Put this monitor in someone's house and pop up a message that it will cost an extra dollar to dry clothes now versus waiting 6 hours, I think most people will spend the dollar.
The ideal thing will be for it to pop up and say "power is expensive now, wait until it's cheap?" and then allow you to say "no, I want them now" or "yes, please start the dryer automatically when power is x price." The key would be automatically, and probably a setting for how long it waits for cheap power (clothes will never get dry if you ask it to wait for $0.01/kwh).
I was about to say, I pay $2 to $4 a bag for that stuff to put on my blueberries, blackberries, etc. Better yet: use human waste for lawns, fields and golf courses.
You do know that human waste should be labelled "biohazard", don't you?
Why? It's entirely possible to make human waste perfectly sterile (and with not much effort). Obviously we shouldn't go around pooping on lawns, but the amount of nutrients we waste by letting our waste run into the sea is ridiculous. There's a reason we have to use so much artificial fertilizer.
When your computer is known by people before you yourself are, that's an achievement.
When I was in res one of the guys on my floor was a big purveyor of porn on DC++. I'm not sure he actually ever added to the collection, but he was certainly the central repository for anything that got added. Anyway, my friends and I were talking about him at a party and this guy comes up and says, "I'm sorry, but did I just hear that you know OptimusPorn!!!!" Highlight of my first year right there.
In theory we have those. The Canadian Heritage Party is one such example. The problem is, they're generally so batshit crazy, or so poorly organized, that not even the most conservative of conservatives will vote for them.
(Not religious myself)
Not all religion is bad. Religion has done lots of good things for lots of people. Saying that being religious supports the radicals is like saying being a sys admin supports kiddie porn.
I am a christian.
My thoughts on sex ed are not informed by the Bible or a preacher...
And there are lots of Americans just like you. Unfortunately, there are also lots of Americans (and Canadians and British, etc.) who belive that religion can do their thinking for them.
Sorry, I did miss the "maximum" word there. Generally I hate it when people use something's cost as a direct proxy for the amount of energy it took to produce it. A plumbing job doesn't cost a lot because it consumes a lot of energy, it costs a lot because people with the ability to plumb are (relatively) scarce. The pokemon cards thing was a joke.
The $25 million is an excellent proxy for the maximum amount of energy used to produce it.
Not really. Price is determined by energy AND rarity. Raw material prices fluctuate wildly. I have a hard time believing that the energy that goes into producing them fluctuates like that. I also have a hard time believing my $40 holographic charizard card took 400 times the energy as my pidgy card.
Ahhh where are my mod points when I need them. Spot on.
Back in the day, winning the war meant killing the general and routing their troops. Even in more recent times it meant destroying their industrial production to the point where they couldn't put up a fight.
However, war has changed. There is no longer an obvious head of command to chop off. There is no industrial production supporting the war. The enemy is made up of pissed off people with $45 guns and rigged-up bombs. They happen to be hugely effective because they are decentralized and aren't afraid to die. To date, the US has fought these wars like catching Hussein or Bin Laden would end things. Like it was chess. It's not.
Winning today's war is fundamentally anchored in not creating more pissed off people that will pick up a cheap gun or build a bomb. It's about convincing people that there's something better than insurgency. It's not about stomping them into the ground.
Every incident like this is one step back in winning the war. I guarantee that this situation just created more angry people with guns. It doesn't matter if it was handled by the book. The book is outdated. War has changed. The army better change too
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Reading the newspaper, watching TV, playing games, finding recipes. Stuff that we did before computers, just an electronic version of such stuff.
But we like doing those on a computer.
Ehh I still prefer reading the news at my dining room table. I also like to have my recipes with me in the kitchen, rather than down on my computer. I can definitely see the use for this.
Which one is correct? Some black people are good at dancing. Some white people are good at dancing. Maybe more black people are good at dancing. I don't know.
The racist implication of making a statement like "blacks are really good at dancing" is the suggestion that they, as a group, being good at something is surprising and needs to be pointed out.
This was always my problem with the medical field (at least here in Canada). One of the major ways to get into med school is go volunteer for some medical clinic in Kenya. At best you're not working for a summer. At worst you're paying your air fare, and a fee to give you the privilege of "volunteering". I, as someone with no money, could never ever afford to do this.
It may be the case that free flowing traffic has more deadly accidents (due to the higher speeds involved) than accidents on congested roads, but the congested roads have a much much higher rate of accidents.
But that's exactly the point. Wouldn't you prefer to crumple a few more bumpers in exchange for killing a few less people? I, personally, would define that as safer.
why are they not gettin up off their ass's and building more power generation plants
Because power demand increase as a curve and power supply increases in steps. Let's say power supply is currently 10,000 units. Next year the demand is expected to go to 10,500 units. A new coal power plant supplies 5,000 units at $1.5 billion dollars (approximate cost of a new plant). A power utility can spend $1.5 BILLION and build a new plant that's going to run at a fraction of its capacity for the next many years, or they can spend a few million dollars and trim demand to fit within their current infrastructure. If you're the power company which do you choose?: the $1.5 billion dollars that will be underutilized for the next ten years, or the few million dollars that ensures your system is running at peak capacity.
Money IS the incentive. And the best way to make that in the energy world is to ensure that your current system is maximized in terms of its use.
One of the major Canadian banks (RBC) was actually giving away netbooks (eeePC 700 I believe) a little while back (to those who switched to them). With that in mind this suggestion doesn't seem that crazy. In reality, you wouldn't even need a full netbook. A small screen, minimal keyboard, network card, and very small SD card would do. Some people might even be willing to pay $100 for them if it meant they could feel safe in their online banking.
We use it in urban planning (architects do too). Google Earth can be linked to Sketchup. You can import terrain from Google Earth, model a structure on it, and then export it back into Earth. You can also use it for some GIS-esque analysis by defining polygons and such on it.
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Put this monitor in someone's house and pop up a message that it will cost an extra dollar to dry clothes now versus waiting 6 hours, I think most people will spend the dollar.
The ideal thing will be for it to pop up and say "power is expensive now, wait until it's cheap?" and then allow you to say "no, I want them now" or "yes, please start the dryer automatically when power is x price." The key would be automatically, and probably a setting for how long it waits for cheap power (clothes will never get dry if you ask it to wait for $0.01/kwh).
Mistake, or really good way to draw attention to your website?
They also have a large medical equipment division.
You do know that human waste should be labelled "biohazard", don't you?
Why? It's entirely possible to make human waste perfectly sterile (and with not much effort). Obviously we shouldn't go around pooping on lawns, but the amount of nutrients we waste by letting our waste run into the sea is ridiculous. There's a reason we have to use so much artificial fertilizer.
Ahh yeah, that's the one. My aunt actually voted for them. Needless to say, I don't speak to her very often.
When your computer is known by people before you yourself are, that's an achievement.
When I was in res one of the guys on my floor was a big purveyor of porn on DC++. I'm not sure he actually ever added to the collection, but he was certainly the central repository for anything that got added. Anyway, my friends and I were talking about him at a party and this guy comes up and says, "I'm sorry, but did I just hear that you know OptimusPorn!!!!" Highlight of my first year right there.
What we need is a party to split the right.
In theory we have those. The Canadian Heritage Party is one such example. The problem is, they're generally so batshit crazy, or so poorly organized, that not even the most conservative of conservatives will vote for them.
Sounds to me like this was a good teaching moment. Heck, I'd be proud if my kids took it upon themselves to outsmart my security methods.
(Not religious myself) Not all religion is bad. Religion has done lots of good things for lots of people. Saying that being religious supports the radicals is like saying being a sys admin supports kiddie porn.
I am a christian. My thoughts on sex ed are not informed by the Bible or a preacher...
And there are lots of Americans just like you. Unfortunately, there are also lots of Americans (and Canadians and British, etc.) who belive that religion can do their thinking for them.
Sorry, I did miss the "maximum" word there. Generally I hate it when people use something's cost as a direct proxy for the amount of energy it took to produce it. A plumbing job doesn't cost a lot because it consumes a lot of energy, it costs a lot because people with the ability to plumb are (relatively) scarce. The pokemon cards thing was a joke.
The $25 million is an excellent proxy for the maximum amount of energy used to produce it.
Not really. Price is determined by energy AND rarity. Raw material prices fluctuate wildly. I have a hard time believing that the energy that goes into producing them fluctuates like that. I also have a hard time believing my $40 holographic charizard card took 400 times the energy as my pidgy card.
The gunner in the helicopter fucked up, I wonder how he lives knowing this everyday.
He rationalizes it. "I was certain they had weapons." "They brought the kids in." "I was given the go ahead to shoot."
Ahhh where are my mod points when I need them. Spot on.
Back in the day, winning the war meant killing the general and routing their troops. Even in more recent times it meant destroying their industrial production to the point where they couldn't put up a fight.
However, war has changed. There is no longer an obvious head of command to chop off. There is no industrial production supporting the war. The enemy is made up of pissed off people with $45 guns and rigged-up bombs. They happen to be hugely effective because they are decentralized and aren't afraid to die. To date, the US has fought these wars like catching Hussein or Bin Laden would end things. Like it was chess. It's not.
Winning today's war is fundamentally anchored in not creating more pissed off people that will pick up a cheap gun or build a bomb. It's about convincing people that there's something better than insurgency. It's not about stomping them into the ground.
Every incident like this is one step back in winning the war. I guarantee that this situation just created more angry people with guns. It doesn't matter if it was handled by the book. The book is outdated. War has changed. The army better change too
Reading the newspaper, watching TV, playing games, finding recipes. Stuff that we did before computers, just an electronic version of such stuff.
But we like doing those on a computer.
Ehh I still prefer reading the news at my dining room table. I also like to have my recipes with me in the kitchen, rather than down on my computer. I can definitely see the use for this.
Which one is correct? Some black people are good at dancing. Some white people are good at dancing. Maybe more black people are good at dancing. I don't know. The racist implication of making a statement like "blacks are really good at dancing" is the suggestion that they, as a group, being good at something is surprising and needs to be pointed out.
This was always my problem with the medical field (at least here in Canada). One of the major ways to get into med school is go volunteer for some medical clinic in Kenya. At best you're not working for a summer. At worst you're paying your air fare, and a fee to give you the privilege of "volunteering". I, as someone with no money, could never ever afford to do this.
How long until this is used as a defense in court?
It may be the case that free flowing traffic has more deadly accidents (due to the higher speeds involved) than accidents on congested roads, but the congested roads have a much much higher rate of accidents.
But that's exactly the point. Wouldn't you prefer to crumple a few more bumpers in exchange for killing a few less people? I, personally, would define that as safer.
Gamma rays have a higher frequency,
Corrected. And thus they have a shorter wavelength.
why are they not gettin up off their ass's and building more power generation plants
Because power demand increase as a curve and power supply increases in steps. Let's say power supply is currently 10,000 units. Next year the demand is expected to go to 10,500 units. A new coal power plant supplies 5,000 units at $1.5 billion dollars (approximate cost of a new plant). A power utility can spend $1.5 BILLION and build a new plant that's going to run at a fraction of its capacity for the next many years, or they can spend a few million dollars and trim demand to fit within their current infrastructure. If you're the power company which do you choose?: the $1.5 billion dollars that will be underutilized for the next ten years, or the few million dollars that ensures your system is running at peak capacity. Money IS the incentive. And the best way to make that in the energy world is to ensure that your current system is maximized in terms of its use.
One of the major Canadian banks (RBC) was actually giving away netbooks (eeePC 700 I believe) a little while back (to those who switched to them). With that in mind this suggestion doesn't seem that crazy. In reality, you wouldn't even need a full netbook. A small screen, minimal keyboard, network card, and very small SD card would do. Some people might even be willing to pay $100 for them if it meant they could feel safe in their online banking.
You guys need to stick to trying to make what people want now
Yeah, why the hell would we ever want to do some long-term strategic business planning? Planning ahead is for fools.
We use it in urban planning (architects do too). Google Earth can be linked to Sketchup. You can import terrain from Google Earth, model a structure on it, and then export it back into Earth. You can also use it for some GIS-esque analysis by defining polygons and such on it.
So wait, our current energy sources are so good and new ones might have problems so we should never try to innovate?