(Really, China won't have anything resembling control of this stuff, and even if they did have absolute control of a couple percentage points of the electric generation infrastructure, so what?)
And at some point, the people of China will go after the leaders. 300 million people upset that they are being left behind is quite a problem to deal with.
If you are going to go in that direction, you should go full out and make it clear that the white-man used the cheap trinkets and goods as a pretext to make himself feel better about whatever he did next to take control of said lands.
The shadow factories don't produce identical items, they produce lower quality knockoffs. Take a look around a site like DealExtreme if you really think the products are identical.
Anyway, backing out the averages (for the U.S. as a whole) for residential, commercial and industrial, average monthly usage is (about) 116 billion kilowatt hours for residential, 111 billion kilowatt hours for commercial, and 85 billion kilowatt hours for industrial.
The article doesn't say so, but the standard uses Punycode, which is pretty much equivalent to UTF-8 and such (in that it encodes some Unicode codepoints in a specific way).
There is something hilarious about Neal Stephenson complaining about people lacking affinity for details, I have enjoyed each of his books, but in reading them, it is clear that he likes to absolutely drown in details (So his perspective is probably at the very extreme). I think the new Star Wars films turned out the way they did because George Lucas was actually able to achieve his visions for them, rather than having to work inside some limitations (so the glitz and lack of 'geek out moments' comes from him, not from the option to put the geek out material in other mediums, he could do 15 minute CGI battle scenes, so there was no need to fill things out with a cheap shop of some guys standing around in foam rubber).
Paul Graham has a habit of forming an opinion based on his life experience and then writing a persuasive essay about that opinion, using an informative tone to bamboozle the reader. Really, there are lots of reasons people are popular or not, and there are plenty of popular sitting at his 'A' table that are geeks or smart or whatever (looking back, I sure wasn't one of those people, but I can think of many who where...).
The other article just complains about the liberal agenda present in the educational system (I'm paraphrasing a bit, but that does seem to be the ax the author is grinding), without actually backing up any of the mournful wailing it does about the state of science education in the United States (why are all those graduate students coming here?).
Reader 9 absolutely turned the bus around. The only real issue is that instead of sane incremental updates, the updates often come in the form of a full installer for the new version, which gets dumped into a folder in the install directory (this isn't a huge thing given the size of hard drives, but it sort of sucks when you are using a modem).
I have the occasional crash with Firefox 3 (on XP), but I launched the current session on September 26. I've used it a fair bit pretty much everyday since then.
I think you are right about flash, I use Flashblock (not really for stability, but to stop poorly written ads from eating a core, and to cut down on bandwidth, I have a slow connection).
It astonishes me how frequently I see behavior where it is clear the driver isn't even looking 30 feet in front of them (or so it seems, they certainly aren't paying much attention 10 seconds ahead of themselves).
Do you think attempting to turn left out of the through lane would be safer?
That some accidents are avoided doesn't mean they all will be (and really, getting rear ended is sort of a terrible thing to call an accident, someone stupided right into the back of your car).
Kinetic energy is also a factor; at 80 mph, your car has about 30% more energy than at 70 (energy you need to get rid of during a braking maneuver). At 90, it is 65% more energy than at 70. At 100, it is 104% more energy.
Of course, a car going 70 also has 96% more energy than a car going 50 mph, but designing a braking system that works well at 60 or 70 takes care of those lower speeds without making longer trips excessively long (over 300 miles, 90 mph only saves about 1 hour, which is nice, but the 4.3 hours at 70 isn't that bad).
And then on the other hand, neither of those devices is particularly worth using anymore (a bottom end 3.5 inch hdd will have more recent interfaces, use less power, have more storage and be faster, a craptactular DVD drive won't take forever and a day to do everything).
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No, no, it's obviously because he is old.
Wait, who are you implying is the victim here?
(Really, China won't have anything resembling control of this stuff, and even if they did have absolute control of a couple percentage points of the electric generation infrastructure, so what?)
And at some point, the people of China will go after the leaders. 300 million people upset that they are being left behind is quite a problem to deal with.
If you are going to go in that direction, you should go full out and make it clear that the white-man used the cheap trinkets and goods as a pretext to make himself feel better about whatever he did next to take control of said lands.
The shadow factories don't produce identical items, they produce lower quality knockoffs. Take a look around a site like DealExtreme if you really think the products are identical.
The numbers are sort of available here:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/esr/table5.html
(There might be a better page available here, I didn't look much:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/fuelelectric.html
)
Anyway, backing out the averages (for the U.S. as a whole) for residential, commercial and industrial, average monthly usage is (about) 116 billion kilowatt hours for residential, 111 billion kilowatt hours for commercial, and 85 billion kilowatt hours for industrial.
The article doesn't say so, but the standard uses Punycode, which is pretty much equivalent to UTF-8 and such (in that it encodes some Unicode codepoints in a specific way).
Well, after one of the heuristics in the scanner notes the stupid call to 'segfault()' and replaces it with something benign, no, it won't crash.
Because the crapware vendor pays them $10 to include the crapware and people inevitably buy the computer that is $5 cheaper.
I think you probably is.
I see your rant and raise you a speedo.
The second article, minus the paywall:
http://www.afa.org/EdOp/edop_08-08-08.asp
There is something hilarious about Neal Stephenson complaining about people lacking affinity for details, I have enjoyed each of his books, but in reading them, it is clear that he likes to absolutely drown in details (So his perspective is probably at the very extreme). I think the new Star Wars films turned out the way they did because George Lucas was actually able to achieve his visions for them, rather than having to work inside some limitations (so the glitz and lack of 'geek out moments' comes from him, not from the option to put the geek out material in other mediums, he could do 15 minute CGI battle scenes, so there was no need to fill things out with a cheap shop of some guys standing around in foam rubber).
Paul Graham has a habit of forming an opinion based on his life experience and then writing a persuasive essay about that opinion, using an informative tone to bamboozle the reader. Really, there are lots of reasons people are popular or not, and there are plenty of popular sitting at his 'A' table that are geeks or smart or whatever (looking back, I sure wasn't one of those people, but I can think of many who where...).
The other article just complains about the liberal agenda present in the educational system (I'm paraphrasing a bit, but that does seem to be the ax the author is grinding), without actually backing up any of the mournful wailing it does about the state of science education in the United States (why are all those graduate students coming here?).
Reader 9 absolutely turned the bus around. The only real issue is that instead of sane incremental updates, the updates often come in the form of a full installer for the new version, which gets dumped into a folder in the install directory (this isn't a huge thing given the size of hard drives, but it sort of sucks when you are using a modem).
(Disclaimer - I'm not a doctor, but I'm related to a GP, and I did stay in a hotel last night)
Still, it really isn't a good thing that bullies end up as police officers and guards in jails and prisons.
Except maybe inputting equations into MS Word.
I have the occasional crash with Firefox 3 (on XP), but I launched the current session on September 26. I've used it a fair bit pretty much everyday since then.
I think you are right about flash, I use Flashblock (not really for stability, but to stop poorly written ads from eating a core, and to cut down on bandwidth, I have a slow connection).
It astonishes me how frequently I see behavior where it is clear the driver isn't even looking 30 feet in front of them (or so it seems, they certainly aren't paying much attention 10 seconds ahead of themselves).
Do you think attempting to turn left out of the through lane would be safer?
That some accidents are avoided doesn't mean they all will be (and really, getting rear ended is sort of a terrible thing to call an accident, someone stupided right into the back of your car).
Kinetic energy is also a factor; at 80 mph, your car has about 30% more energy than at 70 (energy you need to get rid of during a braking maneuver). At 90, it is 65% more energy than at 70. At 100, it is 104% more energy.
Of course, a car going 70 also has 96% more energy than a car going 50 mph, but designing a braking system that works well at 60 or 70 takes care of those lower speeds without making longer trips excessively long (over 300 miles, 90 mph only saves about 1 hour, which is nice, but the 4.3 hours at 70 isn't that bad).
Yeah well, neither does forgetting it.
Ever try turning notifications off? If you can, it is a nice way to work.
Over time, the containment vessel will eventually become radioactive. The ratio of energy to waste should be pretty excellent though.
You would have to be quite the terrific lawyer to see that jump (especially inside a decade or whatever).
To an extent, they are talking about the need for companies to offer 6 figure salaries for scientists.
And then on the other hand, neither of those devices is particularly worth using anymore (a bottom end 3.5 inch hdd will have more recent interfaces, use less power, have more storage and be faster, a craptactular DVD drive won't take forever and a day to do everything).