Further, the dawn of Vista drove a great number of those developers that require admin rights to do anything to fix their software, finally, though MS ended up taking most of the flack for it.
This is a good point that often gets forgotten. MS consistently warned developers not to use "Program Files" as a user date store, and developers consistently ignored MS's recommendations. Surprise, surprise, after years of warning MS finally fixes some of their security holes and poorly programmed software starts creating a lot of warning dialogs.
The answers tell you whether the person sees themselves as a bundle of genes or as a bundle of memes.
You're making an assumption about their reasons for wanting to procreate. Given that the child would be successful, its possible that they could do far more than a single book could. For example, they could write many successful books, or be another Hawking, Einstein or Tesla.
Paris Hilton is also very successful. She gets a lot of work as a model and actress, was one of the most popular adult film stars for a brief period, etc. I'd rather shoot myself than bring another Paris Hilton into this world.
Likewise, Mein Kampf is a tremendously successful book, but I would rather be a holocaust victim than the author of that book.
And last but not least, where are you going to put all this power for use at night? Yeah maybe wind helps but many of the same problems crop up.
Consider that the highest demand for power is during the day to run air conditioning, and solar for supplemental power start to make sense. Just not dollars, as it is still amazingly expensive.
"Amazingly expensive" depends on where you live... assuming you're not trying to go off-grid, living in a desert area like Houston shouldn't be expensive. It should yield a decent ROI. In the desert in southern California, my father's system was able to pay for itself in about five years. It cost around $30,000, but the electric bill was also approximately $600/month.
Funny enough, this story also underscores your point strongly. They use almost no electricity on cloudy/rainy days and during the night. By far the largest electric usage is from air conditioning, and during peak hours they're actually feeding more energy back into the grid than they use. This means their monthly electric bill is $0.50 (meter fee), and I think the utilities get a great deal on this because it's helping them during peak hours.
I think what's annoying is just the stupid grandstanding. They are fine with the EXACT same usage in the US, as the gov't now can arbitrarily declare anybody an enemy combatant, arrest them, hold them indefinitely without charge, and even then transport them out of the country.
Funny use of words there. To begin with, the US is NOT doing the "EXACT same usage". The EXACT same would have required us to track all the people bitching about Bush winning ('00 and '04), arrest anyone they could catch, especially those organizing protests, declare the opposition "enemies of Christianity" and threaten to kill them all. Oh, and block nearly all internal and external communications, monitoring the remaining holes.
That's why you added "can" after saying it was the same usage. You know damned well they're not using it in the same way, but you want to grandstand and make it sounds worse than it is to give your side more attention. *yawn*.
Anyways, I think you're fundamentally off here. Yes, we have some problems to fix in the US. No, what we're doing isn't the "EXACT same" by even the most stretched imagination.
Bah, if I watned to off myself, I'd do it in a way that would be talked about for a while.
I'd build a guillotine.
No mistakes, and it's instant... and you're just about guaranteed to get in the news.
Guillotine? That's so 18th century. You should try the cheese wire suicide instead. tl;dr: Cheese wire around neck, Super glue hands to head, jump, hands left holding head. That's what all the cool kids do these days.
For your headaches.. have you tried drinking more water? Do you regularly drink 8 large glasses every 24 hours? If not, your headaches or migraines may very well becaused by dehydration. This may seem obvious, but the reality is that many computer/engineering types walk around dehydrated all the time. Hence their nasty breath.
Good Luck.
Coming from mr. stinky britches himself. Nice.
My headaches are almost always caused by caffeine withdrawal:)
not necessarily. Perhaps older people who are late in life that want to help benefit humanity. Not that they would be lining up to volunteer, but certainly someone would. I would think its safe to assume if the did in fact contract HIV, they would probably get the best health care available to keep it in check for the rest of their lives.
Insightful? You're off your rocker. Any doctor stupid enough to do this is at risk of both losing his license and going to jail.
This is akin to amputating a patient so you can test a new prosthetic. Not happening, and certainly not happening under FDA's watch.
According to a report by CNN, the Kenyans still hunt and burn supposed witches. Curiously, Barack Hussein Obama has often parised the culture of Kenya. His father is a Kenyan.
According to your use of Barrack's middle name, you are trolling as a Republican. It is interesting to note that many prominent Republicans believe in witches as well, isn't it?
Or because (for you US residents) it was created in a "Socialist government run health care system", and anyone who would take such a vaccine would be at risk of "Socialist ideals regarding the merits of government run health care".
Oh the horror!
Simple solution. Canada can lease the rights to manufacture the vaccine to a single US company, and that company can charge $5,000/dose. We Americans will feel good because somebody will still be making an obscene profit off somebody else's work.
You've forgotten about corporate media's roll in elimination of the good candidates.
That's not fair. The corporate media gives the American media consumer what they want. There ARE some good, honest journalists out there... but nobody watches them because they're not entertaining.
If Americans started demanding good news they would get it, because American corporations are all about profits. You could argue the media intentionally got us to this point, but really, the public grew apathetic long ago...
Disclaimer: Yes, I know that a hardworking American who gets home from a 12-hour workday wants to come home and watch some cute girl singing on TV instead of looking into serious issues, but that's a whole 'nother discussion.
"the size of Britain as a whole doesn't have anything to do with people's ability to commute"
Well said, Autralia is almost as big as the US in area and has less people than the city of New York. During the 70's oil crisis Australia did the same as the UK and whacked an excise on petrol (38%). The papers were full of economic alarmists claiming everyone would be in the poorhouse, never happened. Same deal when Australia implemented a UHC system in the seventies, ruination they cried but it never happened. What did happen is Australians bought more economical cars and now have cheaper, more effective heath care than the US.
Sir, your facts are impinging on my ideology and misconceptions. I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
All this crap is cooked up by elitist east and west coast dwellers where there is plenty of public transport like subways and buses.
You have obviously not lived in Los Angeles.
I'll tell you, I've lived in the midwest, Texas, several parts of CA, Japan, and elsewhere, and mass transit in the US sucks pretty hard, even in the major cities, compared to cities like Berlin.
But it sounds like your real root problem is having to commute 50+ miles each way. That's ridiculous, and that has to be fixed. Like it or not, gas will not remain cheap, and oil prices will continue to climb. This isn't sustainable, and your job clearly does not justify this kind of commute (based on you not being able to afford a decent place in the city). I'm sorry, but something will have to give in this scenario because it can't be sustained forever.
What will you do when gas hits $5/gallon? $10/gallon?
While I thank you for your insightful and interesting post, I must point out that there's a better way to stop consumers from clinging to ultracheap batteries: stop trying to rip us off by overcharging for the batteries to begin with. >$100 for an iPod battery? $200 for my laptop battery?
This reminds me very much of the ink cartridge war against the consumers. If your business model includes "profiting from highly marked up consumables", you have to expect the consumer to actively seek out alternatives.
When you eat bacon does that mean the pig won? I doubt it.
Evolutionarily speaking, yes, if we supported the pig long enough for him to be able to reproduce and ensure that his offspring would be able to do the same, you could say he won.
(snip) to give the GOP some media embarrassment, but in all of these cases we're seeing particularly unintelligent and uninformed people passing judgment (snip)
You could've just stopped right there. For years the GOP has been primarily rallied around particularly uninformed and unintelligent people passing judgement. Why should their treatment of science be any different?
He wins big if electricity costs skyrockets and solar/alternate energy tech stagnates. Those are unlikely to both occur. He loses if power gets cheap or solar/alternate energy tech has some rapid advances.
He has essentially exchanged his exposure to energy price fluctuations for host of new risks.
Written like a man who knows his investing. I would, however, disagree with your use of the word "loses". Ignoring external costs, can we agree that the only way he loses is if the system either fails to perform to spec or energy prices actually fall significantly in real dollars?
My point is that he doesn't lose if newer technologies come out. Surely, waiting a few years and buying a cheaper system that does the same thing will yield a better ROI, but that will not reduce his ROI. Of course, as photovoltaic prices come down, the government will remove subsidies and allow the market to settle things on its own, so there are some risks in waiting as well.
Overall, I don't really see a likely scenario for him actually LOSING in this investment. Certainly he could yield better returns elsewhere (especially energy efficiency and reducing consumption), but this isn't particularly risky, IMO.
Quality solar PV (such as mine from BP Australia) are warranted for 20 years.
Have any of these companies even been in business 20 years yet?
You bring up a good point, but it doesn't really have an effect here. What's more important is a) whether or not these panels will need replacing under the warranty and b) how many of these companies will be able to honor the warranty in 20 years.
If they will not need to be replaced, the manufacturer's status will not affect the ROI. Since the materials involved are fairly well known and understood, it's unlikely we'll see significantly increased degradation in performance. The 75-80% capacity after 20 years isn't a wild guess. If, however, they need to be replaced, then we need to examine whether or not the company will be able to honor the warranty.
Assuming any of the projections for solar panel demand are accurate, it is very likely that these companies will be selling max output for at least the next five years. Assuming we don't develop cold fusion by then, and these companies are going to continue to grow, they could easily honor the warranty without suffering a death blow.
I'd say, overall, that the risks are very low on this investment.
It's an education problem. Educate people not to reply.
That is a pie-in-the-sky approach. You cannot possibly "educate" every person with an email address in the world to not reply to spam.
If you can remove the economic incentive of spam, then - and only then - will spam go away. Until then spammers will always make sales for the spamvertised domains, and hence the spammers will always get paid for their work. Which means we will all continue to see more spam.
Now to quote your sig...
Do you really have enough information to support your claim?
Do you?
I've seen some pretty solid evidence that a lot of spamvertised domains don't actually profit from it, but there's no shortage of new customers so the spammers keep making profits without having to worry about retaining customers.
You mean their official position has been that it is a collective right. Since that position has now officially stuck down by SCOTUS, and individual right is now the Law of the Land, they can't very well continue holding that position, can they?
Please do not use "over and out", it's the most ridiculous attempt at radio speak and it makes you look stupid.
As for 'Over and out,' you would be shot out of the water if you used the phrase on marine radio. 'Over' means 'I have finished speaking and am awaiting a reply.' 'Out' means 'I have finished the communication.' 'Over' and 'Out' should NEVER be used together in serious radio communication.
This story seems to have attracted lots of people on/. that work in the intelligence community, whereas this current article about domestic surveillance attracts none. I find that interesting.
Perhaps they didn't feel this story was even worth commenting on? Or maybe they knew it would take about 5 seconds for this story to devolve into a bunch of slashdotters pretending they know everything the intelligence community does?
And since you're using the old "I find that interesting" Fox News line, I find it interesting that you're posting as an AC.
If I understand correctly, the theory is not that liquid water is directly removed by radiation, but that solar winds remove, among other things, water vapor from the atmosphere.
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Further, the dawn of Vista drove a great number of those developers that require admin rights to do anything to fix their software, finally, though MS ended up taking most of the flack for it.
This is a good point that often gets forgotten. MS consistently warned developers not to use "Program Files" as a user date store, and developers consistently ignored MS's recommendations. Surprise, surprise, after years of warning MS finally fixes some of their security holes and poorly programmed software starts creating a lot of warning dialogs.
The answers tell you whether the person sees themselves as a bundle of genes or as a bundle of memes.
You're making an assumption about their reasons for wanting to procreate. Given that the child would be successful, its possible that they could do far more than a single book could. For example, they could write many successful books, or be another Hawking, Einstein or Tesla.
Paris Hilton is also very successful. She gets a lot of work as a model and actress, was one of the most popular adult film stars for a brief period, etc. I'd rather shoot myself than bring another Paris Hilton into this world.
Likewise, Mein Kampf is a tremendously successful book, but I would rather be a holocaust victim than the author of that book.
And last but not least, where are you going to put all this power for use at night? Yeah maybe wind helps but many of the same problems crop up.
Consider that the highest demand for power is during the day to run air conditioning, and solar for supplemental power start to make sense. Just not dollars, as it is still amazingly expensive.
"Amazingly expensive" depends on where you live... assuming you're not trying to go off-grid, living in a desert area like Houston shouldn't be expensive. It should yield a decent ROI. In the desert in southern California, my father's system was able to pay for itself in about five years. It cost around $30,000, but the electric bill was also approximately $600/month.
Funny enough, this story also underscores your point strongly. They use almost no electricity on cloudy/rainy days and during the night. By far the largest electric usage is from air conditioning, and during peak hours they're actually feeding more energy back into the grid than they use. This means their monthly electric bill is $0.50 (meter fee), and I think the utilities get a great deal on this because it's helping them during peak hours.
I think what's annoying is just the stupid grandstanding. They are fine with the EXACT same usage in the US, as the gov't now can arbitrarily declare anybody an enemy combatant, arrest them, hold them indefinitely without charge, and even then transport them out of the country.
Funny use of words there. To begin with, the US is NOT doing the "EXACT same usage". The EXACT same would have required us to track all the people bitching about Bush winning ('00 and '04), arrest anyone they could catch, especially those organizing protests, declare the opposition "enemies of Christianity" and threaten to kill them all. Oh, and block nearly all internal and external communications, monitoring the remaining holes.
That's why you added "can" after saying it was the same usage. You know damned well they're not using it in the same way, but you want to grandstand and make it sounds worse than it is to give your side more attention. *yawn*.
Anyways, I think you're fundamentally off here. Yes, we have some problems to fix in the US. No, what we're doing isn't the "EXACT same" by even the most stretched imagination.
Bah, if I watned to off myself, I'd do it in a way that would be talked about for a while.
I'd build a guillotine.
No mistakes, and it's instant... and you're just about guaranteed to get in the news.
Guillotine? That's so 18th century. You should try the cheese wire suicide instead. tl;dr: Cheese wire around neck, Super glue hands to head, jump, hands left holding head. That's what all the cool kids do these days.
For your headaches.. have you tried drinking more water? Do you regularly drink 8 large glasses every 24 hours? If not, your headaches or migraines may very well becaused by dehydration. This may seem obvious, but the reality is that many computer/engineering types walk around dehydrated all the time. Hence their nasty breath.
Good Luck.
Coming from mr. stinky britches himself. Nice.
My headaches are almost always caused by caffeine withdrawal :)
not necessarily. Perhaps older people who are late in life that want to help benefit humanity. Not that they would be lining up to volunteer, but certainly someone would. I would think its safe to assume if the did in fact contract HIV, they would probably get the best health care available to keep it in check for the rest of their lives.
Insightful? You're off your rocker. Any doctor stupid enough to do this is at risk of both losing his license and going to jail.
This is akin to amputating a patient so you can test a new prosthetic. Not happening, and certainly not happening under FDA's watch.
According to a report by CNN, the Kenyans still hunt and burn supposed witches. Curiously, Barack Hussein Obama has often parised the culture of Kenya. His father is a Kenyan.
According to your use of Barrack's middle name, you are trolling as a Republican. It is interesting to note that many prominent Republicans believe in witches as well, isn't it?
Or because (for you US residents) it was created in a "Socialist government run health care system", and anyone who would take such a vaccine would be at risk of "Socialist ideals regarding the merits of government run health care".
Oh the horror!
Simple solution. Canada can lease the rights to manufacture the vaccine to a single US company, and that company can charge $5,000/dose. We Americans will feel good because somebody will still be making an obscene profit off somebody else's work.
That's not really fair.
You've forgotten about corporate media's roll in elimination of the good candidates.
That's not fair. The corporate media gives the American media consumer what they want. There ARE some good, honest journalists out there... but nobody watches them because they're not entertaining.
If Americans started demanding good news they would get it, because American corporations are all about profits. You could argue the media intentionally got us to this point, but really, the public grew apathetic long ago. ..
Disclaimer: Yes, I know that a hardworking American who gets home from a 12-hour workday wants to come home and watch some cute girl singing on TV instead of looking into serious issues, but that's a whole 'nother discussion.
"the size of Britain as a whole doesn't have anything to do with people's ability to commute"
Well said, Autralia is almost as big as the US in area and has less people than the city of New York. During the 70's oil crisis Australia did the same as the UK and whacked an excise on petrol (38%). The papers were full of economic alarmists claiming everyone would be in the poorhouse, never happened. Same deal when Australia implemented a UHC system in the seventies, ruination they cried but it never happened. What did happen is Australians bought more economical cars and now have cheaper, more effective heath care than the US.
Sir, your facts are impinging on my ideology and misconceptions. I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
All this crap is cooked up by elitist east and west coast dwellers where there is plenty of public transport like subways and buses.
You have obviously not lived in Los Angeles.
I'll tell you, I've lived in the midwest, Texas, several parts of CA, Japan, and elsewhere, and mass transit in the US sucks pretty hard, even in the major cities, compared to cities like Berlin.
But it sounds like your real root problem is having to commute 50+ miles each way. That's ridiculous, and that has to be fixed. Like it or not, gas will not remain cheap, and oil prices will continue to climb. This isn't sustainable, and your job clearly does not justify this kind of commute (based on you not being able to afford a decent place in the city). I'm sorry, but something will have to give in this scenario because it can't be sustained forever.
What will you do when gas hits $5/gallon? $10/gallon?
While I thank you for your insightful and interesting post, I must point out that there's a better way to stop consumers from clinging to ultracheap batteries: stop trying to rip us off by overcharging for the batteries to begin with. >$100 for an iPod battery? $200 for my laptop battery?
This reminds me very much of the ink cartridge war against the consumers. If your business model includes "profiting from highly marked up consumables", you have to expect the consumer to actively seek out alternatives.
When you eat bacon does that mean the pig won? I doubt it.
Evolutionarily speaking, yes, if we supported the pig long enough for him to be able to reproduce and ensure that his offspring would be able to do the same, you could say he won.
I suppose that's not what you meant, though ;)
(snip) to give the GOP some media embarrassment, but in all of these cases we're seeing particularly unintelligent and uninformed people passing judgment (snip)
You could've just stopped right there. For years the GOP has been primarily rallied around particularly uninformed and unintelligent people passing judgement. Why should their treatment of science be any different?
He wins big if electricity costs skyrockets and solar/alternate energy tech stagnates. Those are unlikely to both occur. He loses if power gets cheap or solar/alternate energy tech has some rapid advances.
He has essentially exchanged his exposure to energy price fluctuations for host of new risks.
Written like a man who knows his investing. I would, however, disagree with your use of the word "loses". Ignoring external costs, can we agree that the only way he loses is if the system either fails to perform to spec or energy prices actually fall significantly in real dollars?
My point is that he doesn't lose if newer technologies come out. Surely, waiting a few years and buying a cheaper system that does the same thing will yield a better ROI, but that will not reduce his ROI. Of course, as photovoltaic prices come down, the government will remove subsidies and allow the market to settle things on its own, so there are some risks in waiting as well.
Overall, I don't really see a likely scenario for him actually LOSING in this investment. Certainly he could yield better returns elsewhere (especially energy efficiency and reducing consumption), but this isn't particularly risky, IMO.
Have any of these companies even been in business 20 years yet?
You bring up a good point, but it doesn't really have an effect here. What's more important is a) whether or not these panels will need replacing under the warranty and b) how many of these companies will be able to honor the warranty in 20 years.
If they will not need to be replaced, the manufacturer's status will not affect the ROI. Since the materials involved are fairly well known and understood, it's unlikely we'll see significantly increased degradation in performance. The 75-80% capacity after 20 years isn't a wild guess. If, however, they need to be replaced, then we need to examine whether or not the company will be able to honor the warranty.
Assuming any of the projections for solar panel demand are accurate, it is very likely that these companies will be selling max output for at least the next five years. Assuming we don't develop cold fusion by then, and these companies are going to continue to grow, they could easily honor the warranty without suffering a death blow.
I'd say, overall, that the risks are very low on this investment.
It's an education problem.
Educate people not to reply.
That is a pie-in-the-sky approach. You cannot possibly "educate" every person with an email address in the world to not reply to spam.
If you can remove the economic incentive of spam, then - and only then - will spam go away. Until then spammers will always make sales for the spamvertised domains, and hence the spammers will always get paid for their work. Which means we will all continue to see more spam.
Now to quote your sig...
Do you really have enough information to support your claim?
Do you?
I've seen some pretty solid evidence that a lot of spamvertised domains don't actually profit from it, but there's no shortage of new customers so the spammers keep making profits without having to worry about retaining customers.
A perfect example of using a geek-oriented online network to establish contact with a woman. Well done ;-)
He failed to ask for your ICQ number, and I'm assuming he also failed to add you as a friend.
I had to pick: mod you up or reply :(
Surely you have hobbies or passions that don't involve your computer.
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>_>
Fuck.
Don't apologize to them; they're already Texans.
You mean their official position has been that it is a collective right. Since that position has now officially stuck down by SCOTUS, and individual right is now the Law of the Land, they can't very well continue holding that position, can they?
See: Religion.
Please do not use "over and out", it's the most ridiculous attempt at radio speak and it makes you look stupid.
As for 'Over and out,' you would be shot out of the water if you used the phrase on marine radio. 'Over' means 'I have finished speaking and am awaiting a reply.' 'Out' means 'I have finished the communication.' 'Over' and 'Out' should NEVER be used together in serious radio communication.
This story seems to have attracted lots of people on /. that work in the intelligence community, whereas this current article about domestic surveillance attracts none. I find that interesting.
Perhaps they didn't feel this story was even worth commenting on? Or maybe they knew it would take about 5 seconds for this story to devolve into a bunch of slashdotters pretending they know everything the intelligence community does?
And since you're using the old "I find that interesting" Fox News line, I find it interesting that you're posting as an AC.
If I understand correctly, the theory is not that liquid water is directly removed by radiation, but that solar winds remove, among other things, water vapor from the atmosphere.