I don't understand why this "it has not been proven whether higher manufacturing energy costs kept the new lighting from offering a net gain" argument has any traction.
It's simple economics: Energy costs money and nobody in the manufacturing supply chain is going to provide free energy. So assuming everyone is making a profit (or breaking even at least) then the price the consumer pays must cover the cost of the energy used in manufacture and transport.
So if the end consumer realizes a net saving at the end of the product's life then then it's a genuine net gain.
(I am assuming here that energy prices are in the same ball park the world over and have the same fossil fuel vs renewable ratio: a crude assumption but I think sufficient for this argument).
I don't have the latest figures, but I'm pretty sure that MacOSX desktop figures far outweight those of any Linux distribution (right now anyway;-)
MacOSX is a real OS. What's the virus situation here? I think it will be a good indication of what life will be like when Linux desktop becomes more common.
BTW: this is a question... not a statement, but my hunch is that MacOSX malware is rare (?)
Wrong! Only a monopoly can pass all costs to the consumers. Anything other than a monopoly can only push up prices so much before sale start to diminish.
By saying this, Microsoft, in effect is admitting to being a monopoly.
Well please tell us one country that can do something without screwing up once in a while.
I saw a documentary on the builing of this probe. Amazing the amount of sweat and tears that have gone into this project. It may be cheap on paper, but if you count all the hours that have been put into this project at contractor rates it wouldn't be as cheap you you think.
If you are paying for a service then its legit. If they tax music swapping, then music swapping has to be a legit operation. You don't see special categories of taxes for income from bank raids!
The sensible thing to do is to use technology to make the existing system more efficient. Ie use scanners and optical recognition to count the ballot papers. Fall back to traditional counting if there is any doubt or if the technology fails.
The Irish Lotto (nation Lottery) is an example of such a paper/electronic hybrid system in operation.
The current system is analogous to having our votes shipped abroad, counted using an unknown system, by persons unknown with no outside review allowed. Having all the votes shredded and then a final answer announced with no possibility for recount.
Its amazing, when it comes to technology people in general are so clueless. Even very fundamental changes in the workings of our democracy can be changed with very little resistence.
I believe I have memories from a very early age (before I could walk).
My father used to regularly display his collection of 35mm slides. I saw pics from outings and holidays over, and over.. and I believe as a result of this I still have real memories surrounding those events. We didn't have a TV when I was young, probably making the slides more interesting.
Also a few unplesant things stick out from a very early age(bad falls etc).
* Inside EU zone * Insize Euro currency zone * Natives speak English as first language * Good coroporate tax rates (10%) * Wages less than US and some parts of EU (althogh they are rising) * Time zone difference to US less than that of rest of Europe * Education system is well respected. * Guinness:-)
I've stopped taking client side Java seriously
years ago.
Its at the server end where Java really shines. I've tried many application development environments, but you just can't beat Java for
fast, scaleable and easily maintainable
web apps.
There may be hope for the client side yet, but
last I looked Swing was still too slow for
comfortable use on the Linux port of Sun's JDK.
Trinity College Dublin recently had the
famous Book of Cells digitized, but for
some strange reason you can only get the
results of this by BUYING a CD-ROM.
Anyone know why they are not making this
available online (I suspect this has
something to do with profit)
Many GSM phones can only store a hand full of messages. Once full, no further messages can get through. This could have very serious consequences if you rely on this service for important information.
My Telco had the cheak to spam me recently (Eircell http://www.eircell.ie)... which annoyed me very much.
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That will probably be all undone as a condition to EU membership (which I think is inevitable at this point).
I don't understand why this "it has not been proven whether higher manufacturing energy costs kept the new lighting from offering a net gain" argument has any traction.
It's simple economics: Energy costs money and nobody in the manufacturing supply chain is going to provide free energy. So assuming everyone is making a profit (or breaking even at least) then the price the consumer pays must cover the cost of the energy used in manufacture and transport.
So if the end consumer realizes a net saving at the end of the product's life then then it's a genuine net gain.
(I am assuming here that energy prices are in the same ball park the world over and have the same fossil fuel vs renewable ratio: a crude assumption but I think sufficient for this argument).
Computers are tools to solve problems. From my experience, those who use them as such, know how to use them best.
Degrees in using computers are like degrees in using hammers...
http://www.theregister.com/2004/06/02/nokia_she
I don't have the latest figures, but I'm pretty sure that MacOSX desktop figures far outweight those of any Linux distribution (right now anyway ;-)
MacOSX is a real OS. What's the virus situation here? I think it will be a good indication of what life will be like when Linux desktop becomes more common.
BTW: this is a question... not a statement, but my hunch is that MacOSX malware is rare (?)
Wrong! Only a monopoly can pass all costs to the consumers. Anything other than a monopoly can only push up prices so much before sale start to diminish.
By saying this, Microsoft, in effect is admitting to being a monopoly.
Well please tell us one country that can do something without screwing up once in a while.
I saw a documentary on the builing of this probe. Amazing the amount of sweat and tears that have gone into this project. It may be cheap on paper, but if you count all the hours that have been put into this project at contractor rates it wouldn't be as cheap you you think.
Hey, do you think they'll give up after only two retrials?
If you are paying for a service then its legit. If they tax music swapping, then music swapping has to be a legit operation. You don't see special categories of taxes for income from bank raids!
The sensible thing to do is to use technology to make the existing system more efficient. Ie use scanners and optical recognition to count the ballot papers. Fall back to traditional counting if there is any doubt or if the technology fails.
The Irish Lotto (nation Lottery) is an example of such a paper/electronic hybrid system in operation.
The current system is analogous to having our votes shipped abroad, counted using an unknown system, by persons unknown with no outside review allowed. Having all the votes shredded and then a final answer announced with no possibility for recount.
Its amazing, when it comes to technology people in general are so clueless. Even very fundamental changes in the workings of our democracy can be changed with very little resistence.
I was a text editor/command line person until I encountered Eclipse 2 and I've never looked back since. http://www.eclipse.org/
Only (small) drawback is that the UI is just a tad sluggish. But if you have a 1GHz+ machine you're unlikely to notice.
And if you are a webapp developer the Tomcat plugin really makes life easy.
When working out your "mpg" remember:
gallon (US) = 3.7854 litre
gallon (UK) = 4.5460 litre
So please state your units. Gallons is ambiguous. Better still... use metric.
I believe I have memories from a very early age
(before I could walk).
My father used to regularly display his collection
of 35mm slides. I saw pics from outings and holidays over, and over.. and I believe as a result of this I still have real memories surrounding those events. We didn't have a TV when I was young,
probably making the slides more interesting.
Also a few unplesant things stick out from a very early age(bad falls etc).
Beware of con letters from "Domain Registry of
Europe" (based in UK). They are trying the same
scam as Verisign.
In a nutshell:
:-)
* Inside EU zone
* Insize Euro currency zone
* Natives speak English as first language
* Good coroporate tax rates (10%)
* Wages less than US and some parts of EU (althogh
they are rising)
* Time zone difference to US less than that of rest
of Europe
* Education system is well respected.
* Guinness
Ya, ...x-raying and freezing people to death
(comon in 1940s Germany apperently) does not
seem to happen much these days.
All those features used together is going
to make a big mess, IMHO. I think your
boss needs some education in computer science.
I'd recommend you look at Java and Python.
Operator overloading is not a good idea I think.
I really couldn't care less for megapixels --
I'd be happy with only 2 megapixels if I could
only have a SLR digicam at an affordable
price.
I've stopped taking client side Java seriously
years ago.
Its at the server end where Java really shines. I've tried many application development environments, but you just can't beat Java for
fast, scaleable and easily maintainable
web apps.
There may be hope for the client side yet, but
last I looked Swing was still too slow for
comfortable use on the Linux port of Sun's JDK.
Trinity College Dublin recently had the famous Book of Cells digitized, but for some strange reason you can only get the results of this by BUYING a CD-ROM. Anyone know why they are not making this available online (I suspect this has something to do with profit)
For small documents and other data, you just
can't beat emailing it to yourself. And maybe
CC a copy to your Yahoo mail account to.
The Axis webcam (which is Linux based -- see http://www.axis.com/ ) has both RS232, 10baseT and digital I/O lines.
See
http://www.wombat.ie/gps/saoff.gif
for a GNUPlot graph of SA being
switch off.
Many GSM phones can only store a hand full
of messages. Once full, no further messages
can get through. This could have
very serious consequences if you rely
on this service for important information.
My Telco had the cheak to spam me recently
(Eircell http://www.eircell.ie)... which
annoyed me very much.
No mention of a PAL version for us Europeans ?!
Also the resolution seems a little low -- is
180k pixels enough to be equivalent to
a wide screen TV?