>> The East Coast doesn't have a long coastal mountain range, so installing wind farms in passes is out.
A thoughtful post, but uninformed on this point.
The Allegany Front in WV/MD/PA has been called the "Saudi Arabia of wind." (Turns out this is an overused marketing phrase.) However basically winds comes blasting off the Great Plains and nails the AF causing much snow and windy conditions. I ski there (Canaan Valley, WV) and it is really something - it is hard to believe such snowy and crazed wind conditions exist so "far" south.
There are several big wind farms there - the one outside of Davis, WV is a monster. The ones planned (Backbone Mountain WV/MD 65MW, Mount Storm WV 105MW, Dans Mountain MD ??MW) will be giant. There are others - Flat Rock NY 75MW. Hoosic Mountain somewhere in PA - I don't know how big, and The windform in Somerset is being enlarged.
I don't make the rules - I just follow them - and I am not getting paid to debug a POS operating system (actually a NIC driver) that hangs when shutting down.
Don't get pissy with me because Linux sucks the bone in more ways than you can count.
Yes I have access to the source code... but not suprisingly (well perhaps it might be to you to you since you obviously do not work for a professional organization) I don't have the privledge to install an OS - or anything else for that matter - on my workstation.
Especially a kernel that I hand roll.
I get what comes on the CD (or in patches) and I don't get to install or configure it.
Until MS comes up with The Next Great Idea the the open source community can't/won't plagarise that is.
Don't get me wrong - I am somewhat of a Linux fanboy - but I find it ironic that everyone bashes MS while at the same time blatantly rips off their concepts.... GNOME, KDevelop, Hardware Abstraction Layer.
Oh I know: now start with the purile Xerox and Apple stories and oblique references to blowfish.
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I (as one of the 12 million) will finally buy into sat. radio... this being the straw that tipped the balance.
I have been hemming and hawing for a while now... I finally rode in a car with it (XM). I loved it - it was absolutely great!
Couple Stern with the NFL, and it is looking good for Sirius.
>> Like an RPM packager or something
They are similar in concept and use.
My God man! (Pardon the assumption) Why would you inject logic into an otherwise perfectly fine flamefest???
Yes, making the Islamic world resemble a glass paved parking lot will certainly dwarf Sept 11 in size and scope.
>> The East Coast doesn't have a long coastal mountain range, so installing wind farms in passes is out.
A thoughtful post, but uninformed on this point.
The Allegany Front in WV/MD/PA has been called the "Saudi Arabia of wind." (Turns out this is an overused marketing phrase.) However basically winds comes blasting off the Great Plains and nails the AF causing much snow and windy conditions. I ski there (Canaan Valley, WV) and it is really something - it is hard to believe such snowy and crazed wind conditions exist so "far" south.
There are several big wind farms there - the one outside of Davis, WV is a monster. The ones planned (Backbone Mountain WV/MD 65MW, Mount Storm WV 105MW, Dans Mountain MD ??MW) will be giant. There are others - Flat Rock NY 75MW. Hoosic Mountain somewhere in PA - I don't know how big, and The windform in Somerset is being enlarged.
So don't write off those east coast wind farms!
Which is an improvement - albeit a questionable one in this case....
I don't make the rules - I just follow them - and I am not getting paid to debug a POS operating system (actually a NIC driver) that hangs when shutting down.
Don't get pissy with me because Linux sucks the bone in more ways than you can count.
was all I was trying to get at.
That is halarious (and quite insightful).
Yes I have access to the source code... but not suprisingly (well perhaps it might be to you to you since you obviously do not work for a professional organization) I don't have the privledge to install an OS - or anything else for that matter - on my workstation.
Especially a kernel that I hand roll.
I get what comes on the CD (or in patches) and I don't get to install or configure it.
FYI: that would be Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS.
BS!
.NET (7.1 for you purists) on Windows and gcc 3.3.2 on Solaris and Linux.
My experience:
I develop cross platform applications in C++. My code targets Visual C++
I beat the living hell out of my boxes. While most of my code lives in user land (no kernel hacking for me) I still put these machines to the test.
My XP test box has an uptime of months - last time I "turned it off" was when the company replaced the air conditioning and all the power was cut off.
My development box? Yeah I reboot it everyday - but only because I dual boot into Linux (which, BTW, locks up every time when I shut down.)
Until MS comes up with The Next Great Idea the the open source community can't/won't plagarise that is.
Don't get me wrong - I am somewhat of a Linux fanboy - but I find it ironic that everyone bashes MS while at the same time blatantly rips off their concepts.... GNOME, KDevelop, Hardware Abstraction Layer.
Oh I know: now start with the purile Xerox and Apple stories and oblique references to blowfish.
Well, they were rounding up. ;-)
>> Tech market is very bad, especially for guys like me who have pretty good resumes...
Complete and utter horseshit.
I take it you have never read the Andromeda Strain.
Sounds like "don't vote unless your candidate will win."
Pointless. Defeatist. Self defeating, and purile!
(amongst other places, none in the USA)
So how it is good for the US (other than for a few Nike shareholders?)
Oh yeah - trickle down economics... I forgot.
It also sucked more juice than the average house does today.
Bill and Steve are kicking back their heels and smiling while thinking, "Take your best shot."
Seems like a better idea to me.
Oh wait, Katie Couric already has the market cornered....
As far as I know, The USA is the only country with the word "America" in it.
Hence the term "American."
Are you really that daft?
Also note that Mexico is formally called the "United Mexican States" by the Mexican government (actually: Estados Unidos Mexicanos).
That is good - but I just know that the only rat that would be caught would be me!
...and put the flashlight under the seat.
...if you are only worried about losing 5 or 6 vanity pounds, this pill is not for you....
..while it doesn't come in handing here at work I did get get laid a few time.