No matter what prices do, use of oil as fuel will pretty much stop when it takes the energy equivalent of a barrel of oil to extract a barrel of oil. At that point, there will still be plenty of oil left for making plastics and other industrial uses.
I suspect that price will eliminate use of oil as a fuel long before this point, though.
Solar panels by themselves are fine if you're still on the grid. Since we're not likely to go 100% solar any time soon, you use solar during the day and grid power other times of the day. If you're on a grid that uses net metering, you can completely offset your power consumption with solar.
If you're not on the grid, fuel cells may be a good solution for power storage.
BECAUSE SOLAR PANELS are EASILY Damaged, just use maddox's 1000000 penny bomb, and spread them over the solar fields...
The USA and other military countries will not tolerate an easily attackable energy infrastructure. Look at nuke plants. I have seen test video of jets travelling in excess of mach 3 barely denting the outer concrete shell.
You're neglecting the fact that, unlike nuclear, photovoltaic power generation doesn't have to be central. In fact, you largely eliminate transmission losses if you distribute the panels all over town. That eliminates the one point of failure. You probably don't want to do that with nuclear.
Not too many years from now, oil demand will permanently outstrip supply
Not to be picky, but demand only outstrips supply if there's some sort of price control or subsidy. As long as the market is free to work, demand will decline due to higher prices, and demand will equal supply.
I'd say that any CTO who is reliant on VB, or any other proprietary technology, has just learned an important lesson. That decision can come back to bite you in the ass.
I'd fire your ass. It will be better in the long run to recode the stuff you did already than to put up with your obfuscated code, only to have you quit after 5 years.
Besides, if you make it that bad, you'll have just as much trouble figuring it out as someone else will when it comes time to fix it.
Well, strictly speaking, all software producers that charge higher than the cost of producing and shipping one more copy are exerting market power. What's happening is that microsoft is being attracted to a market where a monopoly exists (by someone else) by the high profits possible, and the competition reduces prices. It's still not the market setting prices, but Microsoft deciding which price will maximize profits. The problem is that no software company can survive only selling software if they don't have some monopoly power, because the marginal costs for software are so low - that's the price free markets set, and in the case of software it's less than the cost of developing it in the first place.
In the future, markets will eventually force most commercial software to be pretty close to free.
Well, I think he's a bit of an extremist. Of course, you need someone like that to start the revolution.
Later on, it's better to have more flexible people running things (I'm thinking Torvalds, here, for instance), but it's always useful to have someone acting as a conscience, urging everyone to do better.
I agrew with the inclusion of liberal arts courses, especially with the other poster who suggested that english sticks with you longer.
I'm currently in university, and I've noticed that a lot of my colleagues can't write in a comprehensible manner. My opinion is that if you can't pass english 1000 with a decent mark, you aren't ready for the workforce.
So they're creating a service designed to cost spammers money. It seems to me that computer crime generally gets classified as using computer resources in a way not intended by the provider and in a way that costs the provider money. Lycos isn't just opening themselves up to lawsuits, they're inviting criminal prosecution. Anyone using the client would be subject to the same kind of risk.
I believe that selling Unix licences was a small part of the agreement, especially since 95% of all licence fees would be remitted to Novell. The biggest part, for SCO, was that they would continue the development of Unixware and their own version of Unix, which they would be able to sell commercially.
But the main reason the expertise is American is that's where all the top performance chips are designed. If other countries started producing chips, how long do you think it would take to develop the same level of expertise? Remember, there was a time when the Japanese didn't have the expertise to make quality cars.
I think the part of the article mentioning how this would benefit China was right on. In the last year or so, there's been a lot of noise about how China wants to start producing domestically designed chips, and set up barriers to foreign producers. Even the fact that this legislation has been proposed might serve as adequate justification for measures to prop up their domestic producers if they were ever called on it by the WTO or other trade organization.
Fast forward five years when Chinese chips are being sold in $99 computer systems at Wal-Mart, and legislators are wondering how to make American producers competitive with China...
The solution there would be to find some service that they could charge you $20 - $30 per month for, and get you into a contract for two years. Then they could give the things out for free. It would also have to be something that you couldn't do on a cellphone.
True. But they can walk away from this particular case. It looks like if they pursue this one (the slander of title), they will be found to have no copyrights very quickly, then no case in the others, after Novell asks for and receives a summary judgement. If they walk away from this case, they can FUD and delay in the other cases for a year or so before they're done. This whole exercise is one of stock manipulation, so if they're still alive in court, they can still spin something to their benefit in the next year.
For the reasons stated above, Plaintiff's Motion to Remand is DENIED, and Defendant's Motion to Dismiss is DENIED as to Plaintiff's pleading of falsity and GRANTED as to Plaintiff's pleading of special damages. Plaintiff is granted 30 days from the date of this Order to amend its Complaint to more specifically plead special damages.
DATED this 9th day of June, 2004.
BY THE COURT:
[signature of Dale A. Kimball] DALE A. KIMBALL, United States District Judge
Note that he says the motion to dismiss is denied on one set of grounds, but granted on another.
Actually, I'm hoping that Microsoft comes in to top up their legal fund. I'd like to see all these cases settled once and for all. If SCO goes belly-up beforehand, people will point to it as the little guy getting screwed over by IBM. Let the court system screw them instead.
Except after reading the judges statements elsewhere in his decision, they'd be better off just letting this one die. If they managed to come up with a list of special damages, then the copyright will have to be decided. The judge seems to have already indicated that decision is not likely to be in favour of SCO. If SCO is found to not have the copyrights, then they don't have a case in the Redhat, IBM, Novell or AutoZone cases.
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No matter what prices do, use of oil as fuel will pretty much stop when it takes the energy equivalent of a barrel of oil to extract a barrel of oil. At that point, there will still be plenty of oil left for making plastics and other industrial uses.
I suspect that price will eliminate use of oil as a fuel long before this point, though.
Solar panels by themselves are fine if you're still on the grid. Since we're not likely to go 100% solar any time soon, you use solar during the day and grid power other times of the day. If you're on a grid that uses net metering, you can completely offset your power consumption with solar.
If you're not on the grid, fuel cells may be a good solution for power storage.
You're neglecting the fact that, unlike nuclear, photovoltaic power generation doesn't have to be central. In fact, you largely eliminate transmission losses if you distribute the panels all over town. That eliminates the one point of failure. You probably don't want to do that with nuclear.
If you're anything like me, it's probably a good thing your girlfriend doesn't know what you're thinking.
I'd say that any CTO who is reliant on VB, or any other proprietary technology, has just learned an important lesson. That decision can come back to bite you in the ass.
I'd fire your ass. It will be better in the long run to recode the stuff you did already than to put up with your obfuscated code, only to have you quit after 5 years.
Besides, if you make it that bad, you'll have just as much trouble figuring it out as someone else will when it comes time to fix it.
Next step is putting these things on bicycles. They're even more fuel efficient, and result in even less wear and tear. Gotta nip that in the bud.
Well, strictly speaking, all software producers that charge higher than the cost of producing and shipping one more copy are exerting market power. What's happening is that microsoft is being attracted to a market where a monopoly exists (by someone else) by the high profits possible, and the competition reduces prices. It's still not the market setting prices, but Microsoft deciding which price will maximize profits. The problem is that no software company can survive only selling software if they don't have some monopoly power, because the marginal costs for software are so low - that's the price free markets set, and in the case of software it's less than the cost of developing it in the first place.
In the future, markets will eventually force most commercial software to be pretty close to free.
Well, I think he's a bit of an extremist. Of course, you need someone like that to start the revolution.
Later on, it's better to have more flexible people running things (I'm thinking Torvalds, here, for instance), but it's always useful to have someone acting as a conscience, urging everyone to do better.
I agrew with the inclusion of liberal arts courses, especially with the other poster who suggested that english sticks with you longer.
I'm currently in university, and I've noticed that a lot of my colleagues can't write in a comprehensible manner. My opinion is that if you can't pass english 1000 with a decent mark, you aren't ready for the workforce.
Women become infertile now because their eggs get old and unsuitable.
Make people healthier and more youthful, and they will become infertile because they ran out of eggs. They have a lot of 'em, though...
So they're creating a service designed to cost spammers money. It seems to me that computer crime generally gets classified as using computer resources in a way not intended by the provider and in a way that costs the provider money. Lycos isn't just opening themselves up to lawsuits, they're inviting criminal prosecution. Anyone using the client would be subject to the same kind of risk.
Mmmm... network-enabled 32-bit burritos!
No, it was Matt. He didn't talk about how he went there, he talked about how Columbine was a rival high school.
I believe that selling Unix licences was a small part of the agreement, especially since 95% of all licence fees would be remitted to Novell. The biggest part, for SCO, was that they would continue the development of Unixware and their own version of Unix, which they would be able to sell commercially.
Well, compared to urea and water, viruses are huge. Even the components of viruses (proteins, genetic molecules) are huge compared to urea.
But the main reason the expertise is American is that's where all the top performance chips are designed. If other countries started producing chips, how long do you think it would take to develop the same level of expertise?
Remember, there was a time when the Japanese didn't have the expertise to make quality cars.
I think the part of the article mentioning how this would benefit China was right on. In the last year or so, there's been a lot of noise about how China wants to start producing domestically designed chips, and set up barriers to foreign producers. Even the fact that this legislation has been proposed might serve as adequate justification for measures to prop up their domestic producers if they were ever called on it by the WTO or other trade organization.
Fast forward five years when Chinese chips are being sold in $99 computer systems at Wal-Mart, and legislators are wondering how to make American producers competitive with China...
The solution there would be to find some service that they could charge you $20 - $30 per month for, and get you into a contract for two years. Then they could give the things out for free. It would also have to be something that you couldn't do on a cellphone.
I don't think it's likely, though.
True. But they can walk away from this particular case. It looks like if they pursue this one (the slander of title), they will be found to have no copyrights very quickly, then no case in the others, after Novell asks for and receives a summary judgement. If they walk away from this case, they can FUD and delay in the other cases for a year or so before they're done. This whole exercise is one of stock manipulation, so if they're still alive in court, they can still spin something to their benefit in the next year.
Note that he says the motion to dismiss is denied on one set of grounds, but granted on another.
Actually, I'm hoping that Microsoft comes in to top up their legal fund. I'd like to see all these cases settled once and for all. If SCO goes belly-up beforehand, people will point to it as the little guy getting screwed over by IBM. Let the court system screw them instead.
Except after reading the judges statements elsewhere in his decision, they'd be better off just letting this one die. If they managed to come up with a list of special damages, then the copyright will have to be decided. The judge seems to have already indicated that decision is not likely to be in favour of SCO. If SCO is found to not have the copyrights, then they don't have a case in the Redhat, IBM, Novell or AutoZone cases.
But that's the problem. The web browser shouldn't be integrated that way into the system.