Obviously my simplistic argumentation is beyond your comprehension.
In HVAC applications a heat pump is normally also an air conditioner - exactly the sort of installation one would want if heat is normally required only a small part of the year as in most cases this would be also a case where air conditioning is used extensively.
This is nothing new. High fidelity disappeared from pop music when producers realized that it needed to sound good over AM car radios; the iPod ear bud is high fidelity by comparison.
Fortunately there are other music genres that aren't driven by the need to sell mp3s to iPod owners. Some classical recording engineers do a fine job, and use SOTA gear including exotics like Quad ESLs to qualify their work.
Technical advances in sound measurement, speaker design, op-amp quality and mass electronics production have actually made this a golden age of high fidelity. It is now possible to put together a hi-fi system for much less than it cost 10-20 years ago.
The real problem is that people are conditioned by television to have shorter and shorter attention spans. Settling down to listen to an hour of classical music in the blipvert age now seems quaint and anachronistic.
) being forced to replace something to save/conserve/curb energy usage with something that if it breaks, releases a toxic substance.
True, Of course you are missing the fact that energy generation releases far more toxic substances, and in far greater quantity when powering than non-toxic energy hog.
If you are heating a house using direct electric heat, you are burning 3-4 TIMES the amount of fossil fuel than if you heated using the fuel to heat the home, and your heating costs are horrific. This is an absolutely insane way to heat a home.
If you are using electricity to drive a heat pump then you are in better shape - but then the electricity going into an incandescent light bulb is mostly wasted by comparison with your heat pump, and CFL makes sense.
What is so stunning about this whole thing is the resistance to CFLs. The conventional incandescent light bulb converts about 1.3% of the energy in the fuel used to power it into light. That is absolutely a horrific waste.
The amount of mercury in a CFL is much less than what is released from the burning of coal to generate the power wasted by running an incandescent bulb. PLUS by recycling spent CFL's you can recover even that small amount.
Mercury in CFL's is a red herring. The end result from using CFL's will be less mercury in the environment.
Plenty of people heat their house with electricity.
Plenty of people are total idiots too.
LOTS more people cool their house with electricity. Throw in the cost of removing the wast heat from incandescent light bulbs using electrically powered air conditioning and you are looking at some serious energy savings.
Warner owns New Line, so if they owned the movie rights there would be no problem.
But Saul Zaentz owns the movie rights, not Warner. MGM owns the distribution rights.
Zaentz has a contract with New Line giving them access to the movie rights which expires at the end of this year and has insisted that Jackson direct or produce the film.
Adobe has been moving away from serverside development (i.e. JRun). Opening AMF will allow other app server vendors to offer AMF implementations that adhere to known specifications, rather than reversed engineered versions. Ultimately this will improve the acceptance of Flash remoting applications which will be good for Adobe.
If a baby bell's billing system went down all the phone calls dialed, started, or completed while it was down were free.
I call bullshit. Telco switches record the calls to CDR (call data records) files before sending the data on to the billing systems. If the billing system goes down no big whoop, the files are processed the next day.
Now there are some cases when calls could get lost - but those are due to emergency traffic through the switch during overload conditions having a higher process priority than the processes that record the traffic to CDR files.
I'm not particularly interested in the plot tweaks, but I am VERY interested in the extensive remastering and sound improvements. The DVD I have now is a pretty poor transfer, almost unwatchable. A good quality remaster in MOST welcome.
As soon as you mentioned type inference I knew you are inexperienced. Use of this technique always requires some other limitations to what the language can do, c.f. the attempts to implement it in Python. FC functions look like fun - until you try to implement them portably. As far as lists and dictionaries, Java's collections classes are just about the best you will find. Far superior to what is available in Python or Ruby.
You have to deal with huge inheritance trees, interfaces, generics, and all sorts of mechanisms to overcome the language's massive shortcomings, and define all sorts of classes for nothing,
There is a long tradition of over-use of inheritance in OOP. Fortunately that practice is dying out. It has nothing to do with the structure of Java, but rather how programmers were taught OOP 10-15 years ago.
Java is one of the things I don't do without getting paid, and if getting paid, I start looking for other jobs once I'm back home.
Unfortunately for you that really limits the amount of work you will be able to get.
The tools to make African nations self-sufficient already exist - high yield cereal grains and the Green Revolution of Norman Borlaug have already worked miracles on every continent. The technology works in Africa too. The problem is strictly political. One part of the problem is the ill-advised efforts of some factions of the environmental movement who oppose use of modern agriculture in Africa. The other, larger part of the problem is the lack of stable governments who make it impossible to bring these techniques to the farmers in most of Africa.
Once a food surplus exists the rest is almost automatic. Birth rates will plummet because most children will survive. Societies will have surplus labor to put to use in building capital, which inevitably starts the cycle of increased productivity. Desertification will stop as yields increase because less land will need to be cultivated.
It is the greatest failure of the nations of the world today that Africa is still toiling in a dark age.
The compile time static type checking in Java vs. dynamic typing in Ruby / Python is really the fundamental difference between using these languages. Java isn't as easy to write or as fun to write, but once you do write it the type checking makes the testing process in Java much faster and more robust. Factor in the Java runtime performance advantage and it becomes fairly obvious that Java is not going to be replaced by Ruby / Python anytime soon.
I really enjoy coding in Python, and write all my personal stuff in this language. But for teams over 3-4 people I think I'd rather use Java.
Without electricity, they may as well resort to RFC1149
What you don't appreciate is how little electricity it takes. A car battery can power a QRPp rig for 10,000 hours of continuous operation, and car batteries are pretty ubiquitous.
Next June, go to a Field Day and see the tremendous skill levels these people bring to the table.
I have Cablevison (Boost which is 30 Mbps up, 5 down) and FIOS available to me. FIOS is slightly less expensive, has lower bandwidth, and doesn't permit servers. Cablevision does allow servers. Cablevision also offers more HD channels and better VOIP options. People who I know who have switched to FIOS complain bitterly about Verizon's billing practices and poor customer service.
I don't see how FIOS is going to put Cablevision out to pasture anytime soon.
Here is a more detailed view of the success of the French military over the years. Personally I don't think it goes back far enough (see Julius Caesar).
Also - I am not sure what you mean by North Africa - the only US involvements I am aware of there were successful. Korea was certainly not a US defeat either. About the only two wars the US was involved in that were not successful were the war of 1812 (which you missed) and Vietnam.
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Obviously my simplistic argumentation is beyond your comprehension.
In HVAC applications a heat pump is normally also an air conditioner - exactly the sort of installation one would want if heat is normally required only a small part of the year as in most cases this would be also a case where air conditioning is used extensively.
Agreed; Fedora is a waste of time because of the upgrade cycle and lack of stability. Not even close to being a challenge to Ubuntu.
This is nothing new. High fidelity disappeared from pop music when producers realized that it needed to sound good over AM car radios; the iPod ear bud is high fidelity by comparison.
Fortunately there are other music genres that aren't driven by the need to sell mp3s to iPod owners. Some classical recording engineers do a fine job, and use SOTA gear including exotics like Quad ESLs to qualify their work.
Technical advances in sound measurement, speaker design, op-amp quality and mass electronics production have actually made this a golden age of high fidelity. It is now possible to put together a hi-fi system for much less than it cost 10-20 years ago.
The real problem is that people are conditioned by television to have shorter and shorter attention spans. Settling down to listen to an hour of classical music in the blipvert age now seems quaint and anachronistic.
During the Vietnam war some US helicopters were using synthetic sapphire crystals for bullet-proof windows.
It's nice they have gotten the process cheap enough for LCD screens. Definitely won't scratch when you clean it with ordinary cleaners.
Incandescent bulbs are very inefficient electric heaters when compared to heat pumps.
Depends on the type of stainless. Austentitic is not ferromagnetic, while martensitic is.
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being forced to replace something to save/conserve/curb energy usage with something that if it breaks, releases a toxic substance.
True, Of course you are missing the fact that energy generation releases far more toxic substances, and in far greater quantity when powering than non-toxic energy hog.
If you are heating a house using direct electric heat, you are burning 3-4 TIMES the amount of fossil fuel than if you heated using the fuel to heat the home, and your heating costs are horrific. This is an absolutely insane way to heat a home.
If you are using electricity to drive a heat pump then you are in better shape - but then the electricity going into an incandescent light bulb is mostly wasted by comparison with your heat pump, and CFL makes sense.
What is so stunning about this whole thing is the resistance to CFLs. The conventional incandescent light bulb converts about 1.3% of the energy in the fuel used to power it into light. That is absolutely a horrific waste.
The amount of mercury in a CFL is much less than what is released from the burning of coal to generate the power wasted by running an incandescent bulb. PLUS by recycling spent CFL's you can recover even that small amount.
Mercury in CFL's is a red herring. The end result from using CFL's will be less mercury in the environment.
Plenty of people heat their house with electricity.
Plenty of people are total idiots too.
LOTS more people cool their house with electricity. Throw in the cost of removing the wast heat from incandescent light bulbs using electrically powered air conditioning and you are looking at some serious energy savings.
Nice - fits in a Budget 24' moving van, with room to spare for a nice load of fertilizer and quite a bit of fuel oil.
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Warner owns New Line, so if they owned the movie rights there would be no problem.
But Saul Zaentz owns the movie rights, not Warner. MGM owns the distribution rights.
Zaentz has a contract with New Line giving them access to the movie rights which expires at the end of this year and has insisted that Jackson direct or produce the film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Zaentz
So if New Line wants a piece of the action they have to make peace with Jackson - apparently this has happened.
Adobe has been moving away from serverside development (i.e. JRun). Opening AMF will allow other app server vendors to offer AMF implementations that adhere to known specifications, rather than reversed engineered versions. Ultimately this will improve the acceptance of Flash remoting applications which will be good for Adobe.
If a baby bell's billing system went down all the phone calls dialed, started, or completed while it was down were free.
I call bullshit. Telco switches record the calls to CDR (call data records) files before sending the data on to the billing systems. If the billing system goes down no big whoop, the files are processed the next day.
Now there are some cases when calls could get lost - but those are due to emergency traffic through the switch during overload conditions having a higher process priority than the processes that record the traffic to CDR files.
I'm not particularly interested in the plot tweaks, but I am VERY interested in the extensive remastering and sound improvements. The DVD I have now is a pretty poor transfer, almost unwatchable. A good quality remaster in MOST welcome.
As soon as you mentioned type inference I knew you are inexperienced. Use of this technique always requires some other limitations to what the language can do, c.f. the attempts to implement it in Python. FC functions look like fun - until you try to implement them portably. As far as lists and dictionaries, Java's collections classes are just about the best you will find. Far superior to what is available in Python or Ruby.
You have to deal with huge inheritance trees, interfaces, generics, and all sorts of mechanisms to overcome the language's massive shortcomings, and define all sorts of classes for nothing,
There is a long tradition of over-use of inheritance in OOP. Fortunately that practice is dying out. It has nothing to do with the structure of Java, but rather how programmers were taught OOP 10-15 years ago.
Java is one of the things I don't do without getting paid, and if getting paid, I start looking for other jobs once I'm back home.
Unfortunately for you that really limits the amount of work you will be able to get.
The tools to make African nations self-sufficient already exist - high yield cereal grains and the Green Revolution of Norman Borlaug have already worked miracles on every continent. The technology works in Africa too. The problem is strictly political. One part of the problem is the ill-advised efforts of some factions of the environmental movement who oppose use of modern agriculture in Africa. The other, larger part of the problem is the lack of stable governments who make it impossible to bring these techniques to the farmers in most of Africa.
Once a food surplus exists the rest is almost automatic. Birth rates will plummet because most children will survive. Societies will have surplus labor to put to use in building capital, which inevitably starts the cycle of increased productivity. Desertification will stop as yields increase because less land will need to be cultivated.
It is the greatest failure of the nations of the world today that Africa is still toiling in a dark age.
The compile time static type checking in Java vs. dynamic typing in Ruby / Python is really the fundamental difference between using these languages. Java isn't as easy to write or as fun to write, but once you do write it the type checking makes the testing process in Java much faster and more robust. Factor in the Java runtime performance advantage and it becomes fairly obvious that Java is not going to be replaced by Ruby / Python anytime soon.
I really enjoy coding in Python, and write all my personal stuff in this language. But for teams over 3-4 people I think I'd rather use Java.
A.N. Kolmogorov must be weeping.
Without electricity, they may as well resort to RFC1149
What you don't appreciate is how little electricity it takes. A car battery can power a QRPp rig for 10,000 hours of continuous operation, and car batteries are pretty ubiquitous.
Next June, go to a Field Day and see the tremendous skill levels these people bring to the table.
This should work.
The article was centering on Comcast.
The article ALSO made a general statement about cable not being able to compete with FIOS. My comment is a perfectly valid counter-example.
Whoever moderated my post as off-topic was clearly in error.
I have Cablevison (Boost which is 30 Mbps up, 5 down) and FIOS available to me. FIOS is slightly less expensive, has lower bandwidth, and doesn't permit servers. Cablevision does allow servers. Cablevision also offers more HD channels and better VOIP options. People who I know who have switched to FIOS complain bitterly about Verizon's billing practices and poor customer service.
I don't see how FIOS is going to put Cablevision out to pasture anytime soon.
What possible international law enforcement agency would enforce a ban on work-alike/look-alike products?
WIPO.
Who would you have enforce the copyrights and trademarks of IBM?
The Department of Justice.
do you think that US Customs should be the filter and prevent such purchases from entering the US?
Check this out.
And if you bought something like this on the Internet and it was confiscated, should the customer just lose their money?
Pretty much.
Here is a more detailed view of the success of the French military over the years.
Personally I don't think it goes back far enough (see Julius Caesar).
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html
Also - I am not sure what you mean by North Africa - the only US involvements I am aware of there were successful. Korea was certainly not a US defeat either. About the only two wars the US was involved in that were not successful were the war of 1812 (which you missed) and Vietnam.