 7 (i thought vista was supposed to be a consumer grade OS?). The sooner we make the break with 32 bit, the sooner we can start amassing a huge catalog of 64 bit drivers that will rival what already exists in the 32 bit world. Hopefully it'll be 10 years or more before we need to jump to 128 bit drivers.
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I had to wait till i got home to watch that, and now that I have, i've lost my appetite. Ugh. Those look more like legless cockroaches than silkworms - are you sure you bought the right can? I bet they taste better fresh, rather than stewing in their own juices in a can for months on end, but... ugh I can't even drink my beer now. There's something similar to that here in the US: canned chipolte peppers in adobo sauce I bought some once when I have $40 for groceries for two weeks (with an empty kitchen, so this included condiments and all) and needed a condiment.... ugh the half opened can is still sitting in my fridge I can't even bare to touch the can. They look about the same in terms of size shape and consistency... probably taste equally as horrible.
Sounds like korean crawfish, but with more edible "meat".
Yeah but when watching C-Span for the most part it's live house/senate coverage; you might watch for a week straight and never see your elected rep on camera. Super, ultra-mega boring. This allows you to keep an eye on your elected official and review if what he says is in line with your views or not, as opposed to what he says on the campaign trail. Plus, unlike the Obama videos, you can comment on them, so you can see what others are saying about him.
How are they served in Korea? Sounds like you ate them whole... cooked or raw? Can you get them fried? (yes I'm from the south). If they taste like beans can you grind them up into a hummus or bean dip? Refried worms, mmmm.
Are you an Israeli apologist or something? As far as major news goes, the possible ethnic clensing (because honestly, does it really look like anything else?) of the gaza strip seems like the most likely path to WW3, especially in the throes of a global economic collapse. Why yes, I can be sharp tounged to such an inflammatory post as yours. We were arguing about congress not being productive, right? Not dodging the topic at hand by throwing in pop culture references, right? Why did I not respond to your bit about pop culture? Because I don't keep up with the latest "Brangelina" drama and I dont' disagree with you on that. But yes, it is a slow news season for the US media, which was my original point.
Call me when congress passes meaningful legislation between now and Jan 21st. Which they won't. Russia turns off the gas to Ukraine and other eastern bloc countries almost every year like clockwork, see my other posts concerning that; also that's very, very low on the US's (and any non-western European country's) list of priorities. The biggest story right now is Israel's nearly illegal war against the already occupied gaza strip, which does affect our foreign policy, especially in forming new policies between Israel and the incoming Obama administration (again, I disagree with Israel's timing on this). I'm not sure what stick is up your ass but take a chill pill dude. My point was that the US has been on holiday and no meaningful laws will be passed between a week before christmas and the inauguration. Congratulations you caught me on a technicality. I'm sorry your life sucks so much that you have to take joy in small wins like this on the internet.
I know it's an asshole move to be the grammar/spelling nazi, but please tell me your finger slipped back onto the E key when spelling "being". Maybe you're just lazy and not correcting all your typos? Firefox has had spellcheck for at least two years in windows, how lazy can you be? Why, drolli, WHY?
It's not unique and others certainly have done it, but the reason we make such a big deal out of it is because it works. As in, it always works, every time. Waiting on an important email? No worries, your BB will beep you when it's in your inbox. With all your phone calls, SMS and email in chronological order, even though I have my gmail routed through it, I'd rather pick up my BB and check/send email with that than use my computer (for shorter messages). The KISS mentality and bulletproof, 100% integrated system used on a blackberry is what makes it Worth It. I've had my BB for about 6 months now and I've had exactly zero snags, hiccups or outages with instantaneous email.
The legislature is out until the inauguration, bush has kept his head down since the republican primaries and all the CEOs/marketing departments have been off since 12/15/08 or so and there won't be any major news until 1/20/09 when MLK day is over with. This is just "slow news season" filler crap to fill the airwaves while CNN, etc idle about. It's also not a coincidence that Israel decided to start a major military attack just weeks (days, really) before a new incoming president is seated in a seriously asshole international power play, but that's for another thread....
Dallas Austin and San Antoinio all have areas of the city where you can live without a car, although Dallas is the only city of the three with a real public transportation infrastructure; if you're willing to pay a 30% premium to "live in the city". East and Uptown Dallas are sufficiently urban enough that you could get by no problem without a car, if you're willing to live with the inconvenience of dealing with bus schedules and walking outdoors in July and August. Something most New Yorkers don't get is that most people don't really give a damn about their city and it's "way of life", especially as you go further and further west. I'll take the (shorter) commute by car with flexible operating costs vs. the high fixed cost of downtown living.
Yes Air Conditioning is a problem in the south. As soon as someone figures out an ultra efficient way to pump heat out of a poorly insulated house built in the 1960s-1980s, energy use in the south will drop substantially. Until then people in Texas will continue to run their AC more or less continuously from June through September.
Your link shows 0.5%/100 miles for gas vs 1.8%/100 miles for electricity; that's three times as efficient. What were we arguing about again?
By the time windows 7 is released netbooks will be running second gen atom processors
Thanks for the heads up. I'll keep this in mind if I ever need to shop around for a gas heater.
"Transmission and distribution costs are about 50% of consumer prices"
Newsflash! Distribution costs = middleman's cut! When you have 15 middlemen between the source and the utility company, everyone gets a cut, and why yes, it does add up! Transmission costs are a tariff for pumping a cubic meter of the stuff through established pipelines that require no upkeep. With the exception of LPG ships, it's almost a continuous line from the ground to your heater. Inefficent wells still produce gas, and when they're no longer cost effective they stop them up and let them recharge. Someone thought this out long before you came along, and as a result energy companies make a huge wad of cash off of natural gas with a completely paid off infrastructure.
"Friction" isn't a factor; yes there is turbulence, but in straight, 100+ mile streches of pipeline it's very rare and you mostly end up with laminar flow. NYC has low carbon emissions mostly due to the fact that is has the lowest number of cars per person in the US. Also less heat is lost due to residential areas being more vertically oriented than other parts of the country.
Russia only pulls that shit because everyone knows you don't start a land war with Russia during winter.
Which part of my post did you not read? All of it?
Natural gas literally comes right out of the ground on it's own accord, and costs nothing to transport through pipelines. Sure, it's compressed to a measly 25psi but very little energy is needed to compress it to that extent. Once it's in the pipeline it costs nothing to transport, and theres pretty much zero processing done with the gas (except adding chemicals so you can smell it when the pipe leaks).
No idea why you dragged heating oil (diesel) into this. People who live far enough north that they need to heat their house with heating oil need to move south to where their yard isnt covered in snow three months out of the year. Oil refining costs depend a lot on the quality of the oil to begin with (sweet crude vs regular crude vs. canadian oil sands etc) and I dont support heating oil one bit.
Hey let's calculate what the energy cost is to transport coal by train !!! :) Gas transport via pipeline is about as efficent as it gets
Fedora doesn't have a wireless network browser? It sounds like you're making this out to be more complicated than it really is; else you're a glutton for punishment who likes to do everything from the command line and refuses to do anything that can't be done from inside emacs. I checked the fedora howtos and its about 8 lines to install ndiswrapper in the console - about the same as ubuntu.
I do know that actually. But transmission and distribution losses in the USA are estimated at 7.2%. If the longest feasable power line is 4000 miles long, and google is putting their data centers 4 miles from hydro electric plants, they're saving 7.2% more energy than other data centers on average (margin of error 0.001%).
Transmission losses are one of the biggest arguments in heating the home with gas vs. electric, since with gas you're getting 100% of the avalible heat from the fuel, as opposed to electric where at most 90% of the heat is converted into electricity at the plant, you lose another 7% in transmission and then another 1-2% in the heater itself = 18-19% energy loss from a coal or natural gas power plant vs. heating with gas in the home.
I had to do the workaround manually in 8.04 -maybe it's changed in 8.10?-; you dodged my question what distro did you have to do all that manual setup in?
Not to mention they're VERY close to the power source, which means very little power is wasted in the transmission/transmission lines. The signal from the data center to your ISP is a photon so there's very little transmission loss until it gets to the last mile. Really it's up to the consumer to have a energy efficient computer more than anything else.
What distro are you using? I don't recall having to do any of that when doing the ndiswrapper workaround in ubuntu
I wouldn't care much either but a large percentage of laptops (my dell laptop for example) use broadcom wifi hardware and to get it to work I had to dig down to the console to implement a fix in ubuntu. Seeing as how more than 50% of consumer computers this year were laptops, this solves a very annoying issue for something like 60% of all non-thinkpad linux-laptop users.
IMO the best argument for going 64 bit only is that the quality of the drivers goes up substantially. There's no reason for someone with a 6 year old computer to need to upgrade to windows 7 (i thought vista was supposed to be a consumer grade OS?). The sooner we make the break with 32 bit, the sooner we can start amassing a huge catalog of 64 bit drivers that will rival what already exists in the 32 bit world. Hopefully it'll be 10 years or more before we need to jump to 128 bit drivers.