One problem was solved. Now the other problem needs to be solved. Namely, what causes students to snap and to do that in the first place.
^ This... As I said in my longer post, the mental healthcare system in this county is terrible, we don't offer support and help to those in trouble early enough, we wait until they snap and do something stupid...
While this is a nice idea, and it will of course reduce the response time of law enforcement, it misses the point.
People take guns to school because schools are "gun free zones". They even have big signs posted around them saying, "You are in a gun-free zone".
So... the bad guy is assured that he is the only person with a gun...
How many people walk into police stations and start shooting? Ok, ok, I'm sure it has happened once, somewhere... Does it happen NEARLY as often as school shootings?
Armed teachers, armed parents, would solve this problem. Heck, armed teenagers would solve this problem. When my father went to school, you could still bring your.22 rifle to school, they had a shooting club and people had gun racks in the pack of their pickup trucks. No one would have dreamed of shooting up that school, 20 or 30 kids had guns there.
Of course, the REAL issue isn't even guns, it is mental health. We have kids who are unstable, unbalanced, and unloved, and the system does nothing for them. There is no way to identify problem or challenged kids and get them some help before they go off the deep end.
This isn't limited to kids, we have the same problem with adults. The mental health care system in this county is sad, we don't offer help early enough to those who need it and as a result, we have people who go crazy and do stupid stuff.
I hate to tell you... but you're missing the obvious, as is that blog that you linked to...
The Soviet Union didn't increase spending because they COULDN'T. They simply didn't have the money.
They were faced with a United States that was pulling way ahead, between Star Wars (which wasn't real) and the Stealth Fighter and Stealth Bomber (which were), and many other new weapons... The Soviet Union simply couldn't compete...
So they gave up, knowing they couldn't keep up.
The spending worked just the way it was supposed to. If the Soviet Union could have spent it, they would have and the cold war would still be here.
I shouldn't have to be a mechanic to own a car, or be a doctor to manage my blood pressure, so others shouldn't need to be an IT guru to read email, watch cat videos, and chat with friends on facebook.
Yes, and that is why I think Apple has sold a billion iPhones and iPads...
And if the prices were reasonable, I think they'd sell a ton of Macs as well...
Since Office can be purchased for the Mac, honestly I'd buy my Mom a Mac if they were stupid priced.
There's an easy solution to that problem. Don't fix it and tell her why.
I've thought about that... but the truth is, she's my Mom and I can't do that... She loves me, she brought me into this world, and if her one great fault is a refusal to be knowledgeable in computers, well... I'm not perfect either...
People want their computers to be like their cars.
They don't want to know what is happening under the hood. They just want to drive it.
Yes, and frankly, I think that is why so many iPhones and iPads have been sold.
Technical people look at those and say, "oh my god, a locked down inferior device that costs more, who wants that crap".
You know what? A lot of people do... How many? About a billion... That's right, between all the models of iPhone and iPad, about 1 billion of them have been sold, give or take a bit...
Clearly a lot of people DO want that...
If Microsoft sold a locked down version of Windows, I think people would actually buy it. I know I'd buy a copy for my Mom.
In case you're the one who usually buys her a computer, she's the perfect use case for a cheap Chromebook.
Yes, she is actually... except that Microsoft Office isn't offered on the Chromebook, neither is Internet Explorer (I've installed Chrome, she won't use it)...
She has a few small applications and games that she likes to play, while I could find similar stuff on Chrome (or Mac, or Linux), she doesn't want to change.
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So why do I keep cleaning her machine? Because she is my Mother, I love her, and that is what a good son does for his Mother.
Computer hygiene should be taught like personal hygiene, at the school level for the kids and through other public programs to try to reach the adults and the elderly.
Are you kidding?:) My mother turned 70 years old this year, and comes from another time...
In 11th grade, she spend her second half of the year as an exchange student in France. She sailed there on the RMS Queen Elizabeth. No, not the QE2, the original... Back then, you didn't fly across the Atlantic, you sailed...
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Get her a Mac? Get her a Chromebook? Yea, I've thought about that. She knows Windows, she has used it for 20 years, and frankly, she doesn't want to change.
You can't help someone who doesn't want to change.
The truth is, many people are using technology today without really understanding any of it. Even my own wife is pretty gumby with computers, if I wasn't there to do something about it, I have no doubt they would be full of malware and viruses.
To quote my own Mother, "I don't want to learn all that technical stuff, I just want to use my computer".
Yea, I have to say, I have to clean her machine off of crap every year. Every time I go over there, Internet Explorer has 5 or 6 toolbars installed because she clicks on everything.
And no, she won't let me restrict and lock down the machine, I've tried that.
Honestly, why should we believe you this time? After all the lies, after breaking the law, after your mass data collections... What possible reason should we have to believe you?
TechReview did a test of the AMD octocore versus the middle of the line i5 and for the power bill to make the i5 a better buy would mean you would have to keep the i5 in service FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS!!
And I've seen comparisons that put the number closer to 3 years.
There are a lot of ways to make those numbers move, depending on what you're trying to say.
Besides, a Haswell Core i5 will beat the 8 core (that really isn't) AMD chip most of the time anyway.
The fact is, the top end AMD chips use between 50% to 100% more power than similar performance Intel chips. The total amount of power may not be huge, but it does add up over time.
It somewhat depends of course on what you pay for power. I pay 11 cents per kw/h, so it is minor to me. My brother-in-law in Australia pays 26 cents per kw/h, so it matters more to them.
Then there is the fact that if you have to run AC in your house, the hotter your machine, the more AC you have to run. The extra heat from the hotter chip does increase your cooling bills.
Maybe not a lot, but it does add something.
If you like AMD, more power to you. Their Athlon XP days and Thunderbird days were very nice, but since Core 2 Duo came out, they have not kept pace in the performance or power use dept.
What I do know is that I've been quoted $32K to install a 8kw system. Web sites can say anything they like, but the local company that does these installs is taking into account the actual roof, the actual space, and the actual angle to the sun, to the point where they provide written estimates of the actual power it will produce.
That 8kw system should cut my bill by more than half, but in truth, it might only do 1/3 of the bill due to all those factors.
It simply isn't worth it for that price, it would cost more to finance the system over 5 to 10 years than it would save me in monthly electric fees.
Of course, it perhaps adds something to the value of the house, and it will save power over the long term. But frankly, if the goal is saving money, there are a lot of ways to spend $32K and save more money each month.
Replacing the windows, putting more and better insulation in the house, that sort of thing.
I've already replaced my 13 SEER, 12 year old HVAC system with a 16 SEER, 2 speed, 2 stage system and that cut a bunch from the summer power bills. That was $17K to replace both systems and it will return more money in saved electric bills than the solar panels would, for half the cost.
That being said, for $20K I'd do solar, but it will be awhile I think before it gets down to that price.
DOW's claim of 12w per square foot maybe for direct sunlight with no angles... Full size solar panels usually claim 14 to 16w per square foot, for direct sun with no angles, but they never actually do that. Even a 20 degree angle cuts the power produced by more than you'd think.
You think that should be free? You think that would even be available if they couldn't sell it or prevent you from making copies?
Perhaps a 20 to 30 year copyright on a specific version of each work, so that old VHS copies could be handed out, but the Blu-Ray could not be, at least not for awhile.
In 20 years, they would have to release the codes to unlock the encryption on the disks, but by that time perhaps something new will be out, so you can watch the old 1080p copy, but the new 8k 4D super duper version would still be protected.
There is something really wrong with your numbers...
If they were even close to being right, then companies would be falling all over themselves to offer this and be able to show how it is a slam dunk investment...
There would be ads on TV, it would be major national news, it would be the talk of the town, that sort of thing...
I've priced solar panels, they are expensive and make no sense when power costs what it does.
I do, Top Gun was shot in 35mm film, VHS and even LaserDisc are bad copies of that... Blu-Ray is closer, 4K will be as close to a perfect copy as we'll get (since 35MM film has about 4,000 lines of resolution, give or take since it is analog medium).
We wouldn't even be watching Casablanca if your idea was in place, it wouldn't have been put on VHS to begin with, since copies would be free.
While I get the idea, I understand the problem with copyright being "forever", just cutting it off at the knees isn't the solution either.
Revisions of works must be protected, or no one is going to spend money doing them. Putting a movie on Blu-Ray isn't a $50 job, some movies cost over $1 million dollars to do a Blu-Ray copy, since they often have to scan the original 35MM film and clean it up frame by frame.
What you are asking for is the pre-Civil Rights Act south to be brought back.
No, because that was the government enforcing it... that was wrong... Blacks legally couldn't do a lot of things back then, including vote!
I would not want that brought back, rather I'd like to see private people still have the right to do business with whomever they want. It is like the government telling you who you must be friends with.
That is quite true, if the Americas wasn't here and he had to sail across all that ocean, you're right, they would have run out of supplies. The Earth is larger than they thought it was back then.
He had no idea how far the trip would be, there was no resupply missions sent ahead to make sure food and shelter would be there, and he didn't know what native people might be there when he arrived.
Interesting. Of course, even if we did, the basic concept could be taught as a theoretical exercise, so we probably wouldn't see that 100% certainty.
That is quite true, there is of course a middle ground between all or nothing.
I imagine we could find such a middle ground that would provide some help, without the risks of training.
Is it possible to train for this in simulators? Since you have the username "FlyHelicopters" and have said a lot about helicopters, I gather you know a little about the subject:)
It might be possible, but no such simulators exist that I've ever seen.
I have many thousands of hours of flight time in both airplanes and helicopters. I'm a Certified Flight Instructor in both airplanes and helicopter and have trained many students how to fly, including training new CFIs (which not all CFIs can do), as well as been a Chief Flight Instructor for a FAA certified Part 141 flight school.
So... yes, I know a little about the subject.:)
I stopped flying once I had kids, it really took a lot of the fun out of it, because as much as helicopter pilots like to say "oh, it is as safe as driving", it really isn't. I personally know too many people who are no longer with us who died in helicopter accidents. Airplanes are safer, but they aren't my first love, helicopters are. But they have an accident rate that I can't live with while I have young kids.
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One problem was solved. Now the other problem needs to be solved. Namely, what causes students to snap and to do that in the first place.
^ This... As I said in my longer post, the mental healthcare system in this county is terrible, we don't offer support and help to those in trouble early enough, we wait until they snap and do something stupid...
While this is a nice idea, and it will of course reduce the response time of law enforcement, it misses the point.
People take guns to school because schools are "gun free zones". They even have big signs posted around them saying, "You are in a gun-free zone".
So... the bad guy is assured that he is the only person with a gun...
How many people walk into police stations and start shooting? Ok, ok, I'm sure it has happened once, somewhere... Does it happen NEARLY as often as school shootings?
Armed teachers, armed parents, would solve this problem. Heck, armed teenagers would solve this problem. When my father went to school, you could still bring your .22 rifle to school, they had a shooting club and people had gun racks in the pack of their pickup trucks. No one would have dreamed of shooting up that school, 20 or 30 kids had guns there.
Of course, the REAL issue isn't even guns, it is mental health. We have kids who are unstable, unbalanced, and unloved, and the system does nothing for them. There is no way to identify problem or challenged kids and get them some help before they go off the deep end.
This isn't limited to kids, we have the same problem with adults. The mental health care system in this county is sad, we don't offer help early enough to those who need it and as a result, we have people who go crazy and do stupid stuff.
I hate to tell you... but you're missing the obvious, as is that blog that you linked to...
The Soviet Union didn't increase spending because they COULDN'T. They simply didn't have the money.
They were faced with a United States that was pulling way ahead, between Star Wars (which wasn't real) and the Stealth Fighter and Stealth Bomber (which were), and many other new weapons... The Soviet Union simply couldn't compete...
So they gave up, knowing they couldn't keep up.
The spending worked just the way it was supposed to. If the Soviet Union could have spent it, they would have and the cold war would still be here.
Are you kidding? There is piles and piles and piles of money on the global warming side of things...
What do you think the whole thing is about? Money... Control of money...
Then she shouldn't be allowed anywhere near any computer that's connected to the Internet.
That is so easy to say... but it has far reaching implications...
Who would enforce this?
What is the penalty for non-compliance?
I shouldn't have to be a mechanic to own a car, or be a doctor to manage my blood pressure, so others shouldn't need to be an IT guru to read email, watch cat videos, and chat with friends on facebook.
Yes, and that is why I think Apple has sold a billion iPhones and iPads...
And if the prices were reasonable, I think they'd sell a ton of Macs as well...
Since Office can be purchased for the Mac, honestly I'd buy my Mom a Mac if they were stupid priced.
That sounds like "I don't want to learn all that traffic stuff, I just want to drive on the highway."
I'm sure a lot of people said that very thing when cars were new.
She has been driving all her life, most stuff she does she has done all her life. The only really "new" stuff is the Internet.
Frankly a computer would be just fine, if it weren't connected to the Internet all the time, that is really the issue.
There's an easy solution to that problem. Don't fix it and tell her why.
I've thought about that... but the truth is, she's my Mom and I can't do that... She loves me, she brought me into this world, and if her one great fault is a refusal to be knowledgeable in computers, well... I'm not perfect either...
People want their computers to be like their cars.
They don't want to know what is happening under the hood. They just want to drive it.
Yes, and frankly, I think that is why so many iPhones and iPads have been sold.
Technical people look at those and say, "oh my god, a locked down inferior device that costs more, who wants that crap".
You know what? A lot of people do... How many? About a billion... That's right, between all the models of iPhone and iPad, about 1 billion of them have been sold, give or take a bit...
Clearly a lot of people DO want that...
If Microsoft sold a locked down version of Windows, I think people would actually buy it. I know I'd buy a copy for my Mom.
In case you're the one who usually buys her a computer, she's the perfect use case for a cheap Chromebook.
Yes, she is actually... except that Microsoft Office isn't offered on the Chromebook, neither is Internet Explorer (I've installed Chrome, she won't use it)...
She has a few small applications and games that she likes to play, while I could find similar stuff on Chrome (or Mac, or Linux), she doesn't want to change.
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So why do I keep cleaning her machine? Because she is my Mother, I love her, and that is what a good son does for his Mother.
Computer hygiene should be taught like personal hygiene, at the school level for the kids and through other public programs to try to reach the adults and the elderly.
Are you kidding? :) My mother turned 70 years old this year, and comes from another time...
In 11th grade, she spend her second half of the year as an exchange student in France. She sailed there on the RMS Queen Elizabeth. No, not the QE2, the original... Back then, you didn't fly across the Atlantic, you sailed...
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Get her a Mac? Get her a Chromebook? Yea, I've thought about that. She knows Windows, she has used it for 20 years, and frankly, she doesn't want to change.
You can't help someone who doesn't want to change.
Film at 11...
The truth is, many people are using technology today without really understanding any of it. Even my own wife is pretty gumby with computers, if I wasn't there to do something about it, I have no doubt they would be full of malware and viruses.
To quote my own Mother, "I don't want to learn all that technical stuff, I just want to use my computer".
Yea, I have to say, I have to clean her machine off of crap every year. Every time I go over there, Internet Explorer has 5 or 6 toolbars installed because she clicks on everything.
And no, she won't let me restrict and lock down the machine, I've tried that.
Honestly, why should we believe you this time? After all the lies, after breaking the law, after your mass data collections... What possible reason should we have to believe you?
That is a very large wall of text...
You are a true believer and honestly I don't think you'll listen to anything at this point...
If the AMD CPU was so good, why aren't more selling?
Even down at your $82 price they aren't selling.
TechReview did a test of the AMD octocore versus the middle of the line i5 and for the power bill to make the i5 a better buy would mean you would have to keep the i5 in service FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS!!
And I've seen comparisons that put the number closer to 3 years.
There are a lot of ways to make those numbers move, depending on what you're trying to say.
Besides, a Haswell Core i5 will beat the 8 core (that really isn't) AMD chip most of the time anyway.
The fact is, the top end AMD chips use between 50% to 100% more power than similar performance Intel chips. The total amount of power may not be huge, but it does add up over time.
It somewhat depends of course on what you pay for power. I pay 11 cents per kw/h, so it is minor to me. My brother-in-law in Australia pays 26 cents per kw/h, so it matters more to them.
Then there is the fact that if you have to run AC in your house, the hotter your machine, the more AC you have to run. The extra heat from the hotter chip does increase your cooling bills.
Maybe not a lot, but it does add something.
If you like AMD, more power to you. Their Athlon XP days and Thunderbird days were very nice, but since Core 2 Duo came out, they have not kept pace in the performance or power use dept.
What I do know is that I've been quoted $32K to install a 8kw system. Web sites can say anything they like, but the local company that does these installs is taking into account the actual roof, the actual space, and the actual angle to the sun, to the point where they provide written estimates of the actual power it will produce.
That 8kw system should cut my bill by more than half, but in truth, it might only do 1/3 of the bill due to all those factors.
It simply isn't worth it for that price, it would cost more to finance the system over 5 to 10 years than it would save me in monthly electric fees.
Of course, it perhaps adds something to the value of the house, and it will save power over the long term. But frankly, if the goal is saving money, there are a lot of ways to spend $32K and save more money each month.
Replacing the windows, putting more and better insulation in the house, that sort of thing.
I've already replaced my 13 SEER, 12 year old HVAC system with a 16 SEER, 2 speed, 2 stage system and that cut a bunch from the summer power bills. That was $17K to replace both systems and it will return more money in saved electric bills than the solar panels would, for half the cost.
That being said, for $20K I'd do solar, but it will be awhile I think before it gets down to that price.
DOW's claim of 12w per square foot maybe for direct sunlight with no angles... Full size solar panels usually claim 14 to 16w per square foot, for direct sun with no angles, but they never actually do that. Even a 20 degree angle cuts the power produced by more than you'd think.
I priced it last year, cost of a system large enough to cover half our electric use?
$32,000 including all the various costs (the panels are about half that).
Grid tie, two meters, permits, breakers, etc. all costs money.
Pay back is too long for my tastes, and we have net metering...
If it were $20K, I'd do it, but a $20k system would save us maybe $100 a month on our electric bill. Meh, not worth the trouble.
Meh, you act as if your view is gospel and anything else is just stupid.
Think about that for a minute...
Is 28 years more or less reasonable than 18, or 38?
Then we have to address revisions to works. My example, I believe, was quite reasonable for VHS to DVD to Blu-Ray.
Gone With The Wind was expensive to restore and redo for Blu-Ray:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/...
If you are being honest, you'll take 5 minutes and read that, the work that was done to make the modern copy look so good was not cheap.
How about this one:
http://miamiherald.typepad.com...
Ben Hur cost $1 million dollars to restore.
You think that should be free? You think that would even be available if they couldn't sell it or prevent you from making copies?
Perhaps a 20 to 30 year copyright on a specific version of each work, so that old VHS copies could be handed out, but the Blu-Ray could not be, at least not for awhile.
In 20 years, they would have to release the codes to unlock the encryption on the disks, but by that time perhaps something new will be out, so you can watch the old 1080p copy, but the new 8k 4D super duper version would still be protected.
Just tossing out ideas...
There is something really wrong with your numbers...
If they were even close to being right, then companies would be falling all over themselves to offer this and be able to show how it is a slam dunk investment...
There would be ads on TV, it would be major national news, it would be the talk of the town, that sort of thing...
I've priced solar panels, they are expensive and make no sense when power costs what it does.
First of all, who cares?
I do, Top Gun was shot in 35mm film, VHS and even LaserDisc are bad copies of that... Blu-Ray is closer, 4K will be as close to a perfect copy as we'll get (since 35MM film has about 4,000 lines of resolution, give or take since it is analog medium).
We wouldn't even be watching Casablanca if your idea was in place, it wouldn't have been put on VHS to begin with, since copies would be free.
While I get the idea, I understand the problem with copyright being "forever", just cutting it off at the knees isn't the solution either.
Revisions of works must be protected, or no one is going to spend money doing them. Putting a movie on Blu-Ray isn't a $50 job, some movies cost over $1 million dollars to do a Blu-Ray copy, since they often have to scan the original 35MM film and clean it up frame by frame.
What you are asking for is the pre-Civil Rights Act south to be brought back.
No, because that was the government enforcing it... that was wrong... Blacks legally couldn't do a lot of things back then, including vote!
I would not want that brought back, rather I'd like to see private people still have the right to do business with whomever they want. It is like the government telling you who you must be friends with.
That is quite true, if the Americas wasn't here and he had to sail across all that ocean, you're right, they would have run out of supplies. The Earth is larger than they thought it was back then.
He had no idea how far the trip would be, there was no resupply missions sent ahead to make sure food and shelter would be there, and he didn't know what native people might be there when he arrived.
Interesting. Of course, even if we did, the basic concept could be taught as a theoretical exercise, so we probably wouldn't see that 100% certainty.
That is quite true, there is of course a middle ground between all or nothing.
I imagine we could find such a middle ground that would provide some help, without the risks of training.
Is it possible to train for this in simulators? Since you have the username "FlyHelicopters" and have said a lot about helicopters, I gather you know a little about the subject :)
It might be possible, but no such simulators exist that I've ever seen.
I have many thousands of hours of flight time in both airplanes and helicopters. I'm a Certified Flight Instructor in both airplanes and helicopter and have trained many students how to fly, including training new CFIs (which not all CFIs can do), as well as been a Chief Flight Instructor for a FAA certified Part 141 flight school.
So... yes, I know a little about the subject. :)
I stopped flying once I had kids, it really took a lot of the fun out of it, because as much as helicopter pilots like to say "oh, it is as safe as driving", it really isn't. I personally know too many people who are no longer with us who died in helicopter accidents. Airplanes are safer, but they aren't my first love, helicopters are. But they have an accident rate that I can't live with while I have young kids.