When the MHz war was in full swing I was getting rid of my PC for a new one every other year with a major upgrade at the halfway point, but now why bother?
Just to follow up on this...
Core i7 920, the first 4 core, 8 thread Nehalem processor, was rated TDP of 130W running at up to 3.33 GHz.
Core i7 4790K, the top end 4 core, 8 thread Haswell chip, is rated TDP of 88W running at up for 4.4 GHz.
That is a 32% jump in performance with a 32% reduction in max power draw.
I don't think you can call that "no difference".
Taking it another way...
Core 2 Duo E6600, (Conroe), when it launched in 2006, ran at 2.4 GHz and had a TDP of 65W with 2 cores. It cost $316
Today, you can get a Haswell based Celeron G1820T running at 2.4 GHz and it has a TDP of 35W with 2 cores. It costs $42.
Almost half the power consumption, 87% lower price, is not a "small improvement".
You're thinking of the people who might be getting royalties...
Top Gun is likely still owned by Paramount and they are earning the lions share of money from it...
Now, the question becomes... A VHS copy from 1989 might well become public domain, but what about a 2009 Blu-Ray copy?
Real work and real money goes into taking older films and making nice pretty high def versions of them.
Is the old copy public domain but the new copy protected?
If so, I don't know how much is gained, but fair enough. If not, you won't get any updated or refreshed versions of anything if you can just copy them right away.
When the MHz war was in full swing I was getting rid of my PC for a new one every other year with a major upgrade at the halfway point, but now why bother?
The upgrades back when were coming faster than they do today.
Yes, the chips do improve today, but not as much as they once did. The improvements are happening in the areas of features, energy efficiency, and cost, rather than outright performance.
That being said, C2D (Conroe) was a major improvement in performance over Netburst, and Ci7 (Nehalem) was a major improvement over Conroe.
Since Nehalem came out, they have been small improvements in outright performance, but huge improvements in feature sets, energy efficient, and cost.
What jobs do Joe and Jane Average have that won't be well served by a C2Q or Phenom X4 from 7 years ago? None, not a damned thing, in fact many can get by just fine on a C2D or Athlon X2 and never notice any difference because they just aren't stressing the chips.
That is true to a point...
Tossing a SSD and more RAM into such a machine, Windows 8 runs just fine on it, for most people...
Except, it also would suck down more power than it needs to... The same performance that took 65w or 95w of power in 2006 today can be had at 15w of power...
Those AMD chips you love so much suck down power like it was going out of style...
For example, Ghostbusters was released in 1984. It would be in the public domain. And Ghostbusters 2 - released in 1989 - would enter the Public Domain in 3 years.
This would mean that a fan could make a movie based off of Ghostbusters (perhaps with new actors taking over the roles or as a "next generation of Ghostbusters" movie).
You're confusing copyright with trademark.
Just because Ghostbusters enters the public domain doesn't mean you can make a movie called Ghostbusters 3. The Ghostbusters name is trademarked.
Hmm... let's see: the way it would work is that only the original creator could live off the royalties, but his heirs would have to actually do something productive. Sounds good to me!
Who is the original creator of the movie Top Gun?
What you said sounds great when talking about a book that one person wrote at home, it falls apart a bit when you move that to movies and other works that involved a lot of people and a lot of money to make.
According to your own chart there were 6.6million whites arrested and 2.7million blacks arrested.
You're looking at numbers of arrested? Meh, that doesn't mean much... Try the violent crime numbers, those are more interesting...
How about murders? Almost 50/50 split between white and black. Black people are three times more likely to commit a murder than white people.
Or so say the numbers. I would be willing to accept that some of that difference is due to more liberal prosecution of blacks over whites, I don't deny that exists.
But triple? That's a lot.
You bring up poverty... You're right, that isn't talked about much... So blacks have triple the poverty of whites and triple the murder rate...
I believe that. Rich people do commit murder, but not much of it. By far, violent crime is done by poor people.
So, if you want to improve the black community, getting them out of the slums and into the workforce is a good place to start. Perhaps instead of blaming "whitey", the black leadership should tell black youth to stop goofing off and get an education and make something of themselves.
BTW, I'm equal on that front, a bunch of poor white people in mid-west states are just as bad, drive through Alabama or Kentucky and there are plenty of very, very poor white people who need to stop blaming evil government and blue states for all their problems.
I suspect that if you compared white crime with black crime, money stolen by whites would completely dwarf crime committed by blacks. Bernie Madoff anyone? Why does a 16yr old black kid deserve any more attention than some accountant in the same parking lot that's been embezzling money from his work for the past 3yrs?
Because Bernie Madoff didn't use a gun or a knife to take his loot.
Black kids do far more violent crime per capita than white kids do.
That is a fair question, and we don't have enough information to answer it.
Perhaps those kids were "known" troublemakers? Perhaps they had runins in the past with the cops? Or perhaps they were guilty of being black (yes, I know that still happens).
So many train crashes over the following few years featured that key, that it ended up being UK practise that any collision between trains that caused a fatailty would automatically result in the signalman being arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
Of course the problem with that policy it is tends to change the behavior of signalmen in ways you might not expect.
If you tell me that any use of the red key will cause me to be charged with manslaughter in the event of an accident, then my incentive is to never use it, regardless of the situation.
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What I will say is that any "fail-safe" system is designed by humans, and thus imperfect. After all, even drones crash sometimes...
So the question becomes, what is the best balance to be had?
It is a fine line between stopping the professional applying an override to fix a critical situation and leaving them able to tear the wings off by accident.
How DARE you come here and post a reasonable, well thought out response, don't you know this is the Internet!:)
Kidding aside, you're right... Do keep in mind that those "safety systems" were also designed by the same humans that want override switches. No system is perfect.
No, probably not... most airplanes no longer "require" pilots in the sense that computers can do the job better, cheaper, and more reliability for the most part...
The question becomes, how many passengers TODAY would get onto an airplane with no human pilots? I would, because I know better. But most people don't know any better.
For a self-driving car I'm guessing the right emergency response is 90% braking, 9% turning, 0.9% accelerating to get out of harm's way and maybe 0.1% getting creative like unbuckling and bailing because the car's going over a cliff.
Self-driving cars are likely to be far safer and more reliable than human-driven cars. But tell that to the mother of the dead child killed in a self-driving car? She doesn't care that 20,000 fewer people are dead in these new cars, she only cares that HER child is dead.
Take helicopters... Here is an odd fact for you... More people are injured and killed practice autorotations than we have engine failures in helicopters.
An autorotation is what you do when the engine quits, it lets the helicopter glide to a safe landing (sort of glide, mostly drop, but it does work).
Frank Robinson, the owner of Robinson Helicopters (who makes the R-22 which is the most common training helicopter today) has said that he would prefer that practicing for this was no longer done for most pilot training.
And he is right, fewer people would die if we simply accepted that anyone in a helicopter that lost the engine would just die with 100% certainty than by requiring helicopter pilots to keep practicing this over and over.
Fully 1/4 of helicopter pilot training is practicing for losing an engine, something that doesn't actually happen to most pilots over their entire careers. Lots of pilots are hurt during training while practicing it however.
But humans have a problem with picking any path that has a 100% certainty of death, regardless of how many people actually die on the path that is not certain.
I personally don't, but if I had to guess, I'd say that people like being around people who look like them.
Think of it as similar to a company started by young people largely hiring young people. A bunch of 20-something kids starting a tech company probably doesn't hire too many 60 year olds the first year, now do they?
From the obvious big stuff like you can't kill people
Yes, because doing so deprives someone else of their liberty, I think everyone gets that.
My choice to only hire whites or blacks or purples... doesn't deprive anyone of anything...
Then you get down to more touchy subjects like you can't kick out a tenant that doesn't pay without a certain period of notice.
Actually, I agree with those laws... people's homes are special things and everyone involved (including the landlord) goes into that relationship knowing the rules (or should).
Now, you should be able to kick someone out for not paying, but proper notice and a reasonable "cure" time are fair things. Giving someone 10 to 15 days to "cure" the back rent (with a small late fee, no more than 10% of the late rent), strikes me as reasonable.
That attitude is likely to get you into a lot of trouble (environmental laws, employment laws, sexual harassment, etc.).
Environmental laws make sense, you're depriving other people (everyone actually) of their liberty by screwing up the environment. Sexual harassment laws make sense (mostly), you can't treat people like crap after all, or you shouldn't anyway.
I just have a general problem with the concept of all the protected classes. Too much government telling us all what to think and what to do, when there aren't any victims.
After all, if I create XYZ company that only hires whites, a black man can counter that by creating ABC company that only hires blacks.
It is sort of like free speech, you have the right to be protected against restrictions on speech... BY THE GOVERNMENT... In private, on private land, you ABSOLUTELY can be limited in your speech. This is why you can't protest on private land, the land owner can tell you to get lost.
Are there businesses that, without Affirmative Action, would hire only white males? Yes. Should something be done about that? Sure.
Why? If I want to have a business that hires only white males, what is the problem with that?
My business, my choice... Now, I might find that blacks and Asians and a lot of whites even don't want to do business with me because of it, and that is their choice. So it might be in my best interests to hire other people.
Look at Hooters, some idiot sued them because he was a man and wanted to work there, and they only hire girls. He lost, BTW. Hooters also only hires (or tries to) pretty girls. What about all the poor ugly girls?
What if I wanted to start a business and only hire pretty black girls? Or Asian girls? Or short, fat, ugly white girls?
Someone might sue, but screw them, a private business should be able to hire who they want.
I have to say that a lot of the race talk these days does appear to come from blacks...
I'm white... I couldn't care less what color you are, you're a human being, just like me...
Yet between the media and other "leaders" like Jesse Jackson, it is race this and race that. I'm tired of it.
Those police rolled up on the black kids for a reason. Black kids commit more crimes than white kids do, look at the number of them in prison...
That isn't your fault, but the culture of black people needs to change. I don't care for Barack Obama, not because he is black, but because I don't like his politics. I don't like Bill Clinton either. I would vote for Collin Powell in a heartbeat.
Get the gansta crap cleaned up, get the crime and low income problems cleaned up, get your kid into education and technology, and the world is his oyster.
You said you wanted to rebate the costs to the poor. That is simply a transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor.
Now, if there was a tax on energy production that got passed on to everyone without a rebate, fair enough. Those who use more energy would pay more.
Remove the rebates and credits and I'm more onboard. Of course the question becomes, how much is "bad" and how much tax is "bad" and what should we do instead?
Personally I pay about 11 cents per kw/h for my power, and that power comes from coal and natural gas. I would pay more if that power came from nuclear, perhaps in the 17 cents range. Simply taxing the coal power up to 17 cents doesn't actually change anything, the same coal is burned.
Now if that tax came in the form of a carbon tax, that would be fine, so long as ALL forms of power were taxed that way. And that includes the carbon released from the manufacture of solar panels, because that really isn't carbon neutral either.
Then the question becomes, what to do with all that tax money...:)
It is possible that there's an unforseen circumstance where activating the feather system at the wrong time is exactly what the pilot needs to do, and he doesn't want the system telling him not to do that.
This...
As a commercial pilot, I can tell you that automatic everything is nice, when it works...
But you always want to have a manual reversion mode just in case...
And when all else fails, a professional crew who can think can do amazing things:
All commercially available nuclear power plants are designed to boil water and spin turbines. They can't reprocess their spent fuel, and most are past or near the end of their design life. In the absence of a safe waste disposal or reprocessing scheme, they should all be decomissioned and turn into multistory jai-alai courts.
That isn't true, except in the USA...
The restrictions on the types of reactor designs allowed is a big part of that problem...
Unfortunately, the 2008 financial fraud reduced the capital availability of home equity which could have formed the wealth base to accelerate the residential transition to more efficient systems.
Huh? So home owners were supposed to do *what* with their home equity? Buy more efficient air conditioners?
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When the MHz war was in full swing I was getting rid of my PC for a new one every other year with a major upgrade at the halfway point, but now why bother?
Just to follow up on this...
Core i7 920, the first 4 core, 8 thread Nehalem processor, was rated TDP of 130W running at up to 3.33 GHz.
Core i7 4790K, the top end 4 core, 8 thread Haswell chip, is rated TDP of 88W running at up for 4.4 GHz.
That is a 32% jump in performance with a 32% reduction in max power draw.
I don't think you can call that "no difference".
Taking it another way...
Core 2 Duo E6600, (Conroe), when it launched in 2006, ran at 2.4 GHz and had a TDP of 65W with 2 cores. It cost $316
Today, you can get a Haswell based Celeron G1820T running at 2.4 GHz and it has a TDP of 35W with 2 cores. It costs $42.
Almost half the power consumption, 87% lower price, is not a "small improvement".
Before I signed up for the Mars trip I would want a dozen cargo ships safely leaving and arriving before I put humans there.
While I understand the feeling, I don't think Christopher Columbus had that sort of assurance when sailing to the new world.
More recently, Robert Falcon Scott and his 4 companions all died in 1912 going to the South Pole.
Life isn't safe, our attempts to make it safe will be the end of us if we're not careful.
You're thinking of the people who might be getting royalties...
Top Gun is likely still owned by Paramount and they are earning the lions share of money from it...
Now, the question becomes... A VHS copy from 1989 might well become public domain, but what about a 2009 Blu-Ray copy?
Real work and real money goes into taking older films and making nice pretty high def versions of them.
Is the old copy public domain but the new copy protected?
If so, I don't know how much is gained, but fair enough. If not, you won't get any updated or refreshed versions of anything if you can just copy them right away.
When the MHz war was in full swing I was getting rid of my PC for a new one every other year with a major upgrade at the halfway point, but now why bother?
The upgrades back when were coming faster than they do today.
Yes, the chips do improve today, but not as much as they once did. The improvements are happening in the areas of features, energy efficiency, and cost, rather than outright performance.
That being said, C2D (Conroe) was a major improvement in performance over Netburst, and Ci7 (Nehalem) was a major improvement over Conroe.
Since Nehalem came out, they have been small improvements in outright performance, but huge improvements in feature sets, energy efficient, and cost.
What jobs do Joe and Jane Average have that won't be well served by a C2Q or Phenom X4 from 7 years ago? None, not a damned thing, in fact many can get by just fine on a C2D or Athlon X2 and never notice any difference because they just aren't stressing the chips.
That is true to a point...
Tossing a SSD and more RAM into such a machine, Windows 8 runs just fine on it, for most people...
Except, it also would suck down more power than it needs to... The same performance that took 65w or 95w of power in 2006 today can be had at 15w of power...
Those AMD chips you love so much suck down power like it was going out of style...
For example, Ghostbusters was released in 1984. It would be in the public domain. And Ghostbusters 2 - released in 1989 - would enter the Public Domain in 3 years.
This would mean that a fan could make a movie based off of Ghostbusters (perhaps with new actors taking over the roles or as a "next generation of Ghostbusters" movie).
You're confusing copyright with trademark.
Just because Ghostbusters enters the public domain doesn't mean you can make a movie called Ghostbusters 3. The Ghostbusters name is trademarked.
Hmm... let's see: the way it would work is that only the original creator could live off the royalties, but his heirs would have to actually do something productive. Sounds good to me!
Who is the original creator of the movie Top Gun?
What you said sounds great when talking about a book that one person wrote at home, it falls apart a bit when you move that to movies and other works that involved a lot of people and a lot of money to make.
The F-117 would be a good example of this... without all the computers working, it would just fall out of the sky...
Most modern fly by wire aircraft take the control inputs as "suggestions" and adapt them into actual control responses.
Yes, but they still have manual reversion mode, where it becomes direct control inputs, "just in case".
At least the Boeing planes do.
According to your own chart there were 6.6million whites arrested and 2.7million blacks arrested.
You're looking at numbers of arrested? Meh, that doesn't mean much... Try the violent crime numbers, those are more interesting...
How about murders? Almost 50/50 split between white and black. Black people are three times more likely to commit a murder than white people.
Or so say the numbers. I would be willing to accept that some of that difference is due to more liberal prosecution of blacks over whites, I don't deny that exists.
But triple? That's a lot.
You bring up poverty... You're right, that isn't talked about much... So blacks have triple the poverty of whites and triple the murder rate...
I believe that. Rich people do commit murder, but not much of it. By far, violent crime is done by poor people.
So, if you want to improve the black community, getting them out of the slums and into the workforce is a good place to start. Perhaps instead of blaming "whitey", the black leadership should tell black youth to stop goofing off and get an education and make something of themselves.
BTW, I'm equal on that front, a bunch of poor white people in mid-west states are just as bad, drive through Alabama or Kentucky and there are plenty of very, very poor white people who need to stop blaming evil government and blue states for all their problems.
Black people are FAR more likely to be stopped, searched and arrested for simple possession though.
Perhaps, but they are also FAR more likely to commit violent crime such as murder.
Whites outnumber blacks by 4 to 1 in this county, yet both groups commit about equal numbers of murders.
I suspect that if you compared white crime with black crime, money stolen by whites would completely dwarf crime committed by blacks. Bernie Madoff anyone? Why does a 16yr old black kid deserve any more attention than some accountant in the same parking lot that's been embezzling money from his work for the past 3yrs?
Because Bernie Madoff didn't use a gun or a knife to take his loot.
Black kids do far more violent crime per capita than white kids do.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cj...
For murders, it is about 50/50 for whites and blacks. Except that we have FAR more white people than black people.
Stereotypes usually have some basis in reality.
Why did the police need to roll up on anyone?
That is a fair question, and we don't have enough information to answer it.
Perhaps those kids were "known" troublemakers? Perhaps they had runins in the past with the cops? Or perhaps they were guilty of being black (yes, I know that still happens).
So many train crashes over the following few years featured that key, that it ended up being UK practise that any collision between trains that caused a fatailty would automatically result in the signalman being arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
Of course the problem with that policy it is tends to change the behavior of signalmen in ways you might not expect.
If you tell me that any use of the red key will cause me to be charged with manslaughter in the event of an accident, then my incentive is to never use it, regardless of the situation.
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What I will say is that any "fail-safe" system is designed by humans, and thus imperfect. After all, even drones crash sometimes...
So the question becomes, what is the best balance to be had?
It is a fine line between stopping the professional applying an override to fix a critical situation and leaving them able to tear the wings off by accident.
How DARE you come here and post a reasonable, well thought out response, don't you know this is the Internet! :)
Kidding aside, you're right... Do keep in mind that those "safety systems" were also designed by the same humans that want override switches. No system is perfect.
Does this rocket plane really require pilots?
No, probably not... most airplanes no longer "require" pilots in the sense that computers can do the job better, cheaper, and more reliability for the most part...
The question becomes, how many passengers TODAY would get onto an airplane with no human pilots? I would, because I know better. But most people don't know any better.
For a self-driving car I'm guessing the right emergency response is 90% braking, 9% turning, 0.9% accelerating to get out of harm's way and maybe 0.1% getting creative like unbuckling and bailing because the car's going over a cliff.
Self-driving cars are likely to be far safer and more reliable than human-driven cars. But tell that to the mother of the dead child killed in a self-driving car? She doesn't care that 20,000 fewer people are dead in these new cars, she only cares that HER child is dead.
Take helicopters... Here is an odd fact for you... More people are injured and killed practice autorotations than we have engine failures in helicopters.
An autorotation is what you do when the engine quits, it lets the helicopter glide to a safe landing (sort of glide, mostly drop, but it does work).
Frank Robinson, the owner of Robinson Helicopters (who makes the R-22 which is the most common training helicopter today) has said that he would prefer that practicing for this was no longer done for most pilot training.
And he is right, fewer people would die if we simply accepted that anyone in a helicopter that lost the engine would just die with 100% certainty than by requiring helicopter pilots to keep practicing this over and over.
Fully 1/4 of helicopter pilot training is practicing for losing an engine, something that doesn't actually happen to most pilots over their entire careers. Lots of pilots are hurt during training while practicing it however.
But humans have a problem with picking any path that has a 100% certainty of death, regardless of how many people actually die on the path that is not certain.
If you want to only hire whites, why?
I personally don't, but if I had to guess, I'd say that people like being around people who look like them.
Think of it as similar to a company started by young people largely hiring young people. A bunch of 20-something kids starting a tech company probably doesn't hire too many 60 year olds the first year, now do they?
From the obvious big stuff like you can't kill people
Yes, because doing so deprives someone else of their liberty, I think everyone gets that.
My choice to only hire whites or blacks or purples... doesn't deprive anyone of anything...
Then you get down to more touchy subjects like you can't kick out a tenant that doesn't pay without a certain period of notice.
Actually, I agree with those laws... people's homes are special things and everyone involved (including the landlord) goes into that relationship knowing the rules (or should).
Now, you should be able to kick someone out for not paying, but proper notice and a reasonable "cure" time are fair things. Giving someone 10 to 15 days to "cure" the back rent (with a small late fee, no more than 10% of the late rent), strikes me as reasonable.
That attitude is likely to get you into a lot of trouble (environmental laws, employment laws, sexual harassment, etc.).
Environmental laws make sense, you're depriving other people (everyone actually) of their liberty by screwing up the environment. Sexual harassment laws make sense (mostly), you can't treat people like crap after all, or you shouldn't anyway.
I just have a general problem with the concept of all the protected classes. Too much government telling us all what to think and what to do, when there aren't any victims.
After all, if I create XYZ company that only hires whites, a black man can counter that by creating ABC company that only hires blacks.
It is sort of like free speech, you have the right to be protected against restrictions on speech... BY THE GOVERNMENT... In private, on private land, you ABSOLUTELY can be limited in your speech. This is why you can't protest on private land, the land owner can tell you to get lost.
Are there businesses that, without Affirmative Action, would hire only white males? Yes. Should something be done about that? Sure.
Why? If I want to have a business that hires only white males, what is the problem with that?
My business, my choice... Now, I might find that blacks and Asians and a lot of whites even don't want to do business with me because of it, and that is their choice. So it might be in my best interests to hire other people.
Look at Hooters, some idiot sued them because he was a man and wanted to work there, and they only hire girls. He lost, BTW. Hooters also only hires (or tries to) pretty girls. What about all the poor ugly girls?
What if I wanted to start a business and only hire pretty black girls? Or Asian girls? Or short, fat, ugly white girls?
Someone might sue, but screw them, a private business should be able to hire who they want.
I have to say that a lot of the race talk these days does appear to come from blacks...
I'm white... I couldn't care less what color you are, you're a human being, just like me...
Yet between the media and other "leaders" like Jesse Jackson, it is race this and race that. I'm tired of it.
Those police rolled up on the black kids for a reason. Black kids commit more crimes than white kids do, look at the number of them in prison...
That isn't your fault, but the culture of black people needs to change. I don't care for Barack Obama, not because he is black, but because I don't like his politics. I don't like Bill Clinton either. I would vote for Collin Powell in a heartbeat.
Get the gansta crap cleaned up, get the crime and low income problems cleaned up, get your kid into education and technology, and the world is his oyster.
No, that isn't what you said at all.
You said you wanted to rebate the costs to the poor. That is simply a transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor.
Now, if there was a tax on energy production that got passed on to everyone without a rebate, fair enough. Those who use more energy would pay more.
Remove the rebates and credits and I'm more onboard. Of course the question becomes, how much is "bad" and how much tax is "bad" and what should we do instead?
Personally I pay about 11 cents per kw/h for my power, and that power comes from coal and natural gas. I would pay more if that power came from nuclear, perhaps in the 17 cents range. Simply taxing the coal power up to 17 cents doesn't actually change anything, the same coal is burned.
Now if that tax came in the form of a carbon tax, that would be fine, so long as ALL forms of power were taxed that way. And that includes the carbon released from the manufacture of solar panels, because that really isn't carbon neutral either.
Then the question becomes, what to do with all that tax money... :)
It is possible that there's an unforseen circumstance where activating the feather system at the wrong time is exactly what the pilot needs to do, and he doesn't want the system telling him not to do that.
This...
As a commercial pilot, I can tell you that automatic everything is nice, when it works...
But you always want to have a manual reversion mode just in case...
And when all else fails, a professional crew who can think can do amazing things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
Participating scientists are not compensated for their efforts.
Depends on what you consider to be "compensation"...
They aren't all doing it for nothing, rest assured...
All commercially available nuclear power plants are designed to boil water and spin turbines. They can't reprocess their spent fuel, and most are past or near the end of their design life. In the absence of a safe waste disposal or reprocessing scheme, they should all be decomissioned and turn into multistory jai-alai courts.
That isn't true, except in the USA...
The restrictions on the types of reactor designs allowed is a big part of that problem...
Unfortunately, the 2008 financial fraud reduced the capital availability of home equity which could have formed the wealth base to accelerate the residential transition to more efficient systems.
Huh? So home owners were supposed to do *what* with their home equity? Buy more efficient air conditioners?
That makes no sense.
I will say that if I didn't already own Win8 licenses, I sure wouldn't pay to upgrade from 7 to 8. :)
Windows 10? Will I pay for that? Yea, I'm sure I will, but to move all the computers to Windows 10 will require a good price.
$30 strikes me as the right upgrade price.
Clean energy is cheaper and helps the poor.
This is complete nonsense...
Clean energy isn't cheap, if it was, we'd all be moving to it right now...
I'd put solar panels up in 2 seconds if they were cheaper than the coal power from the grid... They aren't...