Why should the government buy solar cells for power plants but people have to pay for them directly for their roofs?
What I am suggesting here is that INSTEAD of the centralized power plants we instead GIVE solar for people's roofs.
We don't even need to give the panels. Just give people the box that lets them plug a panel into the home and install it. Then they can decide if they want to buy a panel and put it in.
If it just canceled all the day time power use of all the residences that would be significant. Yes, that isn't their peak power usage. But they do use power then and if you did this they would use almost none.
Industry uses most of its power during the day. Well, residences use most when they come back from work. So the power can shift there.
once the system is in place for everyone to put solar on their roof with no hassle, I think you'll find more people doing it.
In regards to cars, should I bother showing you the videos on youtube of people beating those keys? Its old hat at this point.
As to killswitches in the smartphone.... my only concern is that "I" am the only one able to trigger it.
Not Apple. Not the phone company. Not the Federal government.
My phone. If you set it up so that only "I" can kill it. I'm happy with it. If you're given that power to some external agency that didn't buy or pay for my phone then what right do they have to have that kind of power over my phone?
You lose a lot of that efficiency in the rest of the system.
Panels on your house don't need hundreds of miles of cable. They don't need big transformer stations. They don't need the grid itself. There is so much cost added and efficiency lost in the transmission that you really are playing a zero sum game.
And if you supply even a SMALL amount of power locally it adds up.
It doesn't need to be and shouldn't be centralized.
I can't power my home with a personal coal power plant or power my home with a personal nuclear power plant. But I CAN power my home with a personal solar array or wind mill or whatever. Renewable power should be decentralized.
Rather then pushing these big renewable plants, instead give home owners a machine that lets they use locally sourced power in their home electrical grid. So the system will take from local power before it draws from the grid.
This makes more sense for a lot of reasons.
1. The land required for renewable energy is huge. But if everyone uses a little of their roof space then its no big deal. And they don't need to supplant ALL energy consumption just some of it.
2. You don't waste energy in transmission or over supply. The point should be to have homes be more self sufficient so they don't need as much power from the grid. Not to supply the grid with their power. That isn't economical. Rather simply have people need less because they produce some of their own power.
3. Personally sourced power is largely immune to price fixing, political blackmail, and other attempts to control people through energy supply. This is because the power is supplied by solar cells and other similar things that can be bought from many sources. The issue with the Russian pipeline is really only the best known example. There are many examples on a daily basis all over the world.
4. Nothing is as likely to get renewable energy installed and maintained then personal participation in it. The world is littered with failed green energy projects on all continents. But the solar power cells on people's roofs... those work. Those are maintained.
etc...
It shouldn't be centralized. Renewable energy should be decentralized.
Yes, but the TYPE of communication will be uniform.
What are they doing in a DDOS attack? The pattern of communication has to be distinct. Otherwise, you wouldn't know it was a DDOS attack. You might just think you're really popular right now.
I'm guessing all the systems are doing the exact same thing. So... possibly filter that action out or switch things around some how.
I've seen some sites go to proxy sites when they get hit with a DDOS attack. They simply unlink their old domain and then switch to a different one.
its crude and people that are clueless won't find the site. BUT everyone in the know should get through just fine.
They find searches based on what people click on when they search things.
If chinese language users in the filtered system can't see those links then they will have a lower rank if that search system is combined with the unfiltered system.
Therefore, the real solution is to compartmentalize the two lists rather then combining them.
Why does it always take a team of tech to manually block the spamming IP numbers? Why isn't this automated? When this sort of flooding action takes place it should be pretty obvious... respond.
But if it was understood that windows apps worked on phones as well as desktops the program coders would release software with multiple interfaces. A touch interface is VERY easy to add to a program. You just redo some menus with big idiot buttons.
The trick is getting it to run at all. Not the interface.
The ability to run most programs that work in windows is not diminished by the inability to run the latest high performance demanding program that many computers will have a hard time delivering smoothly.
In short, not being able to outright match the modern desktop blow for blow is not a reason to never attempt to build cross compatibility into the phone's OS.
There are literally tens of thousands of very sophisticated programs that worked under windows 95. Business applications.
Many of them have been replaced with newer versions mostly because their interfaces look dated now. As to functionality they were often as good as modern applications or in some cases superior.
There is an incredible depth of content in legacy software. Packages that were refined over decades by industry specific professionals.
mining an asteroid or comet is one thing... but the moon? Good luck. Maybe if you kept your activities to the dark side and left even that as subsurface?
1. I'm aware, but that's a minor issue when put against the outright inability to run the software on such platforms. People will put up with that sort of thing if the know you're working on it.
2. Performance is only reasonable to the extent that the software is useable. No one will expect the same speed. It just needs to be reasonable. Furthermore, some applications will be understood to not be good ideas on the platform. For example, using a modern version of photoshop, opening a 16 gig photo file, and then applying a complicated filter will likely take FOREVER to process if it works at all. No one will fault the platform for that.
Most of the software for windows doesn't gobble those kind of resources. Don't tell me I can't have emulation because the phone can't match the desktop blow for blow.
3. We're talking about emulation here. The application will have access to an emulation layer.
Come now... stop trying to think of reasons why this won't work and think for just one second how it would work.
I'm not asking to have my PC get gimped to the interface of a tablet.
I'm asking to have access to my legacy desktop applications on my phone.
MS never did that.
MS's lock is Windows. That is their draw. That is why people come back.
Who gives a shit about some new OS that isn't compatible with anything? That's fucking stupid. That's more useless then PalmOS.
Give me access to windows on my phone. It can be slow. Make it windows 95 for all I care. Ideally we'd like per application emulation since who wants to actually deal with the OS. What we want is our programs.
If I can run desktop apps on my phone, that is very powerful. But they have to be actual desktop apps. Not neutered metro freaks.
In short. DO NOT touch the PC environment. That is not what I'm asking you to touch. Leave it the fuck alone. Fix the phone. Do that. Back away from the PC.
If the phone's CPU could emulate a desktop environment of 15 years ago that would be just fine. Most of the increased CPU power for modern applications is just fluff anyway. Anyone want to pretend that applications from 15 years ago weren't capable of the same complexity and sophistication as today? They were much more efficient and less pretty. That's about the only relevant difference. Yes, there are always new features in the new product. But most of them are either never used or could have been implemented in the older software with no performance hit.
that it takes the linux open source community to port windows programs to smart phones.
We've been asking for this from MS for EVER. MS keeps worrying about how to win the smartphone war...
They're morons. They'd win instantly if they allowed windows apps to run on the windows phones. Yes yes... there are problems. None of them are impossible to solve. Do it or pay someone to do it.
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Why should the government buy solar cells for power plants but people have to pay for them directly for their roofs?
What I am suggesting here is that INSTEAD of the centralized power plants we instead GIVE solar for people's roofs.
We don't even need to give the panels. Just give people the box that lets them plug a panel into the home and install it. Then they can decide if they want to buy a panel and put it in.
If it just canceled all the day time power use of all the residences that would be significant. Yes, that isn't their peak power usage. But they do use power then and if you did this they would use almost none.
Industry uses most of its power during the day. Well, residences use most when they come back from work. So the power can shift there.
once the system is in place for everyone to put solar on their roof with no hassle, I think you'll find more people doing it.
If its their wind mill that they put by their home they might be fine with it.
For one thing, it could be one they bought to go with their home. Possibly it would look like one of those old dutch windmills.
The ones used by the wind farms are ugly and industrial. If you had to sell them to home owners they might look very different.
In regards to cars, should I bother showing you the videos on youtube of people beating those keys? Its old hat at this point.
As to killswitches in the smartphone.... my only concern is that "I" am the only one able to trigger it.
Not Apple.
Not the phone company.
Not the Federal government.
My phone. If you set it up so that only "I" can kill it. I'm happy with it. If you're given that power to some external agency that didn't buy or pay for my phone then what right do they have to have that kind of power over my phone?
So... there you go.
Comply with that or this is creepy bullshit.
Why not laptops?
Why not cars?
Why not any of a thousand things that are stolen all the time.
I wouldn't mind this as much in cars or laptops. I'm pretty sure I could disable it if I wanted. But in a smartphone? How?
This whole thing gives me the creeps.
You lose a lot of that efficiency in the rest of the system.
Panels on your house don't need hundreds of miles of cable. They don't need big transformer stations. They don't need the grid itself. There is so much cost added and efficiency lost in the transmission that you really are playing a zero sum game.
And if you supply even a SMALL amount of power locally it adds up.
It doesn't need to be and shouldn't be centralized.
I can't power my home with a personal coal power plant or power my home with a personal nuclear power plant. But I CAN power my home with a personal solar array or wind mill or whatever. Renewable power should be decentralized.
Rather then pushing these big renewable plants, instead give home owners a machine that lets they use locally sourced power in their home electrical grid. So the system will take from local power before it draws from the grid.
This makes more sense for a lot of reasons.
1. The land required for renewable energy is huge. But if everyone uses a little of their roof space then its no big deal. And they don't need to supplant ALL energy consumption just some of it.
2. You don't waste energy in transmission or over supply. The point should be to have homes be more self sufficient so they don't need as much power from the grid. Not to supply the grid with their power. That isn't economical. Rather simply have people need less because they produce some of their own power.
3. Personally sourced power is largely immune to price fixing, political blackmail, and other attempts to control people through energy supply. This is because the power is supplied by solar cells and other similar things that can be bought from many sources. The issue with the Russian pipeline is really only the best known example. There are many examples on a daily basis all over the world.
4. Nothing is as likely to get renewable energy installed and maintained then personal participation in it. The world is littered with failed green energy projects on all continents. But the solar power cells on people's roofs... those work. Those are maintained.
etc...
It shouldn't be centralized. Renewable energy should be decentralized.
well all the search engines do that so I don't see how...
Been here for awhile... :)
Yes, but the TYPE of communication will be uniform.
What are they doing in a DDOS attack? The pattern of communication has to be distinct. Otherwise, you wouldn't know it was a DDOS attack. You might just think you're really popular right now.
I'm guessing all the systems are doing the exact same thing. So... possibly filter that action out or switch things around some how.
I've seen some sites go to proxy sites when they get hit with a DDOS attack. They simply unlink their old domain and then switch to a different one.
its crude and people that are clueless won't find the site. BUT everyone in the know should get through just fine.
They find searches based on what people click on when they search things.
If chinese language users in the filtered system can't see those links then they will have a lower rank if that search system is combined with the unfiltered system.
Therefore, the real solution is to compartmentalize the two lists rather then combining them.
Your billing rates, salary, etc were negotiated under the assumption that bug fixing would be on company time.
What is more, the contract likely has no provision stating otherwise.
As such, you can suggest that he renegotiate the contract or you can continue with the current contract.
Do not give him anything for free.
I wouldn't really care... and neither should the city or anyone else.
Its marginal.
There has to be some sort of pattern. It can't be entirely random.
Doesn't really sound worth the effort.
And of course... screw the beta.
Why does it always take a team of tech to manually block the spamming IP numbers? Why isn't this automated? When this sort of flooding action takes place it should be pretty obvious... respond.
impose sanctions on US exports...
don't be silly... its not the UN I'm worried about but censure from its member states... which screwing with the moon could easily bring about.
I didn't say the interface would be pretty.
But if it was understood that windows apps worked on phones as well as desktops the program coders would release software with multiple interfaces. A touch interface is VERY easy to add to a program. You just redo some menus with big idiot buttons.
The trick is getting it to run at all. Not the interface.
The ability to run most programs that work in windows is not diminished by the inability to run the latest high performance demanding program that many computers will have a hard time delivering smoothly.
In short, not being able to outright match the modern desktop blow for blow is not a reason to never attempt to build cross compatibility into the phone's OS.
Come now.
Corporate database software for one.
There are literally tens of thousands of very sophisticated programs that worked under windows 95. Business applications.
Many of them have been replaced with newer versions mostly because their interfaces look dated now. As to functionality they were often as good as modern applications or in some cases superior.
There is an incredible depth of content in legacy software. Packages that were refined over decades by industry specific professionals.
mining an asteroid or comet is one thing... but the moon? Good luck. Maybe if you kept your activities to the dark side and left even that as subsurface?
1. I'm aware, but that's a minor issue when put against the outright inability to run the software on such platforms. People will put up with that sort of thing if the know you're working on it.
2. Performance is only reasonable to the extent that the software is useable. No one will expect the same speed. It just needs to be reasonable. Furthermore, some applications will be understood to not be good ideas on the platform. For example, using a modern version of photoshop, opening a 16 gig photo file, and then applying a complicated filter will likely take FOREVER to process if it works at all. No one will fault the platform for that.
Most of the software for windows doesn't gobble those kind of resources. Don't tell me I can't have emulation because the phone can't match the desktop blow for blow.
3. We're talking about emulation here. The application will have access to an emulation layer.
Come now... stop trying to think of reasons why this won't work and think for just one second how it would work.
I don't see how you think wine is MS's idea at all... they don't appear involved.
I'm not asking to have my PC get gimped to the interface of a tablet.
I'm asking to have access to my legacy desktop applications on my phone.
MS never did that.
MS's lock is Windows. That is their draw. That is why people come back.
Who gives a shit about some new OS that isn't compatible with anything? That's fucking stupid. That's more useless then PalmOS.
Give me access to windows on my phone. It can be slow. Make it windows 95 for all I care. Ideally we'd like per application emulation since who wants to actually deal with the OS. What we want is our programs.
If I can run desktop apps on my phone, that is very powerful. But they have to be actual desktop apps. Not neutered metro freaks.
In short. DO NOT touch the PC environment. That is not what I'm asking you to touch. Leave it the fuck alone. Fix the phone. Do that. Back away from the PC.
Am I not being clear?
That's just goal post moving.
If the phone's CPU could emulate a desktop environment of 15 years ago that would be just fine. Most of the increased CPU power for modern applications is just fluff anyway. Anyone want to pretend that applications from 15 years ago weren't capable of the same complexity and sophistication as today? They were much more efficient and less pretty. That's about the only relevant difference. Yes, there are always new features in the new product. But most of them are either never used or could have been implemented in the older software with no performance hit.
that it takes the linux open source community to port windows programs to smart phones.
We've been asking for this from MS for EVER. MS keeps worrying about how to win the smartphone war...
They're morons. They'd win instantly if they allowed windows apps to run on the windows phones. Yes yes... there are problems. None of them are impossible to solve. Do it or pay someone to do it.