I work for a smaller DoD related company (17k employees, so not that small really) and I hear nothing but horror stories about NG, and have experienced one of them myself. NG originally developed our project but was not allowed to bid on the re-compete where we picked it up. It was bad, but we are fixing it. I really can't say much more than that at the moment.
And without using the ever depleting natural aquifers for irrigation? the Ogallala aquifer has a replenishment cycle of hundreds of thousands of years, we have emptied half of it in the last ~80.
When it is empty, the vast majority of current US farm land is going to turn to desert and blow away. There is no alternative source of water for irrigating that amount of land.
The pre-release file sharing was the marketing campaign. Its ok though, because its cheaper than real advertising and you can always sue the people you gave the film to if you don't make enough money.
I still go to the movies, but only at the cheap place on Tuesdays. $5 gets me a movie date with a drink and popcorn for the girl. I still skipped Hurt Locker. I won't even go for it from red box. Hell, I won't even waste the bandwidth to download the POS.
There are dvd editors available on linux. Gimp is about equal to photoshop for all but the most finicky image editing tasks, and as of the last version, it even has a better UI. OpenOffice works fine compared to word.
As for the other 3? I have no idea, never had to deal with their kind.
Or... You could make your job pay for your work machine and use whatever you like at home, be it mac, linux or windows.
Coal is pretty constant as well. They usually have huge furnaces and boilers that take hours or even days to warm up.
Any generation capable of responding to demand is underutilized production.
Hydroelectric plants can change their production rate very quickly.
Gas turbine generators running on natural gas or jet fuel can be switched on or off in a matter of minutes.
Solar thermal plants have can generate power 24 hours a day with heat storage. It may also be possible to keep them going for longer periods using hydrogen or natural gas burners to keep the steam turbines spinning in cases where the reflectors have been damaged or obscured.
That would have had no effect. This rig already existed, stopping new construction of rigs would have made no difference except that when the moratorium ends you have workers that are out of practice.
Clean coal? I hate to tell you this... No, actually, I love to tell you this. Clean coal is a lie.
You would get more energy out of coal if you were to filter the radioactive particles from it and use that in a nuclear reactor than if you had burned the coal normally.
All that ash and coke, full of mercury, heavy metals and other toxic stuff has to go somewhere, It either goes in the air for us all to breath or it gets stored and eventually makes its way into our soil and water supply.
CO2 sequestration can not work, you are talking about pumping billions of tons of gas underground into pockets in the rock. This has been shown to cause minor earthquakes, those earthquakes will eventually result in a blowout event, a blowout event will kill everyone in the area as the CO2 suffocates everyone, similar events happen all the time in Africa with natural CO2 sources.
Nuclear? sure, but we need to reprocess waste instead of storing it, preferably inside the reactor. Solar? sure. Wind? Ok, but it is unreliable so you can't rely on it for than a relatively small amount of the grid power. Clean Coal? make me laugh.
The trick is to file 100 lawsuits in 100 different courts, this makes it so that even appearing is impossible due to conflicting schedules and the cost of hiring 100 attorneys to show up and or fight for against default judgment if you missed one. Oh.... Sony did it first.
Another issue with trusting the free market to regulate dwindling resources is that the free market principal is based on the assumption that all actors are both well informed and rational.
There is vast profit in ensuring that people remain ignorant and irrational so that a few can game the free market system.
Right now, most people are completely unaware that our food production capacity is unsustainable and will collapse within our lifetime if we do not radically change the way we are doing things.
A: Technology can only go so far. B: the cost of our vast technological improvement in food production technology is the depletion of our natural resources from unsustainable use. Its not just soil quality and water levels in aquifers, but other sources as well (IIRC we are on our 6th species of "white fish" on grocery shelves because the previous species have been fished to the point where they can no longer be economically harvested).
Exponential growth is ultimately unsustainable. Natural resources are not infinite, and not only that, they can be depleted. We will run out of oil, we will run out of coal, we will run out of easily accessible fresh water, we will run out of nutrient rich soil, we will run out of land on earth, our sun will die, seeming eternal protons will decay from unimaginable eons of time.
There is a social pressure in developed nations where your children are not required to work your farm to have fewer children to increase lifestyle on a middle class income.
Sperm motility and productivity in human males is declining around the globe and we don't really know why. Our best guess at the moment is that estrogen like chemicals leaching from plastics may be involved.
The food supply curve is not exponential. It has exceeded exponential growth for a century, but only by consuming ever increasingly scarce resources to do so. Soil quality and aquifer levels are dramatically declining, soon even oil based fertilizers (that will become prohibitively expensive with peak oil) won't be enough to keep up production.
Malthus was failed to account for technological advances and declining human fertility. But he also failed to account for destruction of the soil and irrigation systems from over production. His ideas were far from perfect, but they do have merit.
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There are have been a few over the years, just like for macs. Contrast that with 10s of thousands for windows.
I guess that -1 flamebait is an analog for -1 retarded?
I work for a smaller DoD related company (17k employees, so not that small really) and I hear nothing but horror stories about NG, and have experienced one of them myself. NG originally developed our project but was not allowed to bid on the re-compete where we picked it up. It was bad, but we are fixing it. I really can't say much more than that at the moment.
And without using the ever depleting natural aquifers for irrigation? the Ogallala aquifer has a replenishment cycle of hundreds of thousands of years, we have emptied half of it in the last ~80.
When it is empty, the vast majority of current US farm land is going to turn to desert and blow away. There is no alternative source of water for irrigating that amount of land.
The pre-release file sharing was the marketing campaign. Its ok though, because its cheaper than real advertising and you can always sue the people you gave the film to if you don't make enough money.
I still go to the movies, but only at the cheap place on Tuesdays. $5 gets me a movie date with a drink and popcorn for the girl. I still skipped Hurt Locker. I won't even go for it from red box. Hell, I won't even waste the bandwidth to download the POS.
I've been playing terrorists in Tac Ops for nearly a decade.
I've played right along side a friend that fought in the second gulf war, and one who was army intelligence in Korea.
It is nothing that they can not handle. If anything making it unavailable would be seen as disrespect.
There are dvd editors available on linux.
Gimp is about equal to photoshop for all but the most finicky image editing tasks, and as of the last version, it even has a better UI.
OpenOffice works fine compared to word.
As for the other 3? I have no idea, never had to deal with their kind.
Or... You could make your job pay for your work machine and use whatever you like at home, be it mac, linux or windows.
Coal is pretty constant as well. They usually have huge furnaces and boilers that take hours or even days to warm up.
Any generation capable of responding to demand is underutilized production.
Hydroelectric plants can change their production rate very quickly.
Gas turbine generators running on natural gas or jet fuel can be switched on or off in a matter of minutes.
Solar thermal plants have can generate power 24 hours a day with heat storage. It may also be possible to keep them going for longer periods using hydrogen or natural gas burners to keep the steam turbines spinning in cases where the reflectors have been damaged or obscured.
Nice try anon, or should I call you T. Boone Pickens?
That would have had no effect. This rig already existed, stopping new construction of rigs would have made no difference except that when the moratorium ends you have workers that are out of practice.
Clean coal? I hate to tell you this... No, actually, I love to tell you this. Clean coal is a lie.
You would get more energy out of coal if you were to filter the radioactive particles from it and use that in a nuclear reactor than if you had burned the coal normally.
All that ash and coke, full of mercury, heavy metals and other toxic stuff has to go somewhere, It either goes in the air for us all to breath or it gets stored and eventually makes its way into our soil and water supply.
CO2 sequestration can not work, you are talking about pumping billions of tons of gas underground into pockets in the rock. This has been shown to cause minor earthquakes, those earthquakes will eventually result in a blowout event, a blowout event will kill everyone in the area as the CO2 suffocates everyone, similar events happen all the time in Africa with natural CO2 sources.
Nuclear? sure, but we need to reprocess waste instead of storing it, preferably inside the reactor.
Solar? sure.
Wind? Ok, but it is unreliable so you can't rely on it for than a relatively small amount of the grid power.
Clean Coal? make me laugh.
Aha! So that is how he walked on water! It was not a miracle, it was a more like a beach ball.
The trick is to file 100 lawsuits in 100 different courts, this makes it so that even appearing is impossible due to conflicting schedules and the cost of hiring 100 attorneys to show up and or fight for against default judgment if you missed one. Oh.... Sony did it first.
Jesus, you are 1.5 meters in diameter? I lived in Mississippi and saw fatties every day, but 1.5 meters is still pretty damn wide.
Thats funny, its illegal to use a social security number for any purpose other than taxes or social security benefits.
And all that sustainable agriculture is less productive than the unsustainable methods in the short term.
If all agriculture was sustainable then we would be producing less food right now.
Another issue with trusting the free market to regulate dwindling resources is that the free market principal is based on the assumption that all actors are both well informed and rational.
There is vast profit in ensuring that people remain ignorant and irrational so that a few can game the free market system.
Right now, most people are completely unaware that our food production capacity is unsustainable and will collapse within our lifetime if we do not radically change the way we are doing things.
A: Technology can only go so far. B: the cost of our vast technological improvement in food production technology is the depletion of our natural resources from unsustainable use. Its not just soil quality and water levels in aquifers, but other sources as well (IIRC we are on our 6th species of "white fish" on grocery shelves because the previous species have been fished to the point where they can no longer be economically harvested).
Exponential growth is ultimately unsustainable. Natural resources are not infinite, and not only that, they can be depleted. We will run out of oil, we will run out of coal, we will run out of easily accessible fresh water, we will run out of nutrient rich soil, we will run out of land on earth, our sun will die, seeming eternal protons will decay from unimaginable eons of time.
There is a social pressure in developed nations where your children are not required to work your farm to have fewer children to increase lifestyle on a middle class income.
Sperm motility and productivity in human males is declining around the globe and we don't really know why. Our best guess at the moment is that estrogen like chemicals leaching from plastics may be involved.
The food supply curve is not exponential. It has exceeded exponential growth for a century, but only by consuming ever increasingly scarce resources to do so. Soil quality and aquifer levels are dramatically declining, soon even oil based fertilizers (that will become prohibitively expensive with peak oil) won't be enough to keep up production.
Malthus was failed to account for technological advances and declining human fertility. But he also failed to account for destruction of the soil and irrigation systems from over production. His ideas were far from perfect, but they do have merit.
<joke>Not me. I find human babies to be delicious, not disgusting! </joke>
It is then harder to verify that the source is legitimate.
That or a congressional pay raise.
Since when were the democrats anti-big business? The only difference is which big business they support.