The biggest problem is probably the great depth at which the installation needs to be build and the distance it would be from the customer.
Especially after the 1973 energy crisis a lot of experiments have been done around the world to harness this Geothermal energy.
For example in Italy near the famous Vesuvius, Campi Flegreii, a couple of wells were drilled (between 1200 and 2000 m. deep) and the natural aquifers produced successfully.
The problem that eventually killed the project was that this superheated water and steam (250-350 degC) carried lots of very nasty impurities like sulphurous compounds and Arsenic.
Of the typical 25-35 mega Watts produced only 5 were actually available after proper disposal of the pollutants.
Of course using natural fumaroles like they do in for example Iceland and Japan is an entirely different matter.
All things you are moaning about are effectively circulating that money in the national economy.
The present administration is spending other nations money, meaning the national debd has reached an all time high. That's money what needs to be paid back in the coming years and even generations.
On top of this Cheney and his gang are milking the nation (and part of the world) by refusing to reform the American energy needs, only because it suits their short sighted personal interests.
The Chinese laugh about the US's budget deficiency and the Arabs and Russians for selling you overpriced oil.
Unless you like running into a wall you might want to reconsider your political vieuws.
Here in The Netherlands there are a lot of companies offering the eee PC 901 but all are with the smaller 12 Gb SSD and XP.
The only 901' s with Linux I' ve seen on offer were on Ebay and from the UK with a UK keyboard.
On one hand a cheap way of getting an XP licence, on the other really annoying for not getting the larger SSD and worse, MS chalking up up 1 more sale while you really are going to run Linux.
Like as a user I like to wring the necks of a few programmers that have labelled the buttons for data exchange between two computational devices respectively 'Upload' and 'Download'.
This leaves to the user to experiment which button goes A-B and which one B-A, this with the real risk of data loss.
Worst but not surprising is that different manufacturers have programmers with opposing ideas...
Indeed, here in The Netherlands the comparisson with a postcard is usual.
At the same time companies are required to have their own privacy policies and instruckt their employees about it. A company might write in their rules that privacy is not guaranteed as you are using company equipment, they are still not permitted to snoop unless it is agreed upon with the in-house works council and there is proper cause.
Oh, and in a couple of months please go out and vote!
They did that 4 yours ago as well and look how that worked out. Oh and then there is the time before that.
I would not be surprised if they made the wrong choice again.
So be carefull with what you wish for,...
Ah no, a little over half of the eligible voted, in the end 62 million of 142 million registered (221 million of voting age) Americans voted Bush back in office.
Truly scary this 28% of the population can give the man so much power, not just inside the USofA but in the world.
I feel with a larger voter participation a next president might be more respected.
As a matter of fact I really like the place and it's people.
And therefore I feel I can and have to speak my mind.
I feel going by the examples I gave things do go wrong, there is a preoccupation with the trivial, be it on a corporate level like the Verizon filter or more public level in the Janet Jackson case.
The example I gave with the very great freedom regarding fire arms has relevance, this policy is based on the cherished concept that People have their own responsibility in handling them.
But the moment something trivial as a naughty word or picture comes around the community needs protection!
We obviously do not agree on what is trivial or important.
Indeed a sorry preoccupation you guys in the USofA have.
Nearly any dickhead can (without serious checks on mental health etc) have guns but the moment someone has a misunderstood name it becomes a management issue.
I know many US ISP's don't allow hosting your own (mail)server at home, what would Verizon have done in case the man registered iamaturd.com (still free!) and pointed libshitz@iamaturd.com to his own server on a Verizon line?
Well at least someone finally had the good taste to not levy a fine for Janet Jackson's titty incident and now the name of Libshitz can be used on Verizon, there is hope!
Oh, and in a couple of months please go out and vote!
Um...it's still 2008, and Bush is still president. He's part of the news story. And it's damn odd that scientific results have to be 'discussed' with him before they're released.
I don't see it as odd at all, Bush still hopes his party can stay in power, for this he depends heavily on these delusioned ID and Creationist 'Christians'. And before such news of life off of Earth broke these guys will need to have a new twist available to adapt their theory, sorry, fact book.
The man is a British subject acting in and from Britain, he should expect to be tried according to British law on British soil.
I know there is a reciprocal (but generally considered limp sided) extradition treaty between the US and Britain but we are still talking about 'crimes' committed under British jurisdiction.
And let's not forget there is a huge difference in appreciation of human rights between Western Europe and the US.
The problem is that by Western European standards (yes even including British) the US prison system is rotten and even while waiting for judgement you are exposed to things like 'Bubba' and the issues around picking up a bar of soap.
There is no reason to try this man outside of the jurisdiction from where he did his thing and according to the laws governing that jurisdiction.
Please get it right: The cause of this was Cuba threatening to attack the United States with nuclear missiles.
The embargo was justified. It won't even be open to discussion until Fidel Castro is verifiably dead. I see massaging the truth/ indoctrination is not limited to the Communist/Dictatorial world...
How about allowing editing before any responses to your post are made? /. participants are found all over the world and by consequence can be in entirely different time zones!
Ehhh...
And then some have daylight saving time and others don't!
Yeah, it's the stupid 1 hour difference!
After running Kubuntu 8.04 Remix for 2 days I recognised a lot of what you just said and reverted back to the KDE 3.5 desktop which is stable, highly configurable (and pleasantly familiar).
I sure hope the developers will not go the Gnome way of locking everything up!
But right now KDE4 is a system in it's infancy and we have to give the guys some time to develop this impressive new model.
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Especially after the 1973 energy crisis a lot of experiments have been done around the world to harness this Geothermal energy.
For example in Italy near the famous Vesuvius, Campi Flegreii, a couple of wells were drilled (between 1200 and 2000 m. deep) and the natural aquifers produced successfully.
The problem that eventually killed the project was that this superheated water and steam (250-350 degC) carried lots of very nasty impurities like sulphurous compounds and Arsenic.
Of the typical 25-35 mega Watts produced only 5 were actually available after proper disposal of the pollutants.
Of course using natural fumaroles like they do in for example Iceland and Japan is an entirely different matter.
And it can be confiscated.
But over here there is a fairly long tradition to just copy the data off with dd and you can keep your kit.
All things you are moaning about are effectively circulating that money in the national economy.
The present administration is spending other nations money, meaning the national debd has reached an all time high. That's money what needs to be paid back in the coming years and even generations.
On top of this Cheney and his gang are milking the nation (and part of the world) by refusing to reform the American energy needs, only because it suits their short sighted personal interests.
The Chinese laugh about the US's budget deficiency and the Arabs and Russians for selling you overpriced oil.
Unless you like running into a wall you might want to reconsider your political vieuws.
Nah.
In fact, Dell XPS m1330's are routinely more expensive with Ubuntu installed.
Dell m1330's are routinely more valuable with Ubuntu installed.
There, fixed it for you!
The only 901' s with Linux I' ve seen on offer were on Ebay and from the UK with a UK keyboard.
On one hand a cheap way of getting an XP licence, on the other really annoying for not getting the larger SSD and worse, MS chalking up up 1 more sale while you really are going to run Linux.
Like as a user I like to wring the necks of a few programmers that have labelled the buttons for data exchange between two computational devices respectively 'Upload' and 'Download'.
This leaves to the user to experiment which button goes A-B and which one B-A, this with the real risk of data loss.
Worst but not surprising is that different manufacturers have programmers with opposing ideas...
At the same time companies are required to have their own privacy policies and instruckt their employees about it. A company might write in their rules that privacy is not guaranteed as you are using company equipment, they are still not permitted to snoop unless it is agreed upon with the in-house works council and there is proper cause.
They did that 4 yours ago as well and look how that worked out. Oh and then there is the time before that. I would not be surprised if they made the wrong choice again.
So be carefull with what you wish for, ...
Ah no, a little over half of the eligible voted, in the end 62 million of 142 million registered (221 million of voting age) Americans voted Bush back in office.
Truly scary this 28% of the population can give the man so much power, not just inside the USofA but in the world.
I feel with a larger voter participation a next president might be more respected.
As a matter of fact I really like the place and it's people.
And therefore I feel I can and have to speak my mind.
I feel going by the examples I gave things do go wrong, there is a preoccupation with the trivial, be it on a corporate level like the Verizon filter or more public level in the Janet Jackson case.
The example I gave with the very great freedom regarding fire arms has relevance, this policy is based on the cherished concept that People have their own responsibility in handling them.
But the moment something trivial as a naughty word or picture comes around the community needs protection!
We obviously do not agree on what is trivial or important.
Nearly any dickhead can (without serious checks on mental health etc) have guns but the moment someone has a misunderstood name it becomes a management issue.
I know many US ISP's don't allow hosting your own (mail)server at home, what would Verizon have done in case the man registered iamaturd.com (still free!) and pointed libshitz@iamaturd.com to his own server on a Verizon line?
Well at least someone finally had the good taste to not levy a fine for Janet Jackson's titty incident and now the name of Libshitz can be used on Verizon, there is hope!
Oh, and in a couple of months please go out and vote!
(Because) I spoke about Creationists and ID supporters.
In my world that's quite a difference with (Roman!) Catholics or main stream Protestants.
I fully agree the Bible does not at any point exclude other life.
And for me the Bible is not a fact book but a guide.
Hi Dubya!
Um...it's still 2008, and Bush is still president. He's part of the news story. And it's damn odd that scientific results have to be 'discussed' with him before they're released.
I don't see it as odd at all, Bush still hopes his party can stay in power, for this he depends heavily on these delusioned ID and Creationist 'Christians'. And before such news of life off of Earth broke these guys will need to have a new twist available to adapt their theory, sorry, fact book.
I know there is a reciprocal (but generally considered limp sided) extradition treaty between the US and Britain but we are still talking about 'crimes' committed under British jurisdiction.
And let's not forget there is a huge difference in appreciation of human rights between Western Europe and the US.
There is no reason to try this man outside of the jurisdiction from where he did his thing and according to the laws governing that jurisdiction.
I could imagine +1 Funny or +1 Sarcastic but don't at all understand the Offtopic...
"looking a person in the eyes", which is considered rude in Western civilisations, but not in East Asian ones.
I am very 'Western' and this statement makes you look 'Weird'.
Averting eye contact is considered a sign of untrustworthiness, and not only in western societies!
(Staring at someone is an other thing).
You miss the point entirely.
Nothing stops you selling off the bits you mentioned but you can't (according to MS) sell the OEM Microsoft licence.
That's one hell of a difference!
Although they are not hackers the names Balmer and Gates would fit in the description of your list :)
It's not my assumption.
It's my experience.
ff3b5 used less memory and was generally easier on resources, especially on my old 500mHz PIII an important issue.
The embargo was justified. It won't even be open to discussion until Fidel Castro is verifiably dead. I see massaging the truth/ indoctrination is not limited to the Communist/Dictatorial world...
Ehhh...
And then some have daylight saving time and others don't! Yeah, it's the stupid 1 hour difference!
But was it forward or backward?
After running Kubuntu 8.04 Remix for 2 days I recognised a lot of what you just said and reverted back to the KDE 3.5 desktop which is stable, highly configurable (and pleasantly familiar).
I sure hope the developers will not go the Gnome way of locking everything up!
But right now KDE4 is a system in it's infancy and we have to give the guys some time to develop this impressive new model.
Ah! Soon we'll see a User Agent Switcher for IE, that way it can pretend to be a safe browser on a robust platform :)
Anyhow, for years I've been using Firefox or Konqueror on Linux for banking at the RABO bank, security is done with the Random Reader of vasco.com