And you can bet they cherry pick their data so that they have ten years worth of people's email and Slashdot posts, but suddenly when a lawsuit comes along, suddenly that data vanishes. But then it becomes vital to an investigation! "Oh look, we found it again!"
Grow some spine and some thicker skin America, you're turning into the wimps of the "free" world...
Amen. "Free Speech" and "Racism" (in speech!) seem to me to be a contradiction in terms. Americans seem to be losing the sense of value of free speech, trying to appease and prevent "hurt feelings".
I am in no way supporting someone being discriminated against (Rosa Parks style). We have come a VERY long way down that road, to the point where I believe that the pendulum has swung past the apex and is now getting to the point of opression of the "majority" (in many, many senses of the word: not just skin color). We are becoming a society that applauds mediocrity and diversity to the detriment of those who excel.
I think, though, that this is a natural path, and that there will be a correction in the future. How far into the future? I have absolutely no idea.
There are more acts that are vastly more heinous than "earning money... by benefiting from racism" (as silly as that phrase sounds). Someone else has mentioned kiddie porn and sex slave trade, to name a couple, so I am not going any further here. This is not heinous. And the "powers that be" (ie: NAACP et al) had no problems with his attitude until this was illegally brought in to the public spotlight so radically and in such an out-of-context manner by the shock-and-awe seeking group we still call "journalists".
Ah! But that would defeat the purpose of the war on drugs!
See, the "War On Drugs" is a funding initiative for our police forces in the US. It really has nothing to do with STOPPING the (import, distribution, sale, use) of illegal drugs, because that would defeat the funding initiative purpose.
This article actually has NOTHING to do with the WOD, because there were no illegal or street drugs involved. This is a story about ARMED ROBBERY of a pharmacy, which typically does not peddle in illegal or street drugs, and the successful tracking and confrontation of the armed robber.
I hope you realize that I am being somewhat sarcastic here... I actually agree with you, that the WOD should be a program designed to "cure" the end-user (victim?) and kill the ilicit drug business from that direction. It has been proven that this method works, but the WOD is just too much of a cash cow for the law enforcement community to give up.
And they will end up just like the "other" studio owners... You don't think they'll raise their prices? I'd love to live in your universe. Greed infects us all. Netflix is a business just like any other business. Money is the only reason businesses exist, and if they can make a dollar more off of you than they did last week they will.
I want to say that I agree with a large quantity of what you have to say. As an urban dweller who wants to move out into the countryside, I even empathize with choosing that destination.
On the other hand, you ask what the city has done for you and I have to point out that the lion's share of your farming equipment is the direct result of factories in those cities.
Actually, the majority of agricultural manufacturing is in much smaller communities. Even John Deere (one of the largest) is headquartered in Moline, Il, and even if you count the entire metro area of Moline it's under 400,000. Moline itself is under 50k. Most agricultural manufacturing is done in the rural areas, because that's where it's needed. There's a Steiger plant in Fargo, ND, for instance.
Can you till, plant and harvest without the benefits of tractors and combines anymore?
Actually, yes. Not enough to keep the world fed as we do now, but we'll do fine locally.
Who is keeping those skills alive so that if the urban centers shut down, the countryside can continue operating as it does without petroleum and replacement parts?
You do realize that farmers are the largest DIY group in the world, right? And most of those companies were started by farmers? Typically things are fixed, not replaced, and if a replacement is needed most are very good at manufacturing parts on their own or making something else work in place of it. These aren't cars or computers. And petroleum? Also from the rural areas. It's shipped all over the place to be refined, but those are normally not in urban areas either (the NIMBY effect)... In fact there is already one being built in the Bakken and another is being discussed pretty seriously. So, we already have the petroleum.
I am not trying to argue, but just remember that the rural areas can get along a lot better without the urban areas, than vice versa. Urban areas have their place: for instance, high-end science and research is done in universities in the urban areas, medical science is much more available in cities, and seriously, there are many more cultural options available. And that's cool. It just seems that most of the time those of us who have chosen to live in the rural areas are looked down upon from "city folk". And that gets pretty annoying.
Leaving aside Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan and on, so what your saying is the all of the real urban pest holes in the United States will finally be cleared out once and for all... and the down side is??
Throughout history, cities have been the engines of commerce, innovation and growth. I'm one of those urban pests (born and raised in a large city), as are fully half of the US population. Are you saying that half the population of the US should be put down as pests?
What I think you're really saying is that you don't like diversity and are somewhat xenophobic. Do you even have a valid passport? Have you ever traveled anywhere? I pity you your small-mindedness.
Also, just for the record, the word "your" is possessive (as in "This is your opinion"). "You're" is a contraction of "you are" (as in "...so what you're saying is..."). It's hard to take your opinion seriously, both because it's hateful and exclusionary, and because you're clearly not as smart as you think you are. That is all.
His was a douchebag comment, but I do understand what probably fueled it. And yours was a retaliation, based on a stereotype that you hold.
I live in a small rural community (though I was born in Chicago), and the typical reaction from those who live in the city is "Why the fuck would you want to live there???!!!!", like we're some kind of socially and mentally retarded group of subhumans that don't know what they are missing.
My answer is always the same: truth. I live a mile from work: it takes less than 5 minutes for the "commute". I work with people that commute 40 miles and they can make it (even in poor weather) in very much less than an hour. When I get to work, I not only leave the car unlocked, but the keys are in the ignition. The house is unlocked. Always. In the summer, my kids can pretty much do as they please all day; if they get into trouble, someone will let me know and will most likely have corrected them already.
There is safety and security in rural areas that city dwellers cannot even comprehend. We may be farther from broadway shows and expensive restaurants, but life here is not about those kinds of things. We do not miss them (and many of us have moved here from that environment). We make our own entertainment and experiences, usually involving the outdoors and nature, and our friends and neighbors, rather than living as one in the midst of strangers.
We feed you. If it wasn't for us, you would starve. What do you give us in return? Seriously, we can do without all of the "modern conveniences" and tech that is produced by "the engines of commerce, innovation and growth", and still live and survive. Can you do without the food that is produced in rural America? Where are you going to raise cattle and poultry for meat, durum for bread, and all the diversity of fruits and vegetables that you can currently buy in the store?
You yourself call us small-minded and xenophobic. And then, as normal, give a grammer lesson to the "hick", fueling the stereotype that you hold.
What's the difference between talking on a cell phone and talking to a passenger?
I used to think this too, until someone pointed something out to me.
When you talk on the phone, your mind automagically starts imagining the other person's surroundings, listening to the environment on the other end, etc. In a face-to-face conversation, these behaviors are not triggered.
This was proven to me when they said, "Can you have a conversation with someone and watch TV too?" My answer, Yes. Then they said, "Ever tried talking to someone on the phone and watch TV too?" And that triggered my understanding: since the face-to-face conversation while watching TV is done in the exact same environment, the interaction is based on that environment and pauses and such occur naturally between the two people. The phone removes that shared environment and forces you to spend more focus and attention to the caller's differing environment (totally natural and subconscious), and there's nothing you can do about that.
I quit talking on the phone in the car after that was pointed out to me, and I refuse to answer or text anymore while driving. The human mind is absolutely horrible at multitasking.
...and try to compare the same vehicle between several dealers in the same area...is there a competitive difference?
Has anybody else noticed how the manufacturers are forcing dealers out of business, to reduce this EXACT situation? We had this happen in our area: there was a GMC/Olds/Cadillac dealer, and a Chevy/Buick/Pontiac dealer. The GMC dealer (since they had the more "exclusive" lines, they were given first choice) was given an ultimatum: either buy out the Chevy dealer, or be bought out by the Chevy dealer. Since the GMC dealer's owner was nearing retirement age and none of his kids wanted to continue the business, he sold out. Immediately after, choices went down, prices went up, and haggling disappeared. If you don't want to pay the price on the window, you go at least 60 miles away to find another dealer. Competition is gone and the consumer protection that the competition bought (which is what they are basing their arguements against manufacturer stores on) is also gone.
So, tell me: how is this situation different than a manufacturer opening their own store, compared to a franchised store? Destroying multiple competing franchises in a market area creates a monopoly, just as the dealers are saying a manufacturer store would be.
Their arguement does not hold water when reality of the marketplace is considered.
Actually, in certain circumstances, this exact thing is happening and they are viable. I have a friend that lives in rural Iowa, and the power company there is incentivizing him to get off the grid using solar and wind generation, with battery storage. It's too expensive for the power company to continue supplying power to him and his neighbors and improve the grid so that the power is reliable, so they are trying to get rid of those customers that are having the trouble.
That's grid parity in play, right there. It's obviously not an urban issue, so no one here is going to care and I'll get flamed for this, but it is indeed grid parity. As time goes on and the grid ages and individual demand increases, this type of instance will happen closer and closer to the urban centers.
...we should be aiming to create energy surpluses.
You realize that this would be detrimental to the bottom line of the power companies. That have boards that exist to protect investors. And investors who demand returns on their investments. Etc.
Not unlike researchers who know who is paying for their research, and do not want to offput those grantors by coming up with data that undermines the grantor's position on the research.
This society that we live in is not designed to find truths or to do the "right thing". It is designed to make people money so that they can live more comfortably. Period. I don't care where you live or what you do, this is truth, whether you live in Manhatten or the Serengetti, humans do what they do to improve their own lives. If you improve other's as well while you are at it, that's even better. If you don't, no love lost. If you think I'm off base here, then I challenge you to work for a year for free: no salary, no compensation, just for the good of the world.
Why do you think switching to linux would be much more simpler? Every one says they should use linux. I have yet to seen a good reason why they should switch. I love MS i really do. I think there IDE software is a 100x times above any thing open source can produce(Eclipse is a fucking joke). There documentation is 100x better than any other language or API i have ever seen. Every time i look at the android api it makes me fucking cry. Its pathetic. Every one hates MS but Linux is no better. There is no documentation there is no real help for new users. People dont want to use linux cause ppl on this site see them as lesser ppl The differance between linux and MS is price. How many of you ppl actually contribute to linux? I doubt many if any of you do a damn thing for linux. Yet your all here to bitch how MS is so fucking evil. They are doing what linux will never do. That is called market share. It will always be Mac or windows. There is no community for new ppl for linux and it will fail.
Fuck it i love Microsoft cause it will do things things that you linux butt buddys will only wish it could do. Its called market share and usability. Nothing linux can do till they work together and make one or two gui and work as one. Till then keep bitching.
There is a reason in the last 20 years linux has done shit on consumer market... beside linus
Cannot believe this wasn't entered as an AC. Kudos for having the balls to do that, even though you clearly are a fanboy that has not actually seriously tried any Linux distros with an open mind.
Opposite of what you seem to believe the difference between M$ and Linux is *not* just price.
We have switched to Mint in our office, and there are only two things we cannot do: (1) GoToMeeting, and (2) run a (very few) proprietary Windows XP-only custom applications that also do not work on WinV,7, or 8.
Everything else has proven to be faster and more reliable on Mint than Win XP, V, 7, or 8. By FAR. Especially Java-based apps. My laptop boots and I am logged in in under a minute, while in Windoze it is 4 or more.
Installation is maybe 1/16th the amount of time, even by someone who has NEVER installed Mint, and has many years of (re)installing Windows. No drivers to look for, all the software needed is either there or so supremely easy to find and install that it is not even worth mentioning, and the install takes way less space than Windows, leaving more userspace available.
Why the lack of help (as you so strongly seem to believe, not that I have experienced except in the M$ world)? Because it's not really needed. Mint, for one, is a very easy distro to use. No help needed. However, I have, in the past, needed help with a Windows issue, and even though I paid for the damn software, I couldn't call the M$ help desk without a CC in hand. Typically, if I need help with Mint, the forums are a click away, and people that frequent them are supremely helpful. I try to return the favor, so it makes it a better world. So, your "help" arguement, from my personal experience, is gone.
Market share is nothing to me. I don't really care what others are using. I want an easy-to-use OS, fast, light, and with enough software to make things that I do work. I have found that in Linux, and as a bonus I don't need to help Bill with his retirement for nothing in return.
There are some legitimate reasons to continue using M$ desktops: proprietarily written software with no FOSS equivalent being one of them. That reason has deflated by leaps and bounds in the last 3-5 years. Other than that, Linux is outperforming M$ in every category.
BTW, sorry about this as it has nothing to do with the conversation, but the grammer nazi in me is screaming "For the love of GOD, 'their', not 'there'!"
AMEN! But, the really great scientists weren't being pressured by their sources of funding to "prove" a certain outcome. And that is where modern science has gone awry.
Agreed. Remember the "science" of eugenics. EVERYONE agreed with it, from the scientific community, to the government, to the church. And it was completely, fundamentally wrong. But there was lots of debate, and they all agreed upon it. And the AGW people freak out if you even bring it up. Just because "everyone" agrees on something does not make it correct. "Science" changes all the time, and will continue to, forever. NOTHING is set in stone and unchangable. Unfortunately, that's not how the AGW people talk. Anytime I hear a "scientist" say something is absolutely, positively, completely correct and unchangable, my BS meter pegs, because that's not what they should be saying or how they should have been taught.
In a way, I kind of like this. I mean, it IS our (the public's) money, and it SHOULD go back to the people...
At least it's not "70% Of U.S. Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals EMPLOYED BY THE GOVERNMENT"...
And this is EXACTLY why the dealers are in an uproar. You notice that it's the dealers, not the manufacturers, that are going nuts? Why hasn't Chevrolet, Chrysler, Ford, et. al. jumped into the fray to support their dealer networks?
Because they want to do exactly the same thing, but don't dare alienate their dealers! They are already excersizing their power by killing off a lot of dealers, in order to discourage price shopping and leveraging between dealerships. The surviving dealers love this, because now they can run their pricing wherever they want and not have to worry about pesky competition and empowered customers.
The problem is not amplifier power, nor is it a "volume knob set to 11" type of issue.
The problem is, as an earlier poster descibed, square waves. This is also known as "distortion". Distortion is the ultimate killer of *any* speaker, and it is NOT caused by too much power, but by a small amplifier (small in relation to the amount of power that a speaker can handle) driving a speaker that is too large for it. This happens in car audio *all the time* in the subwoofer world. "Hey look, I just bought a 1200 watt subwoofer and I'm gonna get cheap and drive it with a 40 watt amp!!!"
The earlier poster was 100% correct. A speaker REQUIRES smooth sine-wave action to properly cool a voice coil. The in and out movement causes air to be moved through the voice coil. Even if the amplifier power far outpaces the speaker's capabilities, typically it's very difficult to cause a speaker failure due to an excursion event (pouring too much power to a speaker, effectively forcing it to move past it's physical limit, which is what too much power does). If you are experiencing excursion damage, you better get some hearing aids, because if you need it that loud you're deaf. Even from a small speaker, that would be extremely loud.
Back to the Dell: I would suspect that Dell actually used a premium speaker that can handle lots of power, and the amplifier is way underpowered. In which case they are still responsible for the failure based on the lack of power in the amplifier, not the speakers.
Just another viewpoint, and a different culprit to look at in your investigations.
One little adjustment to this, if I may. When I was in high school (a long freakin time ago), we had a BRILLIANT math teacher. He was sooo great at transferring knowledge that it was very easy to learn concepts from him.
When he found a better paying position in a competing school (ours was paying our football/wrestling coach more than ANY of the teachers and couldn't afford to match the competition), he was replaced with a kid right out of college who had a 4.0 GPA in his college career. Worst teacher I have ever had. He had no empathy, because he never experienced any difficulty in learning math. Any kind of math. So, he didn't know how to teach to someone who didn't have a natural affinity.
So, smart? Yes... but I prefer a teacher who has struggled to learn, rather than one who "just got it" all the time... They are going to be better teachers. IMHO, YMMV...
Possibly the poster meant "high" as in altitude... In which case, it would work, with no alchemy involved.
There are also situations where the VHF/UHF signal could be bounced back to Earth (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave), also not involving alchemy. Also not involving any level of predictability or stability, but that was not part of the discussion.
Slashdot Mirror
And you can bet they cherry pick their data so that they have ten years worth of people's email and Slashdot posts, but suddenly when a lawsuit comes along, suddenly that data vanishes. But then it becomes vital to an investigation! "Oh look, we found it again!"
Much like law enforcement dashcam video/audio...
No kidding.
Grow some spine and some thicker skin America, you're turning into the wimps of the "free" world...
Amen. "Free Speech" and "Racism" (in speech!) seem to me to be a contradiction in terms. Americans seem to be losing the sense of value of free speech, trying to appease and prevent "hurt feelings".
... by benefiting from racism" (as silly as that phrase sounds). Someone else has mentioned kiddie porn and sex slave trade, to name a couple, so I am not going any further here. This is not heinous. And the "powers that be" (ie: NAACP et al) had no problems with his attitude until this was illegally brought in to the public spotlight so radically and in such an out-of-context manner by the shock-and-awe seeking group we still call "journalists".
I am in no way supporting someone being discriminated against (Rosa Parks style). We have come a VERY long way down that road, to the point where I believe that the pendulum has swung past the apex and is now getting to the point of opression of the "majority" (in many, many senses of the word: not just skin color). We are becoming a society that applauds mediocrity and diversity to the detriment of those who excel.
I think, though, that this is a natural path, and that there will be a correction in the future. How far into the future? I have absolutely no idea.
There are more acts that are vastly more heinous than "earning money
Ah! But that would defeat the purpose of the war on drugs! See, the "War On Drugs" is a funding initiative for our police forces in the US. It really has nothing to do with STOPPING the (import, distribution, sale, use) of illegal drugs, because that would defeat the funding initiative purpose. This article actually has NOTHING to do with the WOD, because there were no illegal or street drugs involved. This is a story about ARMED ROBBERY of a pharmacy, which typically does not peddle in illegal or street drugs, and the successful tracking and confrontation of the armed robber. I hope you realize that I am being somewhat sarcastic here... I actually agree with you, that the WOD should be a program designed to "cure" the end-user (victim?) and kill the ilicit drug business from that direction. It has been proven that this method works, but the WOD is just too much of a cash cow for the law enforcement community to give up.
And they will end up just like the "other" studio owners... You don't think they'll raise their prices? I'd love to live in your universe. Greed infects us all. Netflix is a business just like any other business. Money is the only reason businesses exist, and if they can make a dollar more off of you than they did last week they will.
Thanks for the clarification... Sounds like I may have read the situation incorrectly and reacted harshly. I apologize for that.
I want to say that I agree with a large quantity of what you have to say. As an urban dweller who wants to move out into the countryside, I even empathize with choosing that destination.
On the other hand, you ask what the city has done for you and I have to point out that the lion's share of your farming equipment is the direct result of factories in those cities.
Actually, the majority of agricultural manufacturing is in much smaller communities. Even John Deere (one of the largest) is headquartered in Moline, Il, and even if you count the entire metro area of Moline it's under 400,000. Moline itself is under 50k. Most agricultural manufacturing is done in the rural areas, because that's where it's needed. There's a Steiger plant in Fargo, ND, for instance.
Can you till, plant and harvest without the benefits of tractors and combines anymore?
Actually, yes. Not enough to keep the world fed as we do now, but we'll do fine locally.
Who is keeping those skills alive so that if the urban centers shut down, the countryside can continue operating as it does without petroleum and replacement parts?
You do realize that farmers are the largest DIY group in the world, right? And most of those companies were started by farmers? Typically things are fixed, not replaced, and if a replacement is needed most are very good at manufacturing parts on their own or making something else work in place of it. These aren't cars or computers. And petroleum? Also from the rural areas. It's shipped all over the place to be refined, but those are normally not in urban areas either (the NIMBY effect)... In fact there is already one being built in the Bakken and another is being discussed pretty seriously. So, we already have the petroleum.
I am not trying to argue, but just remember that the rural areas can get along a lot better without the urban areas, than vice versa. Urban areas have their place: for instance, high-end science and research is done in universities in the urban areas, medical science is much more available in cities, and seriously, there are many more cultural options available. And that's cool. It just seems that most of the time those of us who have chosen to live in the rural areas are looked down upon from "city folk". And that gets pretty annoying.
Leaving aside Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan and on, so what your saying is the all of the real urban pest holes in the United States will finally be cleared out once and for all... and the down side is??
Throughout history, cities have been the engines of commerce, innovation and growth. I'm one of those urban pests (born and raised in a large city), as are fully half of the US population. Are you saying that half the population of the US should be put down as pests?
What I think you're really saying is that you don't like diversity and are somewhat xenophobic. Do you even have a valid passport? Have you ever traveled anywhere? I pity you your small-mindedness.
Also, just for the record, the word "your" is possessive (as in "This is your opinion"). "You're" is a contraction of "you are" (as in "...so what you're saying is..."). It's hard to take your opinion seriously, both because it's hateful and exclusionary, and because you're clearly not as smart as you think you are. That is all.
His was a douchebag comment, but I do understand what probably fueled it. And yours was a retaliation, based on a stereotype that you hold.
I live in a small rural community (though I was born in Chicago), and the typical reaction from those who live in the city is "Why the fuck would you want to live there???!!!!", like we're some kind of socially and mentally retarded group of subhumans that don't know what they are missing.
My answer is always the same: truth. I live a mile from work: it takes less than 5 minutes for the "commute". I work with people that commute 40 miles and they can make it (even in poor weather) in very much less than an hour. When I get to work, I not only leave the car unlocked, but the keys are in the ignition. The house is unlocked. Always. In the summer, my kids can pretty much do as they please all day; if they get into trouble, someone will let me know and will most likely have corrected them already.
There is safety and security in rural areas that city dwellers cannot even comprehend. We may be farther from broadway shows and expensive restaurants, but life here is not about those kinds of things. We do not miss them (and many of us have moved here from that environment). We make our own entertainment and experiences, usually involving the outdoors and nature, and our friends and neighbors, rather than living as one in the midst of strangers.
We feed you. If it wasn't for us, you would starve. What do you give us in return? Seriously, we can do without all of the "modern conveniences" and tech that is produced by "the engines of commerce, innovation and growth", and still live and survive. Can you do without the food that is produced in rural America? Where are you going to raise cattle and poultry for meat, durum for bread, and all the diversity of fruits and vegetables that you can currently buy in the store?
You yourself call us small-minded and xenophobic. And then, as normal, give a grammer lesson to the "hick", fueling the stereotype that you hold.
Well done.
Sweet.
I'll tell you what's Wicked! The play, Wicked. It's wicked good.
FTFY.
What's the difference between talking on a cell phone and talking to a passenger?
I used to think this too, until someone pointed something out to me. When you talk on the phone, your mind automagically starts imagining the other person's surroundings, listening to the environment on the other end, etc. In a face-to-face conversation, these behaviors are not triggered. This was proven to me when they said, "Can you have a conversation with someone and watch TV too?" My answer, Yes. Then they said, "Ever tried talking to someone on the phone and watch TV too?" And that triggered my understanding: since the face-to-face conversation while watching TV is done in the exact same environment, the interaction is based on that environment and pauses and such occur naturally between the two people. The phone removes that shared environment and forces you to spend more focus and attention to the caller's differing environment (totally natural and subconscious), and there's nothing you can do about that. I quit talking on the phone in the car after that was pointed out to me, and I refuse to answer or text anymore while driving. The human mind is absolutely horrible at multitasking.
...and try to compare the same vehicle between several dealers in the same area...is there a competitive difference?
Has anybody else noticed how the manufacturers are forcing dealers out of business, to reduce this EXACT situation? We had this happen in our area: there was a GMC/Olds/Cadillac dealer, and a Chevy/Buick/Pontiac dealer. The GMC dealer (since they had the more "exclusive" lines, they were given first choice) was given an ultimatum: either buy out the Chevy dealer, or be bought out by the Chevy dealer. Since the GMC dealer's owner was nearing retirement age and none of his kids wanted to continue the business, he sold out. Immediately after, choices went down, prices went up, and haggling disappeared. If you don't want to pay the price on the window, you go at least 60 miles away to find another dealer. Competition is gone and the consumer protection that the competition bought (which is what they are basing their arguements against manufacturer stores on) is also gone. So, tell me: how is this situation different than a manufacturer opening their own store, compared to a franchised store? Destroying multiple competing franchises in a market area creates a monopoly, just as the dealers are saying a manufacturer store would be. Their arguement does not hold water when reality of the marketplace is considered.
Actually, in certain circumstances, this exact thing is happening and they are viable. I have a friend that lives in rural Iowa, and the power company there is incentivizing him to get off the grid using solar and wind generation, with battery storage. It's too expensive for the power company to continue supplying power to him and his neighbors and improve the grid so that the power is reliable, so they are trying to get rid of those customers that are having the trouble. That's grid parity in play, right there. It's obviously not an urban issue, so no one here is going to care and I'll get flamed for this, but it is indeed grid parity. As time goes on and the grid ages and individual demand increases, this type of instance will happen closer and closer to the urban centers.
...we should be aiming to create energy surpluses.
You realize that this would be detrimental to the bottom line of the power companies. That have boards that exist to protect investors. And investors who demand returns on their investments. Etc.
Not unlike researchers who know who is paying for their research, and do not want to offput those grantors by coming up with data that undermines the grantor's position on the research.
This society that we live in is not designed to find truths or to do the "right thing". It is designed to make people money so that they can live more comfortably. Period. I don't care where you live or what you do, this is truth, whether you live in Manhatten or the Serengetti, humans do what they do to improve their own lives. If you improve other's as well while you are at it, that's even better. If you don't, no love lost. If you think I'm off base here, then I challenge you to work for a year for free: no salary, no compensation, just for the good of the world.
Cynical, but true.
Why do you think switching to linux would be much more simpler? Every one says they should use linux. I have yet to seen a good reason why they should switch. I love MS i really do. I think there IDE software is a 100x times above any thing open source can produce(Eclipse is a fucking joke). There documentation is 100x better than any other language or API i have ever seen. Every time i look at the android api it makes me fucking cry. Its pathetic. Every one hates MS but Linux is no better. There is no documentation there is no real help for new users. People dont want to use linux cause ppl on this site see them as lesser ppl The differance between linux and MS is price. How many of you ppl actually contribute to linux? I doubt many if any of you do a damn thing for linux. Yet your all here to bitch how MS is so fucking evil. They are doing what linux will never do. That is called market share. It will always be Mac or windows. There is no community for new ppl for linux and it will fail. Fuck it i love Microsoft cause it will do things things that you linux butt buddys will only wish it could do. Its called market share and usability. Nothing linux can do till they work together and make one or two gui and work as one. Till then keep bitching. There is a reason in the last 20 years linux has done shit on consumer market... beside linus
Cannot believe this wasn't entered as an AC. Kudos for having the balls to do that, even though you clearly are a fanboy that has not actually seriously tried any Linux distros with an open mind.
Opposite of what you seem to believe the difference between M$ and Linux is *not* just price.
We have switched to Mint in our office, and there are only two things we cannot do:
(1) GoToMeeting, and
(2) run a (very few) proprietary Windows XP-only custom applications that also do not work on WinV,7, or 8.
Everything else has proven to be faster and more reliable on Mint than Win XP, V, 7, or 8. By FAR. Especially Java-based apps. My laptop boots and I am logged in in under a minute, while in Windoze it is 4 or more.
Installation is maybe 1/16th the amount of time, even by someone who has NEVER installed Mint, and has many years of (re)installing Windows. No drivers to look for, all the software needed is either there or so supremely easy to find and install that it is not even worth mentioning, and the install takes way less space than Windows, leaving more userspace available.
Why the lack of help (as you so strongly seem to believe, not that I have experienced except in the M$ world)? Because it's not really needed. Mint, for one, is a very easy distro to use. No help needed. However, I have, in the past, needed help with a Windows issue, and even though I paid for the damn software, I couldn't call the M$ help desk without a CC in hand. Typically, if I need help with Mint, the forums are a click away, and people that frequent them are supremely helpful. I try to return the favor, so it makes it a better world. So, your "help" arguement, from my personal experience, is gone.
Market share is nothing to me. I don't really care what others are using. I want an easy-to-use OS, fast, light, and with enough software to make things that I do work. I have found that in Linux, and as a bonus I don't need to help Bill with his retirement for nothing in return.
There are some legitimate reasons to continue using M$ desktops: proprietarily written software with no FOSS equivalent being one of them. That reason has deflated by leaps and bounds in the last 3-5 years. Other than that, Linux is outperforming M$ in every category.
BTW, sorry about this as it has nothing to do with the conversation, but the grammer nazi in me is screaming "For the love of GOD, 'their', not 'there'!"
AMEN! But, the really great scientists weren't being pressured by their sources of funding to "prove" a certain outcome. And that is where modern science has gone awry.
Agreed. Remember the "science" of eugenics. EVERYONE agreed with it, from the scientific community, to the government, to the church. And it was completely, fundamentally wrong. But there was lots of debate, and they all agreed upon it. And the AGW people freak out if you even bring it up. Just because "everyone" agrees on something does not make it correct. "Science" changes all the time, and will continue to, forever. NOTHING is set in stone and unchangable. Unfortunately, that's not how the AGW people talk. Anytime I hear a "scientist" say something is absolutely, positively, completely correct and unchangable, my BS meter pegs, because that's not what they should be saying or how they should have been taught.
In a way, I kind of like this. I mean, it IS our (the public's) money, and it SHOULD go back to the people... At least it's not "70% Of U.S. Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals EMPLOYED BY THE GOVERNMENT"...
And this is EXACTLY why the dealers are in an uproar. You notice that it's the dealers, not the manufacturers, that are going nuts? Why hasn't Chevrolet, Chrysler, Ford, et. al. jumped into the fray to support their dealer networks? Because they want to do exactly the same thing, but don't dare alienate their dealers! They are already excersizing their power by killing off a lot of dealers, in order to discourage price shopping and leveraging between dealerships. The surviving dealers love this, because now they can run their pricing wherever they want and not have to worry about pesky competition and empowered customers.
Carla Laemmle. She's 104 and still acting. She had a 60+ year hiatus in there tho.
Already been done:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
The problem is not amplifier power, nor is it a "volume knob set to 11" type of issue.
The problem is, as an earlier poster descibed, square waves. This is also known as "distortion". Distortion is the ultimate killer of *any* speaker, and it is NOT caused by too much power, but by a small amplifier (small in relation to the amount of power that a speaker can handle) driving a speaker that is too large for it. This happens in car audio *all the time* in the subwoofer world. "Hey look, I just bought a 1200 watt subwoofer and I'm gonna get cheap and drive it with a 40 watt amp!!!"
The earlier poster was 100% correct. A speaker REQUIRES smooth sine-wave action to properly cool a voice coil. The in and out movement causes air to be moved through the voice coil. Even if the amplifier power far outpaces the speaker's capabilities, typically it's very difficult to cause a speaker failure due to an excursion event (pouring too much power to a speaker, effectively forcing it to move past it's physical limit, which is what too much power does). If you are experiencing excursion damage, you better get some hearing aids, because if you need it that loud you're deaf. Even from a small speaker, that would be extremely loud.
Back to the Dell: I would suspect that Dell actually used a premium speaker that can handle lots of power, and the amplifier is way underpowered. In which case they are still responsible for the failure based on the lack of power in the amplifier, not the speakers.
Just another viewpoint, and a different culprit to look at in your investigations.
Good luck!!!
"I want teachers that are smart, ...".
One little adjustment to this, if I may. When I was in high school (a long freakin time ago), we had a BRILLIANT math teacher. He was sooo great at transferring knowledge that it was very easy to learn concepts from him.
When he found a better paying position in a competing school (ours was paying our football/wrestling coach more than ANY of the teachers and couldn't afford to match the competition), he was replaced with a kid right out of college who had a 4.0 GPA in his college career. Worst teacher I have ever had. He had no empathy, because he never experienced any difficulty in learning math. Any kind of math. So, he didn't know how to teach to someone who didn't have a natural affinity.
So, smart? Yes... but I prefer a teacher who has struggled to learn, rather than one who "just got it" all the time... They are going to be better teachers. IMHO, YMMV...
And his bag in a movie theater affects you how? You haven't answered. Again, you haven't answered. Fsckin troll.
How about this, dipshit: he doesn't have a car... He uses the subway (or bus, or taxi, or bike, or...) and has no other place to put it.
It isn't that hard to figure out a valid reason, making your dimwitted statement invalid.
Supply an answer rather than just spouting the same bullshit.
OK, let's put that concept to work here:
Metered internet is like metered power.
Metered internet is like metered natural gas.
Metered internet is like metered gasoline.
Metered internet is like metered water.
Why is internet access treated differently than any other consumable item? It's NOT free!
Possibly the poster meant "high" as in altitude... In which case, it would work, with no alchemy involved.
There are also situations where the VHF/UHF signal could be bounced back to Earth (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave), also not involving alchemy. Also not involving any level of predictability or stability, but that was not part of the discussion.