Solar thermal also does not face this problem. It has very, very predictable peak loads and any excess can be stored directly as heat in an underground reservoir of molten salt or heated oil for nighttime use, or you can simply turn a valve and direct the steam away from the traditional turbines.
The worlds largest battery array in Fairbanks Alaska weighs 1300 tons, cost 10s of millions or more, and only stores enough energy for 7 minutes of power for a single medium sized town.
Batteries are far more expensive, far less efficient, and have far less capacity.
Rights, Natural Rights, are universal. They exist for all time, in all places and for all people.
They need not be granted, approved or enumerated by any government.
They can not be removed, except by the direct application of physical force.
Everyone has the right to free speech.
They can remove this right by cutting out your tongue, paralyzing you or even killing you.
Passing a law forbidding free speech does not remove that right, you can still speak freely.
A law forbidding speech does not remove that right, it infringes upon the free expression of that right.
You can follow the law and allow yourself to be intimidated, suffering a chilling effect.
You can still speak, perhaps facing tyranny and injustice in return.
And if you are very lucky, you might be able to overthrow that tyranny and restore justice with a rightful government that respects its peoples rights.
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For it to be a subsidy the money must be given as a direct result of government action.
The legally mandated TV license fee is one such action. The "piracy" taxes added to recordable media in some countries (such as Canada) is another.
I would think that it would be a bigger insult to the people who fought and died for the freedom of you and your countrymen if you were to deny that very freedom to your countrymen in the name of those who fought for it.
From my perspective, if all you need to do is surf, write emails and do some light word processing, then Ubuntu is far and away a better choice than windows 7.
I chose to dual boot ubuntu and windows 7 for the following reasons:
It cost me nothing because I had 10 win7 licenses from an MSDN subscription paid for by my previous employer.
I like to play video games, windows has more of them, and wine is generally a painful experience when it does work.
I need to keep my Visual Studio/C#/ASP.net skills fresh in case I need to find a new job and can't find a local java position quickly enough.
The freedom of expression supersedes the freedom to not be offended. You can choose to be offended by any arbitrary expression, that does not allow you to restrict another persons freedom of expression arbitrarily.
Expression may only be legitimately restricted when it infringes on a greater freedom. Your freedom of religion ends when it means your children are denied the right to life by withholding medical care or being exposed to venomous snakes.
Your freedom of expression likewise ends only where it may be held to deliberately incite actual harm to others, libel and slander (when properly implemented) are examples of this.
I find the very existence of religion to be offensive, by your rational, all religion should be banned because of this.
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No it isn't. That you think so just shows how much you still have left to learn.
I am not a high end programmer either. But I have two degrees on the subject and have been working professionally in the field for years, including optimization and parallelization.
Many algorithms just won't have much improvement with multi-threading.
Many will even perform more poorly due to data contention and the overhead of context switches and creating threads.
Many algorithms just can not be converted to a format that will work within the restrictions of GPGPU computing at all.
The stream architecture of modern GPU's work radically differently than a conventional CPU.
It is not as simple as scaling conventional multi-threading up to thousands of threads.
Certain things that you are used to doing on a normal processor have an insane cost in GPU hardware.
For instance, the if statement. Until recently OpenCL and CUDA didn't allow branching. Now they do, but they incur such a huge penalty in cycles that it just isn't worth it.
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If only California would have allowed those nuclear power plants that they have been fighting against for the last 40 years...
Solar thermal also does not face this problem. It has very, very predictable peak loads and any excess can be stored directly as heat in an underground reservoir of molten salt or heated oil for nighttime use, or you can simply turn a valve and direct the steam away from the traditional turbines.
The worlds largest battery array in Fairbanks Alaska weighs 1300 tons, cost 10s of millions or more, and only stores enough energy for 7 minutes of power for a single medium sized town.
Batteries are far more expensive, far less efficient, and have far less capacity.
For games? AMD is more than enough. Modern games are graphics bound.
An AMD 955 is more than enough cpu for games and will come priced at around $250 less than an intel i7 920 system.
For intel CPU's the 920 is the only one that has a price/performance ratio similar to AMD.
The MSDN licence is mine, in my name, my former employer however was the one to pay for it.
Wrong.
Rights, Natural Rights, are universal. They exist for all time, in all places and for all people.
They need not be granted, approved or enumerated by any government.
They can not be removed, except by the direct application of physical force.
Everyone has the right to free speech.
They can remove this right by cutting out your tongue, paralyzing you or even killing you.
Passing a law forbidding free speech does not remove that right, you can still speak freely.
A law forbidding speech does not remove that right, it infringes upon the free expression of that right.
You can follow the law and allow yourself to be intimidated, suffering a chilling effect.
You can still speak, perhaps facing tyranny and injustice in return.
And if you are very lucky, you might be able to overthrow that tyranny and restore justice with a rightful government that respects its peoples rights.
For it to be a subsidy the money must be given as a direct result of government action.
The legally mandated TV license fee is one such action. The "piracy" taxes added to recordable media in some countries (such as Canada) is another.
Of course, in Ubuntu this just isn't a problem because there's no games at all, but that's another issue entirely.
For now.
Steam, the source engine (Half-life, portal, team fortress series and others) and steam tools are coming to linux soon.
That means that more and more games that people are used to on windows will be able to work easily on linux as well.
I would think that it would be a bigger insult to the people who fought and died for the freedom of you and your countrymen if you were to deny that very freedom to your countrymen in the name of those who fought for it.
As long as Open Office defaults to normal menu's instead of a retarded ribbon? I know which one I will keep using.
From my perspective, if all you need to do is surf, write emails and do some light word processing, then Ubuntu is far and away a better choice than windows 7.
I chose to dual boot ubuntu and windows 7 for the following reasons:
It cost me nothing because I had 10 win7 licenses from an MSDN subscription paid for by my previous employer.
I like to play video games, windows has more of them, and wine is generally a painful experience when it does work.
I need to keep my Visual Studio/C#/ASP.net skills fresh in case I need to find a new job and can't find a local java position quickly enough.
And you|they have the right to freely express that objection.
But they do not have the right to restrict the free expression of others.
That would be how it should work if patents were allowed for software.
But that is not how it does currently work.
Few software patents are on "this method" of doing something, but rather on "a method" (any method).
Personally, I consider that software is the only area where both copyright and patents cover the same material.
It should be one or the other, and I favor copyright.
The freedom of expression supersedes the freedom to not be offended. You can choose to be offended by any arbitrary expression, that does not allow you to restrict another persons freedom of expression arbitrarily.
Expression may only be legitimately restricted when it infringes on a greater freedom. Your freedom of religion ends when it means your children are denied the right to life by withholding medical care or being exposed to venomous snakes.
Your freedom of expression likewise ends only where it may be held to deliberately incite actual harm to others, libel and slander (when properly implemented) are examples of this.
I find the very existence of religion to be offensive, by your rational, all religion should be banned because of this.
The BBC?
Maybe. But it looks more and more like inflation will lead to a cold lonely death.
Infinity times 0 is still 0. The space shuttles engine is reusable 0 times without a complete and total dis-assembly and rebuild.
It can be infinitely more reusable and still not be reusable.
Kinky... ;)
Steam and source engine games are coming to linux (native, no wine required) "soon". I don't know if that means this year or later.
Also works for lawyers.
For games you can also use recorded sounds run through a random or fractal filter that changes them somewhat for different events.
I hate to brake this to you, but the iPhone is pretty bad at being a UMPC, and it is even worse at being an phone.
No it isn't. That you think so just shows how much you still have left to learn.
I am not a high end programmer either. But I have two degrees on the subject and have been working professionally in the field for years, including optimization and parallelization.
Many algorithms just won't have much improvement with multi-threading.
Many will even perform more poorly due to data contention and the overhead of context switches and creating threads.
Many algorithms just can not be converted to a format that will work within the restrictions of GPGPU computing at all.
The stream architecture of modern GPU's work radically differently than a conventional CPU.
It is not as simple as scaling conventional multi-threading up to thousands of threads.
Certain things that you are used to doing on a normal processor have an insane cost in GPU hardware.
For instance, the if statement. Until recently OpenCL and CUDA didn't allow branching. Now they do, but they incur such a huge penalty in cycles that it just isn't worth it.
yes. When I get the chance to play with my friends we still fire up Starcraft or TacOps over any of the newer titles.
;)
I only got two hits in google for "I was worng".