PV for mass power generation IS a retarded idea. But solar thermal power is not. Solar heat engines can use a heat reservoir to run 24/7 and with a sufficient reservoir can have a reserve for a few days of bad weather. That right there eliminates your straw man global power grid. You would only continent spanning power grids. Every continent except Europe has vast uninhabited desert regions that can support large solar arrays, And Europe is a relatively short distance from Saharan Africa. Solar thermal can use the same steam cycle, turbines and generators that nuclear, coal and other traditional power plants do. We already have the mass produced components and expertise for the vast majority of a global deployment of solar thermal. The only remotely exotic aspect is thermal storage.
We can provide the same power as US consumption to every person on earth with solar thermal if we had to. We can also supplement the solar grid with modern clean safe efficient feeder nuclear reactors in the hostile frigid areas. There really isn't any reason we can not have global clean energy abundance in a few decades.
Hydroelectric power is an environmental disaster that is currently causing the extinction of many river fish in North America.
Wind power is unreliable, producing power spikes in some weather or no power in some weather. It can not be relied upon as a principal source of power.
Awesome idea, we called it XHTML2 before it was tossed in the garbage for a shiny new video tag and a canvas that re implements the qbasic drawing interface of the early 1980s.
I'm sorry. The feature you are looking for is similar to XML namespaces (though such namespaces were much more verbose). A feature found in the XHTML2 standard that was rejected by the standards body because html5 went all the way to 5.
I know. At this point I would seriously consider junking the whole steaming pile and writing my own. Not that it would ever be used by anyone. The steaming pile has already reached critical mass.
No. In parts of stone county, MS phone service is available but varies between light static to drowned in static will not allow dialup to carry data. I frequently called it a 3rd world county when I lived there.
You are just spoiled by modern technology. You could reach your FAP limit with pixelated pinup jpegs at 36kbps, it just took a little longer than with hardcore hd live video streaming on a multi-megabit connection.
To counter that assertion, when a senior developer is asked if he knows some specific hot new tech should be able to say: "no, but I will next week". Once you know the basics and have experience applying them, picking up something new is fast and easy compared to the amount of time it is going to take to get a fresh grad up to speed on how things actually work.
Hypothetically, I would agree with you. In practice, it does not work that way. The problem is that many people believe there is competition, that religion answers all questions, that the reality described by science is heretical, and that science must be destroyed in order to save religion. I deal with these people a lot, and it has made me very jaded when it comes to the science vs religion issue.
I am much happier being a rational and ethical atheist without the conflicts of the religion I was born into. A "religion of peace and compassion" that actively promotes denial of all forms of pleasure, brain washing, oppression, torture, unquestioning subservience, forced conversion, kidnapping, slavery, rape, murder, genocide and the extermination of all life on earth. I may have been happier if I had accepted that, but I would rather be a free good man than a hypocritical evil supplicant. Belief in the existence or non-existence of god is a personal matter, accepting an evil religion, even if you are fooled by its masquerade of civility, is never a good thing.
He lied about having an operating system for sale, sold it for millions, then went and bought one from a friend for $50k to "help him through a rough spot". Violating anti-trust laws is bad. Manipulating and stabbing your friends in the back is evil.
Bill Gates is very intelligent. He wrote significant parts of Microsoft first set of products, he can code (or at least he could in the early 80s). In business he was a deceitful backstabbing manipulative bastard. And now his is spending billions on his philanthropy. I won't dismiss that Gates is/was an ass, but he does deserve some credit.
A: Total US military spending does not go towards the wars. The cost for the wars directly is a less than $200 million a day. Even in a time of relative peace, we would still need provide funding for military readiness.
In the case of things useful to compare, you should note that the actual daily cost of the wars is a lot closer to 200 million (US), not several billion.
If there is anyone who can turn angry birds into a 90 minute movie starring Meatloaf and a room full of Ukrainian prostitutes, it is Uwe Boll. It will be a spectacular success, if only due to German tax shelter laws concerning the funding of a failed movie.
An arm tablet/netbook can probably have a per unit production cost of under $100 if they opt for a relatively small screen and battery. It is definitely a lot cheaper than intel for similar power and endurance.
You're right. There is no threat. Not right now, because the internet doesn't belong to anyone, hurting people on the internet would serve no military goal, bring down no installations or cause nuclear wars. But the moment, the internet becomes, state property or state regulated, like what the US is trying to do, then you get a whole slew of opportunities to explore.
People keep bringing up that Iran bit and their centrifuges, my question is this, why do they have an internet connection?
They were not connected to the internet, they were infected by USB drives.
Were their plans for nuclear bombs downloaded from the internet?
Do other countries do that? Does the US connect it's F-16s and drones to the internet, and send hourly tweets?
South Korea has semi autonomous internet enabled gun turrets in select banks to replace on site guards. Is that close enough?
Even if they need to communicate from one end of the country to another, wouldn't any military use it's own communications network?
If they don't, well, gamers have an expression for this: EPIC FAIL!
And? He can also abuse the other prisoners. Prisoners abuse each other, hell the institutionalized abuse each other as well. You can try to limit it, but you can not prevent it completely unless everyone is kept in solitary confinement.
I wish I could provide citations, but the bulk of those comments have been deleted and I wasn't in a crusading frame of mind to get screen captures. You may be an exception, but every tea partier that I have interacted with online and even in person does not care about issues, only about hating everyone who isn't a rich white protestant heterosexual in a traditional family role.
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Those continents have there own sunny deserts. Just like every continent except Europe.
Solar thermal solves that problem. It requires the "exotic" material known as steel with a little bit of glass and aluminum.
PV for mass power generation IS a retarded idea. But solar thermal power is not. Solar heat engines can use a heat reservoir to run 24/7 and with a sufficient reservoir can have a reserve for a few days of bad weather. That right there eliminates your straw man global power grid. You would only continent spanning power grids. Every continent except Europe has vast uninhabited desert regions that can support large solar arrays, And Europe is a relatively short distance from Saharan Africa. Solar thermal can use the same steam cycle, turbines and generators that nuclear, coal and other traditional power plants do. We already have the mass produced components and expertise for the vast majority of a global deployment of solar thermal. The only remotely exotic aspect is thermal storage.
We can provide the same power as US consumption to every person on earth with solar thermal if we had to. We can also supplement the solar grid with modern clean safe efficient feeder nuclear reactors in the hostile frigid areas. There really isn't any reason we can not have global clean energy abundance in a few decades.
Hydroelectric power is an environmental disaster that is currently causing the extinction of many river fish in North America.
Wind power is unreliable, producing power spikes in some weather or no power in some weather. It can not be relied upon as a principal source of power.
Other than that, I agree with you.
Awesome idea, we called it XHTML2 before it was tossed in the garbage for a shiny new video tag and a canvas that re implements the qbasic drawing interface of the early 1980s.
You know enough to escape your braces.
I'm sorry. The feature you are looking for is similar to XML namespaces (though such namespaces were much more verbose). A feature found in the XHTML2 standard that was rejected by the standards body because html5 went all the way to 5.
I know. At this point I would seriously consider junking the whole steaming pile and writing my own. Not that it would ever be used by anyone. The steaming pile has already reached critical mass.
No. In parts of stone county, MS phone service is available but varies between light static to drowned in static will not allow dialup to carry data. I frequently called it a 3rd world county when I lived there.
You are just spoiled by modern technology. You could reach your FAP limit with pixelated pinup jpegs at 36kbps, it just took a little longer than with hardcore hd live video streaming on a multi-megabit connection.
Right.
You only have three options when there isn't a ready made solution for your requirements.
Conform your requirements to the available proprietary software, develop it from scratch, or build on the work of an existing near solution.
One of these things is not like the others.
One of these things is not the same.
One of these things means you don't meet your original requirements and you have to deliver something that is less than what is asked wanted.
To counter that assertion, when a senior developer is asked if he knows some specific hot new tech should be able to say: "no, but I will next week". Once you know the basics and have experience applying them, picking up something new is fast and easy compared to the amount of time it is going to take to get a fresh grad up to speed on how things actually work.
Hypothetically, I would agree with you. In practice, it does not work that way. The problem is that many people believe there is competition, that religion answers all questions, that the reality described by science is heretical, and that science must be destroyed in order to save religion. I deal with these people a lot, and it has made me very jaded when it comes to the science vs religion issue.
I am much happier being a rational and ethical atheist without the conflicts of the religion I was born into. A "religion of peace and compassion" that actively promotes denial of all forms of pleasure, brain washing, oppression, torture, unquestioning subservience, forced conversion, kidnapping, slavery, rape, murder, genocide and the extermination of all life on earth. I may have been happier if I had accepted that, but I would rather be a free good man than a hypocritical evil supplicant. Belief in the existence or non-existence of god is a personal matter, accepting an evil religion, even if you are fooled by its masquerade of civility, is never a good thing.
What? In what way can you even begin to interpret what I said in that way?
He lied about having an operating system for sale, sold it for millions, then went and bought one from a friend for $50k to "help him through a rough spot". Violating anti-trust laws is bad. Manipulating and stabbing your friends in the back is evil.
Bill Gates is very intelligent. He wrote significant parts of Microsoft first set of products, he can code (or at least he could in the early 80s). In business he was a deceitful backstabbing manipulative bastard. And now his is spending billions on his philanthropy. I won't dismiss that Gates is/was an ass, but he does deserve some credit.
A: Total US military spending does not go towards the wars. The cost for the wars directly is a less than $200 million a day. Even in a time of relative peace, we would still need provide funding for military readiness.
In the case of things useful to compare, you should note that the actual daily cost of the wars is a lot closer to 200 million (US), not several billion.
If there is anyone who can turn angry birds into a 90 minute movie starring Meatloaf and a room full of Ukrainian prostitutes, it is Uwe Boll. It will be a spectacular success, if only due to German tax shelter laws concerning the funding of a failed movie.
An arm tablet/netbook can probably have a per unit production cost of under $100 if they opt for a relatively small screen and battery. It is definitely a lot cheaper than intel for similar power and endurance.
It very much removed, but it was both entertaining and technically accurate.
You're right. There is no threat. Not right now, because the internet doesn't belong to anyone, hurting people on the internet would serve no military goal, bring down no installations or cause nuclear wars. But the moment, the internet becomes, state property or state regulated, like what the US is trying to do, then you get a whole slew of opportunities to explore.
People keep bringing up that Iran bit and their centrifuges, my question is this, why do they have an internet connection?
They were not connected to the internet, they were infected by USB drives.
Were their plans for nuclear bombs downloaded from the internet?
Do other countries do that? Does the US connect it's F-16s and drones to the internet, and send hourly tweets?
South Korea has semi autonomous internet enabled gun turrets in select banks to replace on site guards. Is that close enough?
Even if they need to communicate from one end of the country to another, wouldn't any military use it's own communications network?
If they don't, well, gamers have an expression for this: EPIC FAIL!
Have you seen the chess match between Kai and the prince of fire in LEXX?
And? He can also abuse the other prisoners. Prisoners abuse each other, hell the institutionalized abuse each other as well. You can try to limit it, but you can not prevent it completely unless everyone is kept in solitary confinement.
I wish I could provide citations, but the bulk of those comments have been deleted and I wasn't in a crusading frame of mind to get screen captures. You may be an exception, but every tea partier that I have interacted with online and even in person does not care about issues, only about hating everyone who isn't a rich white protestant heterosexual in a traditional family role.